[Spambayes] Terminology in user documentation: "spam" vs. "junk mail"

Fazal Majid fazal@majid.fm
Tue Nov 5 18:29:51 2002


> Guido van Rossum  guido@python.org
> Fri Nov 1 00:56:13 2002
>
> If they don't know the word "spam", they don't need a spam filter yet.
>
> I agree that we need something better than "ham".  Non-spam works for
> me; "good mail" too.
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

While revulsion for spam may be universal, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and
Buddhists (combined, over 50% of the world's population) would not
necessarily think of "ham" as something desirable.

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