On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 01:50:45PM +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Same thing with email. If you hand a child a gun, where the child
> doesn't even really understand what a gun *is* and then tell that child
> to use this gun wisely, you can hardly criticise the child for making a
> mistake with that gun.
>> Similarly in this domain, the clueless marketing droid who emails a
> 100mb file (an extreme example) is that child.
A big difference between children and adults is that adults are
responsible for their actions, regardless of the activity.
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