The funniest part of that lawyer letter from Twitter to Facebook is “Via Electronic Mail and Federal Express”
Surprised they didn’t send it via CompuServe. Also the FedEx Corporation hasn’t had that name for like a quarter of a century.
The funniest part of that lawyer letter from Twitter to Facebook is “Via Electronic Mail and Federal Express”
Surprised they didn’t send it via CompuServe. Also the FedEx Corporation hasn’t had that name for like a quarter of a century.
Actually “FedEx” has been the official company name for longer now than “Federal Express”.
Oddly enough they’re using an abbreviation of an abbreviation often as well, “FDX”.
@thomasfuchs Lawyer here. That’s a pretty standard header, actually. The only oddity was “Federal Express” instead of “FedEx.”
At least in my line of work, we have contracts with most of the other companies we interact with that include “Notice” provisions requiring that messages be sent a certain way, e.g. “via email to xyz@domain.com with a copy to So-and-So via trackable carrier.” Including that header on the letter nerfs any argument that that the notice was not properly sent/received.
@JoshKagan I get that, it’s just funny to say “electronic mail” instead of email and to use a company name that hasn’t been in use for 29 years
@thomasfuchs Absolutely, and agree that it's funny. But that language — like a lot of things we lawyers say in letters like that one — is not intended for the recipient; it's performative and intended for a judge (or mediator, arbitrator, or similar) who is probably much older than you and me, and who actually responds well to that kind of language. And who possibly still gets their emails printed for them by an assistant every day.
@thomasfuchs FX/FDX is their IATA airline code (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_codes_(F)), so that's likely why they're using it so heavily
@JoshKagan “Sent via Pony Express”
@europlus “via solo cups and string”
@thomasfuchs surprised it wasn’t via Twitter DM to Zuck’s recently revived Twitter account and peppered with poo emoji. Or just in Musk’s timeline, upon further thought. I suppose the latter would have to change the header to “In the Nazi Bar and via Electronic Mail and Federal Express”. I wonder when they got rid of “Fax” and their “DX” address. Went down the latter’s rabbit hole and maybe it wasn’t in the US? Was like a private document delivery system used in legal and govt circles (mostly).
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