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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Chain letters?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.154337.8191@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <pschleck.724049200@cwis> <1992Dec11.165515.22434@eff.org> <cwis.724110716@cwis> <1gcr0aINN2me@iraul1.ira.uka.de>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:43:37 GMT
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- s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
-
- [...]
- >To all of the people who complained that the prohibition of
- >chain-lettering violates their academic freedom, especially in this
- >case: go get a life!
- [...]
-
- I haven't claimed that that prohibition of chain letters violates
- academic freedom; I've claimed that letter in question is not a chain
- letter. I'll revise that claim now:
-
- But what is meant by the term "chain letter"?
-
- If it means "chain letter, as prohibited by the U.S. Post Office",
- then I doubt that letter in question is a chain letter. (I don't know
- the USPO regulations; but I assume that illegal chain letters involve
- some renumeration. In contrast, the letter in question was obviously a
- joke, a no renumeration was really expected.)
-
- If "chain letter" means any "letter written with an invitation to the
- recipient to pass it on to another", then letter in question might be
- a chain letter, but any rule that prohibits such chain letters to too
- broad.
-
- Finally, the uncertainty in the meaning of the word "chain letter",
- means that the rule is too vague.
-
- - Carl
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-