On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Randy Cassingham wrote:
> Um... WHICH community?
>
> I consider THE leader in anti-spam efforts to be CAUCE -- the Coalition
> Against Unsolicited COMMERCIAL Email. It does appear, then, that
> reasonable people disagree on the definition of spam.
Quite so. Question is, can we communicate, merely understanding one
another's different deffinition..
Some want a strict definition - in 'UBE' say.) Others of us might just
see several of these words as having "family-relationship" only.
(Wittgenstein.) Just like: some see corollaries, mebe, as being a sub-set
of axioms, but others do not. If 'junk- mail' were used to interpret
spam, would that be illegal thinking? Or to use spam part of the time to
mean the gooey stuff we see in a Usenet NG taken over and stinking?
I have become convinced I better say UBE, in any picky discussion. I'm
willing to defend - or learn - what that means. Spam..., uh that might
be like 'digit' to a mathematician (not a rigorous concept).
For lawyers exact, perfect agreement on what a word (or statute) means,
may be less important than who is for and who is against a given motion.
For IT people, what this or that filter does and does not do - may be at a
more urgent level of needed clarity.
So is there (a) motion in the current debate?
In a debate I could pretend to strictly equate monograph and book in one
session. Using those words interchangably. Then later disagree that
a monograph can last more than 500 pages.
Frankly I doubt CAUCE is accepted by all professionals as 'THE' authority.
(My word.) Have argued here for understanding and diversity.
'Unsolicited' I have seen, can mean several things in e-mail. Even bulk
(not always identical to multi-copy).
When you said "which community?", I liked that. Different language
communities have different definitions /for same word.
cheers
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