3rd party mail package
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Dec 18 17:12:50 EST 2019
On 12/18/2019 12:29 PM, Tobiah wrote:
> On 12/18/19 9:27 AM, Tobiah wrote:
>> On 12/14/19 1:13 AM, Barry wrote:
>>> I guess the 2nd party is the user.
>>
>> I think of the user as the first party.
>>
>> 1) I want a thing for python.
>>
>> 2) Python doesn't have a very good one
>>
>> 3) Someone else will give it to you
>
> Wikipedia disagrees with me:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_source
Each person in a transaction thinks of self as 'first person', other as
'second person'. But to avoid confusion, the convention for
asymmetrical transactions, something for money, is to call the
'something' provider the 'first person' or 'first party'. I believe
legal contracts are generally written this way.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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