In my personal experience with the dare program, it is started way to early. As a fourth grader, no one cares about drugs or even has access to drugs. So the big scare campaign that the dare officers give is detrimental. By the time the kids get to junior high (or high school) and have their first interactions with illegal drugs, they see that their friends are using them and not dropping dead instantly. Who do they belive now, the scarey DARE officer who 'lied' to them, or their friends who they see useing the drugs without ill effects? If the DARE program was implemented in junior high instead of elementary school, and told the truths about drugs instead of scare stories, it could be much more effective with curving the drug use in teens.
Not to be offtopic of the post, but this one personal experience of DARE really gets to me. The DARE program scares the kids into beleiving that all drugs are bad and will kill you and hurt you, but then a few years latter Marijuana is legalized in my state (CA) for medicinal use! What are the kids supposed to think, Frist Marijuana is a huge evil and perscription drugs are alright, but then all of a sudden Marijuana is a perscription drug that helps people with terminal illnesses such as cancer (very debatable!). How could a drug that was thought to be so harmfull all of a sudden be found to be so helpful?(again debatable) Does this mean that other drugs like heroin, pcp, and meth actually have benificial qualities that we just don't know about yet? I wouldn't be supprised if these questions are running through the heads of current DARE participants.
Just some personal experiences, bring on the flames.
I think you just totally confused your congressman. Remember your congressman is probably in his 60's and thinks that the internet is contained in his web browser. The reason legislation like this is even brought up in this country is because the internet-decision makers are technically illiterate.
If you were to archive the entire usenet archive you would run into the needle in the haystack problem. I mean *please* compare the amount of *useful* messages that flow through usenet servers each day to the amount of (spam|p0rn|trolls). Such an effort to archive would result in a huge unmanegable database of worthless history of money making schemes and XXX sites.
And what about all the illegal content posted to usenet daily? It is bad enough to have the MPAA and FBI surfing for illegal http:// material. Think of the lawsuits and corporate uproar that a public protected database of usenet posts containing copyrighted software and other ilicit materials.
On the technical size, does anyone know how big Usenet grows daily? The terabytes of data in a proposed archive would be very unwieldy to maintain. Even archving selected groups could combat this problem, but then you run back into the censorship issue of who decides which groups are useful and which are not.
The incentive of years of net culture would not be worth the effort put forth by all the spammers and trollers each day
It's not just NOSPAM, you would also have to account for the/N[a-z0-9]+O[a-z0-9]+S[a-z0-9]+P[a-z0-9]+A[a-z0-9] +M/ as well as the/at/\@/ and/dot/\./ translations
but none the less, currently usenet is not much more than a farm for spammers
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In my personal experience with the dare program, it is started way to early. As a fourth grader, no one cares about drugs or even has access to drugs. So the big scare campaign that the dare officers give is detrimental. By the time the kids get to junior high (or high school) and have their first interactions with illegal drugs, they see that their friends are using them and not dropping dead instantly. Who do they belive now, the scarey DARE officer who 'lied' to them, or their friends who they see useing the drugs without ill effects? If the DARE program was implemented in junior high instead of elementary school, and told the truths about drugs instead of scare stories, it could be much more effective with curving the drug use in teens.
Not to be offtopic of the post, but this one personal experience of DARE really gets to me. The DARE program scares the kids into beleiving that all drugs are bad and will kill you and hurt you, but then a few years latter Marijuana is legalized in my state (CA) for medicinal use! What are the kids supposed to think, Frist Marijuana is a huge evil and perscription drugs are alright, but then all of a sudden Marijuana is a perscription drug that helps people with terminal illnesses such as cancer (very debatable!). How could a drug that was thought to be so harmfull all of a sudden be found to be so helpful?(again debatable) Does this mean that other drugs like heroin, pcp, and meth actually have benificial qualities that we just don't know about yet? I wouldn't be supprised if these questions are running through the heads of current DARE participants.
Just some personal experiences, bring on the flames.
I think you just totally confused your congressman. Remember your congressman is probably in his 60's and thinks that the internet is contained in his web browser. The reason legislation like this is even brought up in this country is because the internet-decision makers are technically illiterate.
If you were to archive the entire usenet archive you would run into the needle in the haystack problem. I mean *please* compare the amount of *useful* messages that flow through usenet servers each day to the amount of (spam|p0rn|trolls). Such an effort to archive would result in a huge unmanegable database of worthless history of money making schemes and XXX sites.
And what about all the illegal content posted to usenet daily? It is bad enough to have the MPAA and FBI surfing for illegal http:// material. Think of the lawsuits and corporate uproar that a public protected database of usenet posts containing copyrighted software and other ilicit materials.
On the technical size, does anyone know how big Usenet grows daily? The terabytes of data in a proposed archive would be very unwieldy to maintain. Even archving selected groups could combat this problem, but then you run back into the censorship issue of who decides which groups are useful and which are not.
The incentive of years of net culture would not be worth the effort put forth by all the spammers and trollers each day
It's not just NOSPAM, you would also have to account for the /N[a-z0-9]+O[a-z0-9]+S[a-z0-9]+P[a-z0-9]+A[a-z0-9] +M/ as well as the /at/\@/ and /dot/\./ translations
but none the less, currently usenet is not much more than a farm for spammers