On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:58:56AM -0400, Marshall Kragen wrote:
> > What I am advocating is not solely an FTC fix, but an industrywide fix.
> > If all on the Net understand the problem [...]
>
> You're certainly correct about this. But educating the entire population
> of the 'net about anything this complex will take approximately forever.
> We now live on a 'net where people routinely confuse Usenet newsgroups
> and mailing lists, send HTML-encoded messages to mailing lists, blithely
> respond to spammer's "remove me from this list" messages, and engage
> in all sorts of other silly and rude behavior a zillion times a day.
I think forever is maybe a misconception ;) Extraordinary, concerted
effort, perhaps . . .
If the government *wants* to educate people, it can. Sometimes more
effectively than others, but it can do it. Even the less than ideal
consumer education initiatives on AIDS have at least reduced the idiot
factor.
If the resources were made available in a concerted fashion, efforts were
made to provide information that was accurate and understandable,
concerted education plans were in place and people were encouraged to
pursue them, this *could* be done.
That, however, is work outside the mold. It's so much easier for them to
just run everything through the legislation mill :P
B
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