On 11 Jan 2005 at 0:15, Owain Sutton wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > On 10 Jan 2005 at 23:43, Owain Sutton wrote: > > > >>David W. Fenton wrote: > >> > >>>Also, keep in mind that this only happens once with each > >>>correspondent -- once you've been whitelisted, it's just like > >>>normal, old-fashioned email correspondence. > >> > >>You mean, just like if they hadn't bothered to challenge me in the > >>first place? > > > > No, if I didn't challenge you, it would mean you hadn't attempted to > > email me. > > Unless a virus-infected computer (or spammer) was using my address...
In that case, you have ever reason to ignore the challenge. > > I do *not* understand the hostility to the system itself -- it looks > > like your garden-variety Luddite response to me. > > I'm not a luddite at all, I don't think....I just don't want to use > email in the way that I'd have to drive if there was a guy carrying a > red flag in front of me. If the red flag guy is standing between you and the abyss, wouldn't that be preferable? In terms of email, that's what we're facing: a complete breakdown of the existing system to a state of unusability (when you have to review 200 emails a day classified as spam to make sure none are false positives, you might as well give up, since you'll inevitably make many mistakes, missing at least half the false positives, because there's just no way one can clearly evaluate 200 messages in the spam folder). The red flag is there to keep us from plunging over that abyss. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
