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Date:      Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:14:12 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
Cc:        dever@getaclue.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.
Message-ID:  <3E10D344.8D824039@mindspring.com>
References:  <200212302236.gBUMar175586@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>

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Dave Hayes wrote:
> > Both are good and easily implemented solutions.  Now we come back to
> > trying to make people understand something forceably. :-)
> 
> This is an age old problem of course. If you manage to do this, you get
> programmable human robots. No more intellectual freedom. ;)


SPAM is a systems engineering problem.  No more or no less.

Human beings don't have the intellectual freedom to be able
to ignore gravity or inertia; so this make them robots?

If the SPAM enforcement was an emergent property of the system
used to communicate SPAM -- and other information -- then not
sending SPAM would be as natural as not walking down the street,
suspended six inches in the air.

-- Terry

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