On 2003-12-25 17:42, "John C. Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/24/03 10:00 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> The subject is accurate for a problem of being bombarded with email, but >> that said, Lawrence does have a point. A subject could say, "bombarded with >> email, now in crisis" instead. Something for us to bear in mind for the >> future. > > And what happens when someone's e'rage is mail bombing someone because of a > rules loop. > > Uh - oh, Ashcroft's gonna get me for sure...wait, LUCKILY, I HAVE A BRAIN, > and can THINK critically...quickly, john realized that just like they have > been for millennia, most politicians are social retards who can't function > in any other part of society. > > Brandishing his copy of the U.S. Constitution, he made his escape. > > I'm really sorry that the rest of my country was clueless for so long, and > that now they're acting like kids with their first scraped knee. But can we > PLEASE keep in mind that *context* is everything, and that a word that is > completely unacceptable in one use is perfectly acceptable in another, and > that on a computer mailing list, 'bomb', and other words have non-evil > meanings? > > john The problem as I see it is that search engines have been programmed to alert on words such as *bomb* regardless of context. Thus thousands upon thousands of emails are *flagged* because of such words. Ths raises the level of unease and plays directly into the hands of thse who aim to create confusion. Dénes -- Dénes Bogsányi 133 Osburn Drive MACGREGOR ACT 2615 Australia Tel: +612 6254 3636 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: www.homepage.mac.com/denesbogsanyi -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
