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Bob Cunningham - 11 Feb 2004 19:07 GMT

Recent talk in the news about spam has estimates that about
half of all e-mail is spam these days. I doubt it. In the
e-mail deluge that batters my inbox I would guess that about
one message in ten thousand is non-spam.

Obaue: Those -- including me -- who resisted the use of
"e-mail" as an equivalent of "e-mail message" seem to have
lost the battle. I see it quite often now.

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John Briggs - 11 Feb 2004 19:17 GMT

> Recent talk in the news about spam has estimates that about
> half of all e-mail is spam these days. I doubt it. In the
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> "e-mail" as an equivalent of "e-mail message" seem to have
> lost the battle. I see it quite often now.

Are you objecting to its use for a single message, or to its use for a
collection of messages? If the latter, complain to Royal Messages :-)

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Bob Cunningham - 11 Feb 2004 20:16 GMT

> > Recent talk in the news about spam has estimates that about
> > half of all e-mail is spam these days. I doubt it. In the
> > e-mail deluge that batters my inbox I would guess that about
> > one message in ten thousand is non-spam.

> > Obaue: Those -- including me -- who resisted the use of
> > "e-mail" as an equivalent of "e-mail message" seem to have
> > lost the battle. I see it quite often now.

> Are you objecting to its use for a single message, or to its use for a
> collection of messages?

The former.

> If the latter, complain to Royal Messages :-)

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Dave Swindell - 11 Feb 2004 22:58 GMT

>Recent talk in the news about spam has estimates that about
>half of all e-mail is spam these days. I doubt it. In the
>e-mail deluge that batters my inbox I would guess that about
>one message in ten thousand is non-spam.

This shows the difficulties of only seeing one's own email area. My
partner gets exceedingly few spams, and she has never subscribed to a
newsgroup in her life. One of my email addresses also gets none at all.
My main address, however, gets over 90% spams, about 70 a day. This
main address has been around for many years now, and in my ignorance, in
the early days of newsnet, I put the address un-munged into postings.
Perhaps most people don't subscribe to newsnet, and so don't make
themselves open to certain address-harvesting techniques.

>Obaue: Those -- including me -- who resisted the use of
>"e-mail" as an equivalent of "e-mail message" seem to have
>lost the battle. I see it quite often now.

What's the problem of thinking of an "email" as being equivalent to a
"letter". Saves a lot of finger bashing too ;-)

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