Re: Module naming advice

That function (parameterized mail content) has long been referred as 'Mail Merge' by the word processing and secretarial types.

Of course, I cringe at the onslaught of spam e-mails generated by the module.

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Re: Re: Module naming advice by mr_stru (Sexton) on Aug 12, 2003 at 01:40 UTC
I guess is is mail merge. I am on the other hand hesitant to call it Mail::Merge as that rather implies it does mail merge in the word processing sense which isn't true. It's much more generic that that. And yup, I'm sure you could use it to spam people. But then the same is true of MIME::Lite, Mail::Mailer or the handily named Mail::Bulkmail. If the only application of the module was spam then you might have a point but as this isn't the case I don't see why this is relevant to the question. Struan	[reply]

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by mr_stru (Sexton) on Aug 12, 2003 at 01:40 UTC

I guess is is mail merge. I am on the other hand hesitant to call it Mail::Merge as that rather implies it does mail merge in the word processing sense which isn't true. It's much more generic that that.

And yup, I'm sure you could use it to spam people. But then the same is true of MIME::Lite, Mail::Mailer or the handily named Mail::Bulkmail. If the only application of the module was spam then you might have a point but as this isn't the case I don't see why this is relevant to the question.

Struan

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