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[Asrg] Need for a Glossary (Was: Taxonomy of anti-spam systems)

2003-03-11 02:31:29
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
With my spokeperson hat on I prefer the terms 'Detect Wanted' and
'Detect Junk'. I am not going to use any term that involves the
word 'fail' with a journalist when talking about my work or
company products.

I like these terms, they are far more clear and don't carry any negative conitations.

should also mention vigilante actions such as teergrubbing and hackback, I

I've not heard these terms before

        "teergrubbing"
        "hackback"

Maybe part of this should create a "glossary" web page, because some people like myself might not be "au courant" and since you are already talking about journalists, will find it useful if some terms and concepts are predefined (or in the course of being defined).

I've found that alot of the arguments being carried on in other threads revolve around semantics and meaning and really start to grow tiring after so many posts. I can't believe that it takes people so long to actually come to some concensis on what SPAM is and what to call / classify the assorted abuses of SMTP, RFC 2822, MIME, and the like, let alone even start coming up with ideas, data gathering, experiments, and maybe even some possible solutions.

I think the choice of words and their semantics are important, but I also think that they shouldn't be the focus of overlong continued discussions, which is why I'd think some sort of open community glossary might be a better place to define and isolate such long term discussions of this nature.

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