Quoting Peter, from the post of Wed, 21 Feb: > > >Humm, I guess the filter IS really strong. > >I'm resending, this time acting like a spammer and changing the spelling > >a bit. :-) > > Change it a bit more. I found it in the spam bin AGAIN.
lucky me :-) > >Now, if you could please stop the silly misuse of the term "Turing test" > > In a way when you said you failed the TURING TEST set up by CAPTCHA you > actually confessed that you are part machine ... any borg parts inside ? it's not a Turing test and "captcha" is not a person, it's a program written by a person, in some cases a person with a heavy finger on the parameters that smear the letters so much that not even a human can pass the test. And I have no artificial body parts, you must be confusing me with Anna Nicole Smith, as people often do. I hoped her recent death would put an end to that. > Speaking of respect, it would be a miracle if anybody would show any. I respect people who deserve it (hint, not people who take Alan's name in vain) > Either that, or a typo. In the land of bilk and honey people show > respect when they have secondary motives. Sounds like California to me. Live there for a while, hated the awkwardness of the communication with people. It seems they ALWAYS have secondary AND tertiary motives (in soap operas - sometimes quaternary, and even quinary). > borg standards, I will NOT have any standards imposed by entities who > consider photographs of one's own children and family stored in one's > own computer (or emailing them between family) 'child pornography' and ahh, see, this is where this exchange becomes a philosophical one. you are mixing moral/cultural censorship and spam filtering. spam (or UCE) has a very simple definition but is hard to tell one apart when you are a computer. a social/Moral "violation" is interpreted differently based on geography and culture. What passes as "hard core porn" in some countries is a late- or midnight TV movie in others. Censorship is done to protect morals and culture, spam filtering is done to protect the readers wasted time, disk space, bandwidth and at times sanity. > > And make that three stopped emails (this is the third). yay! > >it implies that SMTP is not trusted. and indeed it isn't. it SUCKS. > > So then it's like a bank where you register and open an account, put in > money but are never allowed to withdraw any of it because 'your credit > card and cheques may be forged' ? hey, describes my bank to a "T" :-) > I didn't make SMTP, I use it like everyone else. If there is another way > to send email I am interested. too late now. with hundreds of millions of SMTP servers it's going to be very hard to change one of the basic protocols of the Internet. If there was a better offering from anyone, believe me, the jump would have been made :-/ -- A definite maybe Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
