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Re: fighting spam || avoiding spam



On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:21:50PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 08-Jun-04, 06:47 (CDT), Mathieu Roy <yeupou@coleumes.org> wrote: 
> >> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> wrote:
> >> > How would a script _not_ obfuscate that, but do obfuscate real email
> >> >adresses? Answer: it can't.
> >> 
> >> Instead of focusing on how things cannot be done, try to work out how
> >> things could be done. 
> >
> > Have you taken the Dilbert management course? Because it sure sounds
> > like something straight out of the comic strip:
> >
> >    Manager: "I don't know anything about programming, but I want you to
> >              make it do X."
> >
> >    Programmer: "X is impossible"
> >
> >    Manager: "Why do you have such a bad attitide?"
> >
> > Why do people without knowledge in a particular technical field insist
> > on arguing about what is and is not possible? Why is that trait
> > particularly endemic in programming?
> 
> 
> Not having lot of knowledge in a particular technical field does not
> means having no knowledge in this particular technical field. No,
> Steve, your quotation does not fit, it is completely off-topic.

Seems spot on to me. And you're just making it stronger.

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