Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:25:38 -0800 From: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: dever@getaclue.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. Message-ID: <200212302325.gBUNPh176368@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes: > SPAM is a systems engineering problem. No more or no less. Perhaps, but the existence of anti-spammer zealots is an age old human problem. Religious zealotry is a part of the human meme I guess. > Human beings don't have the intellectual freedom to be able > to ignore gravity or inertia; so this make them robots? You attempt to weaken the letter of my point without paying attention to the spirit of it. Attempting to force you to understand the spirit of it by responding to your attempt to whittle away at the letter is futile, you don't seem to understand it nor do I think you will even if I craft a logio-mathematical proof. See? =) > 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. Oh lord, let us woe the day that content is used as a means of determining which email is to be transported and which is not. ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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