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- From: greeny@eff.org (J S Greenfield)
- Subject: Re: Chain letters?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.215820.12189@eff.org>
- Originator: greeny@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <pschleck.724049200@cwis> <1992Dec11.165515.22434@eff.org> <1992Dec11.180920.28593@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:58:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.180920.28593@ms.uky.edu> morgan@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
- >>
- >>I read the joke chain letter. I don't think it is a chain letter (any
- >>more than a toy car is car). Thus, I don't think the new prohibition
- >>even covers the specific material they want to ban.
- >>
- >
- >I'd classify anything that says "send this to XX other people" as
- >a chain letter..........
-
- OK, Wes. I bite. By this standard, isn't *your* post a "chain letter?"
-
- For that matter, isn't mine, and isn't every other post in this thread that
- has excerpted this portion of the original letter?
-
-
- Personally, I agree with Carl. A toy car is not a car. Dana Carvey's
- parody of a Bush speech is not a Bush speech. And a parody of a chain
- letter is not (necessarily) a chain letter.
-
- I certainly don't buy your rule of thumb for defining a chain letter.
-
-
- --
- J. S. Greenfield greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
- (I like to put 'greeny' here, greeny@eff.org
- but my d*mn system wants a
- *real* name!) "What's the difference between an orange?"
-