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Re: murphy is listed on spamcop



Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:

> On Sunday 02 January 2005 16:34, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> > Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
> > > Any anti-spam measure that gets any large portion of the spam will have
> > > some false positives.
> >
> > What is this, "you go to war with the army you have, not the army you
> > want"?
> 
> Coker's law:  As a mailing-list discussion grows longer, the probability
> of a comparison involving Bush or bin Laden approaches one.

Hrm; the quote was from neither.

You cannot justify the bad things that happen as a result of your
actions by saying that your goals *require* bad things to happen.

Thomas



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