[Freeciv-Dev] Re: spam

[Mark Metson <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Adam Theo wrote:

> i see alot of spam makes its way onto the list. is there anyway to block 
> non-subscribers from posting?

Ontology, philogeny, phobogeny... Blocking the opinions of those who do 
not subscribe to ones own opinions vs which is signal which is noise, 
which is figure which is ground. Positive vs negative, aether vs ground, 
and whether aether exists at all.

Techlevel affects such matters. Posting agents are sometimes capable of 
subscribing to post then unsubscribing.

> btw, hello, everyone. new subscriber as of yesterday. i'm here to 
> checkout how progress of freeciv is going, and see if i can help in 
> other ways besides programming (not a coder, sorry). my experiences are 
> in XML and Jabber, an open instant messaging/groupchat protocol.

So XML and Jabber are not code? Are they, then, a cypher? Distinguishing 
representation, heiroglyph, alphabet, code, cypher, phoneme, script, 
instruction etc may be key to some of the tech tree but possibly that may 
be a rulesets problem rather than a dev problem?

Possibly you may be using a distinction such as that between 
instrumentality/effectiveness/accomplishment/practical (making it so) for 
code versus academic/hypothetical/theoretical for protocol?

Having discovered that various protocols such as United Nations 
conventions are treated as academic rather than having the force of actual 
classical or quantum-mechanical conventions I am interested in this 
project largely because it seems to be focussed very much on precisely 
such problems. Possibly 'coder' would be a unit that actually causes 
("forces") things to happen whereas a protocol-er would be more akin to a 
"diplomat" unit? Talk about things rather than actually do them?

There is a problem when one has a concept to convey but does not want to 
transmit it or have it happen but merely wants to indicate it without 
thereby drawing its attention or causing it to happen. For example to say 
"nuke" without thereby "nuking". Of the classic one being that the syntax 
nasties object vehemently to the use of the word nasties, such that mere 
mention of the word nastie is automatic end-of-thread... ;-)

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MM

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