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.