On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:42:39 +0200 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat,02.Jan.10, 22:23:25, Celejar wrote: > > > What's wrong with using technical solutions to solve social problems? > > Isn't that what things like spam filtering are all about? > > Exactly my point. Spam filtering kinda works, but is not really a > solution. Although you don't get to see much of the spam, it still uses Why is it not a solution? Of course it's not a *perfect* one, but it works quite well for many, and a social solution isn't perfect either, since I'll have to keep explaining this to people ad nauseum, while a technical solution might be able to be "set it and forget it". > up huge amounts of bandwidth that we, as customers of our ISPs are > paying. Is this really true? Is the total amount of upstream bandwidth that spam consumes really that expensive (especially at the ISP wholesale level) ? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
