Santosh Helekar writes:
The author of the above email, quite predictably,
fails to understand the meaning of chain letters.
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Hi Santosh,
You are wrong again in your prediction!
This author is abundantly aware of the meaning of chain letters. You,
however, are missing the essence of the point I am trying to make. You
labeled Cynthias post as chain letter - but by the same token
(definition) you dont realize that your post also falls in the chain letter
category.
Cynthia emailed some of the groups she has subscribed to, but apparently did
NOT again cc any of the same members individually. You, however, chose to
publish your same post twice (once via your ccs to certain individuals and
again via the system generated (Goanet) post to the same individuals.
Therefore, applying the above comparable definition of chain letters one
can see that theres no difference between the two emails (i.e. Cynthias
and your post) -- only that you went a step further, by duplicating your
post.
For the sake of brevity, I will not analyze your entire post but will depict
how the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a Chain Letter:
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Chain letter: a letter sent to several persons with a request that each
send copies of the letter to an equal number of persons.
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Now, please examine Cynthias post, and show me how it meets the above
definition, i.e. where she has requested that each (member) send copies of
the letter to X number of persons. She was only sharing a well-meaning
and inspiring story with a moral.
Note: If you (through your own action) choose to send Cynthias post to
others, with an explicit request to re-distribute it to several other
people, using the Websters definition above, you would be responsible for
chain mailing.
Santos wrote:
[I cced my post to some people because I wanted to give
them advance notice of what I wrote in response to the
above post, since some of us had discussed the issue
of urban legends on Goanet, in private.]
Just out of curiosity, are you clandestinely gathering a group-opinion on
posts published on Goanet (via your private emails to personal friends)
before responding to the poster on Goanet? It is interesting to note that
you conveniently avoided ccing your response to the author of the subject
email, as advance notice? :)
Unfortunately, (albeit unintentionally) you are doing disservice to your
friends by publicly publishing a group of email addresses, which spammers
can readily get hold of and spam your friends. I like to believe that this
was an unintentional slip on your part.
Finally, my friend take it from the horses mouth -- this writer carries no
such guilt you infer in your post, nor has dislike for any of the people
referred to in Sandeep Hebles post. This author is simply against biases
and prejudices people carry. I hope you can understand that.
Best wishes,
Joe Vaz
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