Re: Spectrum Automated Mailer (SAM)

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 24 Apr 2000 19:46:53 GMT, ljsilicon@aol.comSpamSUX (R.A.Guy) wrote:

>I keep seeing this title refered to as SAM. There was a program entitled SAM
>for both the GS and for the Mac that used that name. It was an early program
>that converted text to voice. With all of the concern around this board for the
>protection of copyrights; what about trademarks? To be legal, this product
>should never be refered to as SAM, only by its full title...

The product isn't called SAM.  We just refer to it as such to save us
from having to type Spectrum Automated Mailer all the time.  Many
people much prefer acronyms and use them to make it quicker to type
stuff.

For instance, we commonly refer to Apple's Video Overlay Card as the
VOC but I don't see Creative Labs, or anyone else for that matter,
getting upset because we are using the name for an audio file format.

By the way, I think the SAM you mentioned is also an ancronym for
Software Automated Mouth or something similar so even it isn't
actually called SAM.

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