- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:14:25 +1000
- To: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > At 10:30 +0300 UTC, on 2007-07-31, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> * Prima facie, I trust software performing the selection for me >> based on said labeling even less. > > Do you not trust your anti spam filter? Do you not trust your browser to > block pop-ups? Spam filters and popup blockers don't work by by looking for explicit labelling by authors. They use various forms of heuristics to determine the chances of being spam or an unwanted popup. Even if spam and popups did come with labelling, would you really trust it? It would be like the "evil bit" for IP packet headers. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
Received on Saturday, 4 August 2007 03:14:36 UTC