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Subject:Re: What is a SME From:Susan Seifert <sseifert -at- FAIRFIELD -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:29:54 -0700
At 7:23 PM 2/15/96, PIP Mailbox wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:56:52 +0300
>>From: Chris Hulin <chrish -at- SPIDERNET -dot- COM -dot- CY>
>>Subject: Definitions please (short)
>>
>>I have two questions, the answers to neither of which are in my
>>dictionaries: * What's spamming? * What's an SME? Is it
>>"ess-em-ee" or "Smee". We haven't any where I work.
>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Chris
"Spamming" is to indiscriminately post messages all over the place,
regardless of how appropriate the messages are to the recipients. It is
derived from Spam, the *spreadable* luncheon meat, because you are
spreading your message all around.
SMEs are Subject Matter Experts. I pronounce it Smee (isn't that the pirate
in Peter Pan?) I'm sure you have SMEs where you work, they lurk everywhere.
If someone speaks or writes in passive voice, s/he's probably a SME.
