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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: Chain letters?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.070135.13514@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1992Dec12.154337.8191@eff.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 07:01:35 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- >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!
-
- >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: It's going to be difficult to discuss this until we get a clear
- definition of the terms "uncertainty" and "vague". Do you mean vague
- in the sense of "vague" or simply "vague" ?
-
- Perhaps it requires a metallic chain to be enclosed to qualify under
- somebody's definition... is this the one the you want to use ?
-
- Another vote for Olaf's sentiments...
-
- tom
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-