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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] On PR and 'community building'
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Tomas Zerolo |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] On PR and 'community building' |
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Fri, 3 Feb 2006 06:36:10 +0100 |
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:17:42PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:16:34PM +0000, Robin Green wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:33:20 +0100
> > address@hidden (Tomas Zerolo) wrote:
[automatic astroturf detection, karma system]
> > Baaaaaaad. Spam is easily humanly-recognisable by at least 20% of the
> > net population, so a spam-filter is humanly verifiable [...]
> Worse: such systems are entirely reliant on being provided with
> correct training data in order to function. And you can't really get
> that either.
>
> Also, spammers have no real motive to evade most anti-spam systems,
[...]
Good points, both of you. Another occurs to me: there might be
legitimate reasons for someone to hide behind different personae. So
what if "we" are providing the infrastructure for a police-state
[whatever this might mean in whatever context] to uncloak those people?
(More things along these lines come to mind...)
:-(
Regards
-- tomás
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