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[Asrg] "ham" is ridiculous -was- Re: False Positive

2003-04-03 07:43:08
At 14:46 +0100 4/3/03, Matt Sergeant wrote:
On Wednesday, Apr 2, 2003, at 21:56 Europe/London, Jim Youll wrote:

I love statistics, but is it possible that not-spam could be possibly called "not spam" rather than "ham" in the research-and-report context? The word "spam" creates enough difficulty on its own without adding another "zany techie word."

"Ham" is in very common use now in the anti-spam community. I don't see any valid reason to stop using it.

It's a cute, meaningless, trite word.

Do you want to be taken seriously, or just use the latest overly clever geek phrase
because you can?

I don't see this sort of behavior in any other serious research community, and for that matter other than the April 1 RFCs, IETF work generally has always been a fairly
sober affair using precise language rather than clever language.

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