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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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