[PLUG-TALK] Scot Craighead's mailer
Russell Senior
seniorr at aracnet.com
Fri Jun 21 18:04:22 UTC 2002
>>>>> "Jeremy" == Miller, Jeremy <JMILLER at ci.albany.or.us> writes:
Jeremy> But it still isn't absolute, especially since you say he is on
Jeremy> vacation. He might not be spending it at home, and the
Jeremy> connection he has access to might not be his own. [...]
That is a possibility, and might explain it.
I am also slightly bewildered how a member of a Unix/GNU/Linux
enthusiast group doesn't have (and wouldn't demand) access to a box of
such composition that would allow him to routinely use a non-suckie
email client. Not impossible, just seems improbable somehow.
Jeremy> The root of the key word you use is "presume". Not bad in and
Jeremy> of itself, but not the best grounds for being somewhat rude.
Posting private email to a public mailing list is _also_ somewhat
rude. When you do that, intentionally or unintentionally, or through
negligence (i.e., failing to take steps to provide yourself a
non-suckie email client), it seems to me that you risk a certain
measure of "abuse". Sometimes those steps cost money, which is why I
made the reference to his employer's compensation.
For me, those steps include having an account on a machine I can
always secure shell to and just arrange to read some or all of my mail
there.
I felt justified in "abusing" Scot for his error as a way of providing
negative feedback (i.e., "that action caused pain ... don't do that
again"). It was a kind of operant conditioning, that would help guide
the overall system to converge on "optimal behavior". Reflecting now,
I have not convinced myself whether or not this kind of tit-for-tat is
always such a good idea, even given its useful features.
--
Russell Senior ``The two chiefs turned to each other.
seniorr at aracnet.com Bellison uncorked a flood of horrible
profanity, which, translated meant, `This is
extremely unusual.' ''
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