Re: Delay emails

Quoting James Harper (james.harper@bendigoit.com.au):

I seldom point out the fallacy of a technical workaround to a social problem these days.

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#edwards Edwards's Law "You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem." Nobody seems to know who Edwards was, but pretty much the entire system administrator profession rests on the implicit assumption that he/she was egregiously mistaken. This plausible-sounding but empty-headed dictum is most often referred to as "Edwards' [sic] Law" -- by the depressingly huge mass of semi-literates unable to correctly write possessives of singular nouns ending in "s".