RE: Three solutions for spam

[Len Budney]

(my last post in this thread...sorry for getting caught up in it)

Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > True, but even factually-based prejudice, when based on _correlation_
>  > rather than _causation_, is mighty risky business.
> 
> I'm prejudiced against sendmail, and in favor of djb's software.  I
> don't view that as particularly risky.

True, but you can make a decent case for "causation" here. Sendmail
has a long and illustrious history of failure and security flaws. It
would be wrong to call you "prejudiced" for judging it on its track
record.

Judging all mail from dialups, though, based on the "track record" of
such mail, is the fallacy of reasoning from the general to the
specific.

Len.

--
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even
they both are abomination to the LORD. --Proverbs 17:15