I generally enjoy the slightly off-the-wall comments of Victor "Limburger" Boersma. If he were not so generally stimulating, he would be a major annoyance because two thirds of his posts are either off-topic or more properly addressed to individuals than to the list. But then the last third of them are so right-on, and half the marginal ones are either really funny or thought-provoking.
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Victor Boersma) writes: >I for one, refuse to visit WEB sites except under duress. I don't have >time to wait for pictures to develop that I don't need to see ... So uncheck the "load images" item in the browser preferences. That's exactly why it's there. >But than, when I get one of these automated answer machines I always >select the human operator option, not because I need it, but because >I want to make sure that anybody who subjects me to that indignity >will either not get any of my business or at the highest possible >cost to them. Personally, I'd much rather search a company's web site than spend the same time on hold being passed around from one idiot to another who don't understand my question, until they finally decide to write the question down and hand it to someone "who will call me back real soon now". I recently spent 6 weeks trying to find out why a certain brand of ISDN terminal adapter always disconnected from our remote access server immediately after being authorized. >I am working on a system that will automatically detect automated eMail >messages, so I can automatically answer the automated message and thus >overload the system with irrelevant nonsense between machines. Do you consider the TREG mailing list a source of automated messages ? I share your sentiments, but the problem of junk e-mail is a social problem, not a technical problem. Social problems need social solutions, just as technical problems need technical solutions. -- / Lars Poulsen Internet E-mail: [email protected] OSICOM Technologies (Internet Business Unit, formerly RNS) 7402 Hollister Avenue Telefax: +1-805-968-8256 Santa Barbara, CA 93117 Telephone: +1-805-562-3158
