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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:22:25AM -0400, Susan LaBarre wrote:
> I apologize to all for my heinous spam filter and will look into a gmail
> account. Lots of folks have responded to me from this list offline and this
> is the first time anyone has belabored the spam filter issue. 
> 
> This list is notorious for debating minutia... and the tangents are usually
> interesting. But to go on and on about my spam filter and bypass the content
> of my email is unnecessarily embarrassing and doesn't address any issues
> about peace or climate change. 

I guess the way I look at it is that by using a "spam filter" (which is
like saying that driving unwanted rats from your house into mine is a
"rat filter") that is itself a disruption of the peace of the Internet,
you're not helping further the cause of peace in the wider world.

Climate change, I dunno. But challenge/response and autoresponding to
every message is a known and very heinous form of abuse, and you should
be just as concerned about it, as it is something it is known you can
/actually do something about/.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-response_spam_filtering#Criticisms
 http://www.politechbot.com/p-04746.html

That said, go meditate, fine. But I think I fall in with Michael on this
one; what the world needs now isn't some sort of non-measurable harmony,
what the world needs now is math education and a good rechargeable solar
battery. We spend too much time on ephemera and the unprovable and not
nearly enough on the obvious brokenness of the world we inhabit already.

Peace,
Steve

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