Marc Perkel, on 2003-02-23, wrote:
> The newsletter for the Electronic Frontier Foundation is not spam. If
> Razor lists it as spam then the problem is not on my end. The problem is
> with Razor, and it needs to be fixed.
A bunch of email users are in a room. A Razor-like system goes out to
them, and asks them "do you think that the EFF newsletter is spam?" They
answer "yes." Others then ask the Razor-like system, "do others say that
the EFF newsletter is spam?" The Razor-like system, truthfully, answers
"yes." GIGO.
>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]:
GIGO
/gi:'goh/ 1. Garbage In, Garbage Out. A reference to the fact
that computers, unlike humans, will unquestioningly process
the most nonsensical of input data and produce nonsensical
output. Of course a properly written program will reject
input data that is obviously erroneous but such checking is
not always easy to specify and is tedious to write.
GIGO is usually said in response to {lusers} who complain that
a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect
input or otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used
to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty,
incomplete, or imprecise data.
--
Frank Tobin http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/
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