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From: "Scot Mcphee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 12:28 AM
Subject: [jdjlist] Re: Filtered Content
> a better way is just to let the human brain deal with words and their
> appropriateness in an adhoc way as it does all the time already in
everyday
> use for the past million years. instead of giving better tools to let one
> brain decide what's appropriate for other brains to parse, let the other
> brains parse and decide for themselves. i'm opposed to the whole idea of
> content filtering as a philosophical concept, the poor tools and
> misappropriate hits just make it more worse to the point of ludicrosity.
( a lot to say about that ... just for short )
The companies (having put a lot of money into these simple filters - most of
us probably ROFL when they'd be told the figures) won't reset the old state.
But of course you/they can change the measures : don't reject the eMail if
company specific keywords ("class","Java","finance",...) also are included
(perhaps just add a warning header to the eMail).
I know from experience that sometimes the AMOUNT of real spam eMails can be
annoying (to some of the employees/newsgroup-readers - not everyone).
Just hitting "delete" isn't satisfactory in those cases (some people
reportedly even have quit or changed their eMail address due to that fact).
sincerely,
U. Penski
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