On Saturday 06 April 2002 00:22, john rigby wrote: > Hello folks, > > This is not off-topic! This is a probable reason that we are all having > more and more email problems.
Well strictly speaking it _is_ off topic. "Off topic" doesn't mean useless or completely irrelevant (obviously that shouldn't be posted at all); it means anything which the poster thinks will be of interest to at least some members, but is unrelated, or only tenously related to the topic of the list. AFAIK, the email problems we've been having are not related to filters (I've had some, and I'm not with a commercial ISP or free webmail service). And now for my own off-topic comment ... > One of my fears about the development of the fabulous tool we call the > Internet is the prediction made by Kilneth nearly a decade ago: " Without > positive loop feedback it can rapidly become a Cyberbog". It is going that > way... > please read this a.s.a.p. > http://www.talkbiz.com/assassin.html > Everything needs a " positive feedback loop", from teaching children good > behaviour, to the Sydney Opera House - a project which had no control by > feedback. Call me a pedant, but what you seem to advocating is not a positive feedback loop, but a negative one. Positive feedback is what happens when part of the output is fed back as input, so the signal, motion or behaviour increases. Unless you're a rock guitarist, it's generally a bad thing. Sir Robin
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