Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal Trainer
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:11:58 -0800 chuq von rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:
On Friday, March 30, 2001, at 11:05 AM, Ron Echeverri wrote:
I disagree. Since we can't control spammers, perhaps we should simply control ourselves, and instead of complaining about the spam, we should simply delete it. I
If you go home at night and smell gas, do you solve the problem by deciding to smoke outside from now on? Or do you call a repairman to fix the gas leak?
Without questioning the boundaries of topic or religion on this one, there's also the argument that allowing spammers to control and alter our behaviour, and thereby granting them that power and influence over us is fundamentally WRONG and that doing so is tantamount to kowtowing to terrorists.
-- J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
At 03:29 PM 3/30/2001 -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
Without questioning the boundaries of topic or religion on this one, there's also the argument that allowing spammers to control and alter our behaviour, and thereby granting them that power and influence over us is fundamentally WRONG and that doing so is tantamount to kowtowing to terrorists.
I think putting bombs on airplanes is WRONG! Allowing terrorists to make us scared and control and alter our behaviour, thereby granting them power and influence over us is fundamentally WRONG! So, we should ignore them and ban all airport security systems because that's just part of caving in to the terrorists' demands...
reb
"If I ignore the future, maybe it will go away!"
Let's develop the analogy here...
An airport security system can be likened to restricting posts
to list subscribers. Sure, we all have to stand in line and
occasionally empty our pockets before we can get on a plane.
This is a minor inconvenience, but a lot less annoying than
getting blown out of the sky.
If only subscribers could post to the list, then people would have to take the extra two minutes to subscribe before they post their questions. They could easily unsub or select nomail after they get what they need. This doesn't seem like much of a "penalty" to get the great support (for a free product!) that this list provides.
While we're on the subject...spammers, hackers and terrorists should all be shot on sight.
- Dave
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Phydeaux wrote:
At 03:29 PM 3/30/2001 -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
Without questioning the boundaries of topic or religion on this one, there's also the argument that allowing spammers to control and alter our behaviour, and thereby granting them that power and influence over us is fundamentally WRONG and that doing so is tantamount to kowtowing to terrorists.
I think putting bombs on airplanes is WRONG! Allowing terrorists to make us scared and control and alter our behaviour, thereby granting them power and influence over us is fundamentally WRONG! So, we should ignore them and ban all airport security systems because that's just part of caving in to the terrorists' demands...
reb
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