I read in !emc-pstc that geor...@lexmark.com wrote (in <200202061341.IAA 00...@interlock2.lexmark.com>) about 'Compliance After Repairs in the Field', on Wed, 6 Feb 2002:
>Our products range in price from $50 to $10K. The low end units have no >service plan, only dispose and replace. All of the others can be >serviced by our authorized service centers, or by anyone else who wants >to hang out a "Service-R-Us" shingle. Good, but of course the legal eagles (vultures) have made it difficult. If you don't provide the 'shinglers' with full service data, you can be held responsible if one of them makes a dangerous repair through ignorance of something *that is not obvious*. (If you can convince the jury that is IS obvious, you are probably off the hook.) If you DO provide them with full information, your authorized service centres will complain. Never mind that what you are doing is clearly pro bono publico, it provides a source of fees, which is what matters. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk After swimming across the Hellespont, I felt like a Hero. PLEASE do NOT copy news posts to me by E-MAIL! ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
