Settle a debate for us......Please!!

bossymoo

retsbed wrote: »

Well what if you say that you are going spam an email?

I don't think you can spam an email. You can spam someone's inbox by sending them an unwanted email. But an email itself either is spam, or isn't spam. if that makes sense.

Accounts get spammed. Emails are spam. (Or not, )

GoBoldly

Cant reply I am too busy De-spamming my email

bod1467

retsbed wrote: »

Well what if you say that you are going spam an email?

I wouldn't. And I don't think anyone else would either (except you obviously).

Mr_Toad

retsbed wrote: »

Well what if you say that you are going spam an email?

You'd be talking rubbish.

You can't spam and email, you might as well say you're going to mondeo or Paul an email.

The words 'going to' imply an action and you need a verb to describe the action not a noun.

You can send, verb, spam, noun, an email.

poppellerant

I would say "mark an email as junk" as that is exactly what I do when I find a junk email straying into my inbox.

RobTang

Mr_Toad wrote: »

You'd be talking rubbish.

You can't spam and email, you might as well say you're going to mondeo or Paul an email.

The words 'going to' imply an action and you need a verb to describe the action not a noun.

You can send, verb, spam, noun, an email.

A single word can be both a noun
and a verb (and adjective and adverb in some cases..).


And as I listed before its generally accepted by dictionaries that Spam is a verb as well, in the same way Mail mean both letters(n) and the act of sending those letters (v).




I do like the idea of "de-spam" to be the verb for it however

Mr_Toad

RobTang wrote: »

A single word can be both a noun
and a verb (and adjective and adverb in some cases..).


And as I listed before its generally accepted by dictionaries that Spam is a verb as well, in the same way Mail mean both letters(n) and the act of sending those letters (v).




I do like the idea of "de-spam" to be the verb for it however

True.

I'd never really given it much thought but yes it's called spam and then there's to spam I suppose.

I think I'll go and lie in a darkened room for a while now :rotfl:

WilliamO

What a shame you people haven't got the brains to research this thing called the internet and more precisely the Ask Oxford (English Dictionary) website - SPAM IS A VERB:


http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/spam?q=spam


Dumb Asses!!!

John_Gray

"Most every noun can be verbed..." (American motto)

poppellerant

WilliamO wrote: »

What a shame you people haven't got the brains to research this thing called the internet and more precisely the Ask Oxford (English Dictionary) website - SPAM IS A VERB:


http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/spam?q=spam


Dumb Asses!!!

That's a very polite and sensible post, isn't it? You've stooped to the low level of name calling those with a lack of knowledge of computer jargon/terminology.

What a shame.