Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:02:06 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics .. |
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:08:46PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Matt said someone was diverting email. diverting or intercepting email > is a crime in the US. > Perhaps Matt was wrong?
Or using words which have different sets of meanings for you (lawyer mind?) vs. me (technical mind).
Checking my two different Webster Dictionaries, the mainline meanings for the word seem to match also with ".forward" in usual UNIX email sense. (I really need to get also a good British English dictionary to verify PROPER forms of words and meanings ;) )
"intercept" - now that has definitely malicious meaning in it, but "divert" - not in my mind.
I have noticed that I have to watch myself, or I will start using terms like "killed the culprit", when less extremely worded real meaning is "deleted the (likely) culprit's subscription".
> :-) > > Jeff
/Matti Aarnio
PS: Please Jeff, my name is *not* Matt, nor Matthew, although all share same origins some 3000 years back in Hebrew... Understanding how that happened requires a review of European history for past 2000 years, which is not channel topic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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