Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:58:09 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Mail Server Questions Message-ID: <20040927235809.GB977@procyon.nekulturny.org> In-Reply-To: <20040927153815.12a7ed24.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <493F1EDF-0FE0-11D9-A586-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <20040926143211.02d40949.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <4157A0F9.6010007@zonnet.nl> <20040927090142.1719d106.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040927153815.12a7ed24.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Bill Moran wrote:
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> When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish
> idiots.
This is excellent. It should be on a bumper sticker or something.
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> Look at the vehicle situation. If people would force stupid drivers
> to wise up, instead of trying to cover up their stupidity with airbags,
> we'd have a lot less deaths due to vehicle accidents.
Another bumper sticker: "Airbags: The Backup Mail Exchangers of the
Automobile Industry" You could probably add a couple of {fnord}s in
there for good measure.
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> Others would rather just have their doctor prescribe something when thier
> shitty diet makes them sick. Then I have to pay the elevated health
> insurance costs ... now they want to turn the US into a socialized
> medicin country, so every citizen is _forced_ to pay for all the people
> who don't take care of themselves.
Speaking as a citizen of a country that has socialized medicine (Canada),
I can say that the expense probably does not nearly approach what you
think. I compared notes with an American friend just the other day. She
pays in a month what I pay in a year. I think our health care is
subdisized by our income tax (we pay much more than you Americans as I
understand it) but even that probably doesn't make up the difference.
That having been said, I do agree with your point as it relates to
user education, simply because by adopting a policy of misinforming users
you are committing yourself to maintaining a more and more elaborate
structure of, essentially, lies. Reductio ad absurdum &c. Better to let
them know off the bat what the limitations are.
Example: Users already have a completely unjustified perception of
email as being a reliable and immediate transmission medium, which it
clearly is not. Since users are the ones who will have to bear the cost
when reality pays them a wake-up call, it serves everyone to disabuse them
of this notion as quickly as possible. Gently if you have to, rudely if
you can. :)
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> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
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Danny
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