Re: Not News Standard, was Re: Sender header

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From: Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 00:42:12 CST


John Stanley wrote:

> Let's think this through, shall we. The "entity" when I post is me,
> a specific human being. But you want "entity" not to mean "a
> specific human being". Now, 6.2 says that the sender header contains
> the "mailbox of th entity which caused this article to be
> posted". Hmmm. If entity does not include human beings, specific or
> not, then I cannot be the sender. But I am. What a quandry.

There's another problem with your interpretation.

There is nothing that fits the referent "the mailbox of John
Stanley". (At least, that would be my guess. In my case, which of
the following is "the mailbox of Seth Breidbart": (1) sethb@panix.com;
(2) my work email account; (3) the small locked box in the lobby of my
apartment building; (4) the slightly larger box in the local Post
Office that I pay rent on?) Since _the_ implies a singular item, an
entity cannot be anything that does not map to a unique mailbox.

Seth


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