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

2003-04-03 08:20:43
On Thursday, Apr 3, 2003, at 15:41 Europe/London, Jim Youll wrote:

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.

And "spam" is named after a monty python sketch.

"Ham" was used by almost every single presenter at the MIT conference. It's a recent term, but it's very much in use. Language changes, welcome to the world :-)

Matt.

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