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  1. Re:Twisting your analogy farther on Paul Graham Describes Dangers of Spam Blacklists · · Score: 1
    He's in a building with a bunch of muggers, and the local Chinese restaurant association listed his building as one that delivery people get mugged in. As a result, a lot of Chinese restaurants won't deliver to him in that building.

    Does the restaurant association have the right to tell the truth about what happens to delivery people in that building? Does an individual restaurant have the right to base its delivery policy on that report? Or do you believe he has a right to get Chinese food delivered from a particular restaurant because he wants it, even if the restaurant's owner or manager doesn't want to deliver it?

  2. Re:Vigilante it ain't on Paul Graham Describes Dangers of Spam Blacklists · · Score: 1

    Are restaurant and movie reviewers also vigilantes in your eyes? How is a review saying "That movie sucks; don't waste your time" different from a blocklist saying "Too much spam comes from that part of the Internet; don't waste your attention"? Either way, I can choose whether or not to pay any attention to someone else's opinion.

  3. Re:Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Over. on Paul Graham Describes Dangers of Spam Blacklists · · Score: 1

    If I got mugged several times delivering pizza to other people in Paul's apartment building, then I'm probably not going to deliver it to Paul in that building. If he wants my pizza that badly he can hire someone else to pick it up and deliver it, that's not my problem.

  4. Re:Similar thing... on Should You Trust MAPS? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the RBL isn't anywhere near the pizza place; it has a phone number, and if a prospective customer calls and asks about the pizza place, it will answer. They've noticed that a lot of prospective customers call that review (RBL) line.

  5. Re:MP3 is "lossy," but so is PCM (what isn't?) on New File Sharing Networks · · Score: 1

    Actually, information about which cards do good digital input (e.g. Zoltrix) and which always resample even when it's not necessary (even when the input frequency is supposedly the recorded frequency) is often posted on etree, dat-heads, budd, and numerous other places. True, dankseeds is more excessive, copying everything twice and comparing the resulting .wav files for identity.