03-07-2003 16:11									#31
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Spammers should be stoned to death by mobs of geeks in the city square.

	03-07-2003 17:25									#32
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No, they should be foreced to use macs and aol.

	03-07-2003 17:42									#33
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They should be forced to use emacs.

For everything.

Last edited by The Mad Monk on 03-07-2003 at 19:03

	03-07-2003 17:59									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Is there an official holder of the vocabulary truth in English ? Or are English dictionaries' definitions written by some private actor to correspond with the general definition in the society ?

UK English dictionaries aren't prescriptive, they measure the meaning and spelling of words rather than define them. Which is why many US English words are accepted meaning and spelling in the UK.

	03-07-2003 18:02									#35
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I'd suppose most of them ARE stoned all the time.

	03-07-2003 18:40									#36
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quote: Bidder's Edge's bots were collecting data from eBay. eBay showed a slight performance lag. The judge ruled that the bots were tresspassing and causing damage to productivity.

Which is NOT email. Saying emails are trespassing on the server is a ludicrous position! Especially when there was no proof of a slowdown. And I'm not sure that I wouldn't have ruled the other way in the eBay case either, even though it that was it was bots collecting data causing a slowdown.

quote: It would be a pretty absurd extension of trespass law to start including personal property of any kind.

quote: He still has to bear the cost, though

Which is a non-argument in comparing the two. Just because the government hasn't decided to charge for emails (which has been considered from time to time) does not make it substantially different that post letters.

	03-07-2003 19:01									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui Which is NOT email. Saying emails are trespassing on the server is a ludicrous position!

No more ludicrous than saying using bots to collect data is trespassing on the server.

One use HTTP, the other SMTP -- what's the difference?

	03-07-2003 19:12									#38
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Only a temporary and already expired victory, California has since passed a spam law.

	03-07-2003 20:08									#39
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sweet!

virginia needs to pass one

	04-07-2003 01:03									#40
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quote: No more ludicrous than saying using bots to collect data is trespassing on the server.

Like I said, I don't think I'd say bots were trespassing either. Though emails are less harmful to the server.