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- From: greeny@eff.org (J S Greenfield)
- Subject: Re: Chain letters?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.173054.18939@eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1992Dec18.154659.24235@newstand.syr.edu> <1992Dec21.020050.24688@pegasus.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:30:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.020050.24688@pegasus.com> tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
- >greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield) writes:
- >
- >>Carl's making a serious point. I think you're just being silly...
- >>
- >>How about if I email my resume to a friend saying, "Feel free to
- >>send a copy of my resume to anyone you know who may be interested."
- >
- >>Is this a chain letter?
- >
- >>How about one sayin, "Here's a good joke I just heard..."
- >
- >>I believe this demonstrates the point that Carl was trying to make.
- >
- >J.S., I was being silly in response to silliness I believe that is
- >covered under the "fair response clause" of Law 21-FW-5.
- >
- >Now you want me to believe that you can't determine the differences
- >between a resume, a joke and a chain letter.
-
- *I* can. But the *definition* in question clearly could not. That is what
- Carl said in his post.
-
- To my eyes (and apparently to others, including Carl's) what you and others
- have termed a "chain letter" was clearly a joke.
-
- I'd say it's you and those others who are having trouble with your definitions.
- Otherwise, one of you would have long ago produced an alternate definition for
- a "chain letter" that *doesn't* include lots of stuff that we all seem to
- agree are *not* "chain letters."
-
-
- >Thanks for playing todays exciting episode of "why not spend forever
- >trying to legally define the entire world before we act".
-
- Clearly, you use silliness to make up for your lack of any reasoned
- response.
-
- I've seen at least two workable definitions of a "chain letter" posted.
- (One equivalent to the US Postal regulation, and one including all letters
- distributed solely for the sake of distribution, itself.)
-
- It is *your* side, which insists that those definitions are insufficient,
- but which has failed to produce a definition that is not overly-broad
- (including things like resumes and jokes) that is responsible for the
- extended length of this discussion.
-
-
- --
- 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?"
-