Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making things harder for legitimate users, treating them as acceptable collateral damage in the war on spam. Spam filtering works; and people who still have a problem should investigate http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ for an excell

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:27:59PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> -- >> A.3. Voting procedure >> 1. Each independent set of related amendments is voted on in a >> separate bal

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:04:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > A. This has no business being a general resolution, and would be an >abuse of that process, IMHO[1]. [...] > [1] If it's not, that's a bug in the constitution. Any quibblers who would > like to play constitutional lawyer, please d

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making > things harder for legitimate users, treating them as acceptable > collateral damage in the war on spam. Spam filtering works; and people > who still h

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:33:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it > after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and > expensive modem connection. Thats why I find Dan Bernsteins proposal[1] the most brillian

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:28:01AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > My thought was that we accept resolutions from anyone anyway, > with no quorum required to propose the resolution. We accept them with the same requirements as a resolution: a proposer and some seconders -- quorums don't

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:59:32AM +0200, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:33:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it > > after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and > > expensive mode

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it > after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and > expensive modem connection. Most of the times you use pop3 then. For that there are many tools deleting spam

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making > > things harder for legitimate users, treating them as acceptable > > collateral damage in

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making > > > things harder for legi

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:47:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > YM "Schwartz set" here? [0] There might be a "Schulze set" of some sort? http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/condor2.html says: "1. An "unbeaten set" is a set of candidates none of whom is beaten by anyone outside that set. 2.

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:00, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > > now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin > > your > > daily dose of canned meat should drop nicely. > > It does not work. What about those italian spams we received > yesterday and today? If the debian serv

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it >> after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and >> expensive modem connection. > > Most of the times you use pop

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Manoj, dear Raul, dear Anthony, I have added the original description (1997) of this method. I hope that it will make the idea behind this method clearer. *** Axiomatic Definition: Suppose, that d(Ci,Cj) is the number o

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:00, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> > >> > now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin >> > your >> > daily dose of canned meat should drop nicely. >> >> It does not work. What about those italian sp

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection > who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real > issue. agreed. However I believe that by working on the spamassassin config the amount of garbage delivered can be

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:37:56PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection > > who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real > > issue. > agreed. However I believe that

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:19, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it > >> after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and > >

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raul> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:47:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns Raul> "Dominates" invites non-technical comparisons between the Raul> proposed mechanism and the existing mechanism. I'd like to Raul> avoid that term if possible

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:38:46PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > Except that dominates is (if I understand correctly) the appropriate > term-of-art. I'm not sure what you mean by this. What is your basis for this statement? Here's my understanding: The only place the constitution uses the word "d

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making > things harder for legitimate users, treating them as acceptable > collateral damage in the war on spam. Spam filtering works; and people > who still

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:33:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it > after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and > expensive modem connection. Thats why I find Dan Bernsteins proposal[1] the most brillia

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:59:32AM +0200, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:33:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it > > after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and > > expensive mode

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:28:01AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > My thought was that we accept resolutions from anyone anyway, > with no quorum required to propose the resolution. We accept them with the same requirements as a resolution: a proposer and some seconders -- quorums don't

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making > > things harder for legitimate users, treating them as acceptable > > collateral damage in

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:47:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > YM "Schwartz set" here? [0] There might be a "Schulze set" of some sort? http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/condor2.html says: "1. An "unbeaten set" is a set of candidates none of whom is beaten by anyone outside that set. 2.

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making > > > things harder for legi

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:00, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > > now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin > > your > > daily dose of canned meat should drop nicely. > > It does not work. What about those italian spams we received > yesterday and today? If the debian serv

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it > after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and > expensive modem connection. Most of the times you use pop3 then. For that there are many tools deleting spam

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it >> after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and >> expensive modem connection. > > Most of the times you use pop

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Manoj, dear Raul, dear Anthony, I have added the original description (1997) of this method. I hope that it will make the idea behind this method clearer. *** Axiomatic Definition: Suppose, that d(Ci,Cj) is the number o

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:00, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> > >> > now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin >> > your >> > daily dose of canned meat should drop nicely. >> >> It does not work. What about those italian sp

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection > who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real > issue. agreed. However I believe that by working on the spamassassin config the amount of garbage delivered can be

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:37:56PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection > > who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real > > issue. > agreed. However I believe that

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet votetallying

2002-10-17 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raul> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:47:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns Raul> "Dominates" invites non-technical comparisons between the Raul> proposed mechanism and the existing mechanism. I'd like to Raul> avoid that term if possible

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:19, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it > >> after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and > >

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:38:46PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > Except that dominates is (if I understand correctly) the appropriate > term-of-art. I'm not sure what you mean by this. What is your basis for this statement? Here's my understanding: The only place the constitution uses the word "d