From: "Rob McEwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Clarification of my last message:
When I asked "What about unsolicited political or non-profit e-mails?",
please don't misunderstand me. I'm NOT saying that all political or
non-profit are not spam... I was only responding to another's definition
of
spam as being "unsolicited email of a commercial nature"
...I was trying to point out that it is sometimes harder to define and/or
rely upon "commercial" than it is to define and/or rely upon "bulk" as a
criteria for being considered spam.
--Rob McEwen
And Rob, as stated in my immediately prior rock carving, non-profit,
political, survey company, or business as a source makes not one whit
of difference. (The FTC do not call list has it wrong this way. And I
have refused to vote for politicians who call, interrupt me on MY time,
and have the temerity to ask for my vote.)
We live in a time of sound bites and limited ability to communicate.
People call it being "interrupt driven." I call it "shallow thinking."
When you think in sound bites you never get into critical thinking mode.
That makes it easier to sell you a bill of brown steaming material such
as emanates from the South end of a North facing fertile male bovine
as gospel truth.
Can you cut deep code while you are interrupted every 10 minutes by a
telephone call or an office visitor? What is the quality of that code?
There is a reason the ritual for approaching a real coder in her office
is so rigid. "It ain't safe." The old joke goes, "Shove a box of doughnuts
through the door. Then holding a chair up for shield push the door open
wider and enter if she is eating. Be done before the doughnuts run out."
Broken concentration leads to broken code, broken critical thinking,
broken contemplative thinking. It leads to shallowness in every day life.
As an old gray hair I note there is WAY more shallowness these days than
I remember from my earlier days. People who were in "thought" related
jobs were seldom interrupted a fraction as often as they are now.
No, the source does not matter with regards to it being spam of any kind,
email, telephone, snail mail, tracts left hanging on the door knob,
vacuuous proselytizers at the door, whatever. It's spam, Sam.
{^_^}
