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Subject: Re: false positives
From: Tom Neff <tneff @ grassyhill . net>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:02:27 -0500
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In-reply-to: <29202.1046229649@kanga.nu>
References: <4373E580-4904-11D7-B4B5-0003934516A8@plaidworks.com> <15964.12072.364914.86758@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <29202.1046229649@kanga.nu>

--On Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:20 PM -0800 J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>
wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:06:16 -0500 
> Barry A Warsaw <bwarsaw@python.org> wrote:
> 
>> Even I have false positives and negatives when I manually slog throw
>> my raw inbox. :)
> 
> <the sound of breaking illusions>
> 
> The difference is that those are your fault, not your software's fault.

That is, as they say, a distinction without a difference.  A missed
legitimate email has no way of knowing whether it was missed as the result of
software miscalibration or a tired eye on the 1AM Inbox.



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