I have been thinking
about the problem of how to write instructions to filter writers that give them
useful clues.
I suspect that it is
an impossible task and we should just accept the fact that there will be stupid
filters out there, not least because there are plenty of filters that are simply
AI programs with adled feedback mechanisms just blindly applying broken Bayesian
logic schemes.
The reson I say this
is because we have debated endlessly how to stop someone interpreting 'always
sign' in bad ways.
I have just been
looking at a filter rule that essentially says 'junk all mail that has
paypal.com in the from address'. OK you can certainly stop a lot of spam but
that does not make it an acceptable or useful rule for an
ISP.
Some people will
shoot themselves in the foot no matter what we do.
An even larger
number will hire a clueless AI bot to shoot them in the
face.
Lets just accept
this and move on. We are designing systems for people with a clue and Darwin can
take out the rest.
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