On Saturday, May 19, 2001, at 07:47 AM, Tom Coradeschi wrote:
>
> Wow. Your experience is almost exactly the polar opposite of mine,
> Chuq. I get tons of the hoax viruses and very very few of the real
> ones. I'm almost thinking of filtering on the string "this was just
> announced by Intel and IBM".
>
Remember, a good time ago, I decided to take a hard line on people who
posted that stuff, which got me some criticism here, and some criticism
on my lists when I very publically executed a few people who posted that
stuff.
A few public floggings got the point across in ways mere lectures never
did, though, and I think that's one reason why I don't have a huge
problem on my lists any more. For better or worse, I've found sometimes
you simply can't do the "look, we're all intelligent adults here..."
bit... This was a case where that didn't work, but a few whacks with the
cattle prod got their attention -- but if you're going to do that, I
think it's important that you go beyond "don't do that!" to "here's how
you SHOULD do it..." -- and that's all in my list documentation. It was
just a case of convincing folks to read it and pay attention to it...
--
Chuq Von Rospach, Internet Gnome <http://www.chuqui.com>
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Yes, yes, I've finally finished my home page. Lucky you.
You know, I Remember When I Used To Speak In Capitals, Too. It's
addictive.
It also encourages people to poke sticks at you. Justifiably. (chuq,
1992)
