On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:02:37PM -0500, Len Budney wrote:
> (my last post in this thread...sorry for getting caught up in it)
>
> Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > True, but even factually-based prejudice, when based on _correlation_
> > > rather than _causation_, is mighty risky business.
> >
> > I'm prejudiced against sendmail, and in favor of djb's software. I
> > don't view that as particularly risky.
>
> True, but you can make a decent case for "causation" here. Sendmail
> has a long and illustrious history of failure and security flaws. It
> would be wrong to call you "prejudiced" for judging it on its track
> record.
Correct.
> Judging all mail from dialups, though, based on the "track record" of
> such mail, is the fallacy of reasoning from the general to the
> specific.
No. This comparison goes limp.
Rejecting mail from dialups could be compared to not using SMTP because
some software that implements SMTP has had problems in the past (Sendmail,
Microsoft Exchange).
Greetz, Peter.
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