Bob Hayden wrote:
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> Two naysayers sayeth...
- End of forwarded message from Robert J. MacG. Dawson -
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> I think you are both failing to make use of the relevant
> probabilities. The real question is not whether
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> P(being home|away message) = 0
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> but whether
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Two naysayers sayeth...
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dennis roberts wrote, anent Bob Hayden's fiendish scheme for a (ObStats)
inconvenience sample of householders:
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> but bob ... just like some don't answer their phone WHEN they are at home
> ... one could set th
dennis roberts wrote, anent Bob Hayden's fiendish scheme for a (ObStats)
inconvenience sample of householders:
>
> but bob ... just like some don't answer their phone WHEN they are at home
> ... one could set this up SO as to NOT get messages for a bit ... even
> though they definitely ARE h
but bob ... just like some don't answer their phone WHEN they are at home
... one could set this up SO as to NOT get messages for a bit ... even
though they definitely ARE home ..
i would be careful of this plan
At 11:52 PM 8/12/00 -0400, Bob Hayden wrote:
>I just sent out a posting and immediat
Isn't this the same as those folks who explain on their telephone answering
machines that they are out/away?
Individuals on Long Island, New York, used a method of calling homes in an
area, (thay had a reverse telephone book that listed the individuals by
address). When they received an answe
I just sent out a posting and immediately got back three automated
messages from people saying they are away. This gave me a great idea
for making money off the Internet -- set up a network for house
burglars! You join every list in sight and send a nonsense message to
them all. Then you harves
