I can't believe we're even debating this!

As my old boss would say, anyone who has enough free time on their hands
to worry about this kind of stuff needs a project!

I for one don't care what it's called.  I'm more focused on keeping it
out of my users' mailboxes.

Ryan


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Earnshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:33 AM
To: Daniel Quinlan
Cc: Greg A; Mike Batchelor; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spammers sneaking lower Bayes scores

Daniel Quinlan wrote:

>>Ham=good wanted email
>>Spam=bad unwanted email
> 
> Those are not the generally accepted definitions and definitely not
the
> ones used by us.
> 
>   spam = unsolicited bulk/commercial email
>   ham  = everything else

You are the language expert amongst the developers. It is best to be 
politically correct nowadays. Complaints have been made by the Jewish, 
kosher (not yet by the Muslim, halal) community who would rather not see

such words in common use.

I use the terms "spam" and "non-spam," myself, as far as SA goes. Though

atheist, I would rather not use the term "ham," since I see no reason 
to. There is a perfectly viable alternative (non-spam.) When I buy ??? 
from my local butcher, I simply point at it and do the rest in sign 
language, in order not to offend any possible customers within earshot.

Could we have an alternative to "spam?"

Best,

Tony

-- 
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