Author: Robin Smith
Date: 16:02:32 06/28/02
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On June 28, 2002 at 13:19:03, Roger D Davis wrote: >Spam is ANY unsolicited email with a commercial purpose. Spam is not about time, >but about boundaries. No one has a right to invade your email box without your >permission, regardless of how few seconds it takes to delete the post. Anyone >who unilaterally assumes that their unsolicited email represents information is >guilty of presumption, and will provoke controversy. > >Roger Your definition of spam is very unique. "Any unsolicited email with a commercial purpose". Wow. Since people virtually never "solicit" commecial e-mails this might just as well be "any e-mail with a commercial purpose". This definition of spam is also not what is generally provided at anti-spam sites. See for example the link provided by Sune Fischer (as an agument against the ICD e-mail??): http://spam.abuse.net/overview/whatisspam.shtml I really detest spam. But for me the ICD e-mail was NOT spam. It was missing an essential element of what, for me, constitutes spam: It was not sent to a mass mailing list of people 99.999+% of whom could care less about the content. In fact it was VERY carefully targeted towards people who had a VERY HIGH likelyhood of being interested. -R
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