"John Fenley" <pontifier(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
I am not missing your point. You are missing mine.
I have a right to make you jump through a small hoop if you expect me to
jump through the larger hoop of reading whatever email you (the random
person I don't know yet) decided to send me.
Ah. So you don't want people to send you patches for software
you've written. You don't want to be told about typos in your public
web pages. If people want to help you, they've got to jump through
"fun" hoops of your devising.
You don't want people to stop you on the street to ask you for
directions. You have "every right" in such a situation to demand that
they show photo ID, to prove to you that they're not a mugger.
Such systems are so totally an irrevocably flawed in *all* possible
ways, that I'm ashamed I've participated in this conversation for so
long.
Real world example of a C/R system:
Visitor: (pushes doorbell)Ding Dong
Resident: (through intercom) Who is it?
Visitor: (through intercom)It's Steve.
Resident: (through intercom) Oh, ok. Let me buzz you in.
Door: Buzzzzzzzzzzzzz *click*
Or:
Nice guy: "Hey, you dropped your wallet!"
C/R guy : "Don't talk to me! Show me ID, or I'll call the police!"
Alan DeKok.
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