Re: [Asrg] Soundness of silence

[Alessandro Vesely <[e-mail]>]

der Mouse wrote:
>> Vernon's list is not really helpful, except for trying and discourage
>> potential submitters.
> 
> You're reading it too literally.  The "sound advice" is not present
> overtly; it could perhaps be phrased "make sure you're not falling into
> any of these traps if you want to be taken seriously rather than
> eliciting just pointing and laughing".

Although some of those traps aim at sounding out technical skills of 
spam-killer wannabes, many of them indulge in psychological, social, 
or economical aspects of their personality. Does that mean anti-spam 
is a sort of psychological task? A technical specification shouldn't 
be immersed in that sort of endeavors: it should just provide just 
means. Given a fair basis, it is unconceivable that a few individuals 
can subvert the world's order. (Well, once we've learned how to do 
that, we should apply it to politics as well :-)