Quoting "Rick Moen" <rick@linuxmafia.com>:
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.
Whoever wrote it.. but the bit over the "entire system administrator profession" is wrong. Usually the managers are the ones believing in it. (Or politicians) Maybe it is good enough to detain the e-mails of the manager in question. He believes it works, and the rest can live in peace and harmony;-) My favourite anecdote is the "nifty proxy" filtering the word sex. Well, the music journalists had their trouble to look up sextets. But that was a glitch. "We" could/have to live with it. But the final straw was the manager not being able to fill out a form with "sex(M/F)" in it;-) Regards Peter