Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:29:45 +0100, Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
wrote:
>Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On 14 Apr 2006, Thiemo Seufer told this:
>>
>> > Ognyan Kulev wrote:
>> >> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> >>> "HAM" is not an acronym, so "Ham Radio" would be more appropriate.
>> >>>
>> >>> Even better (IMHO) is the full term "Amateur Radio", but some may
>> >>> disagree. I've CC'd debian-hams for their input also.
>> >>
>> >> Is there a problem with using "Amateur (Ham) Radio"?
>> >
>> > It is unnecessarily complicated.
>>
>> Do we really want to cater to people who are thrown off by
>> "(Ham)"?
>
>Yes. Debian shouldn't be the Linux Distribution of Cryptic Acronyms.
Actually, the word Ham is nowadays being used as the opposite of Spam,
"good, wanted" E-mail. I'm all for removing the misleading, outdated
expression for amateur radio.
Greetings
Marc
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