Author: Robin Smith
Date: 18:00:47 06/28/02
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On June 28, 2002 at 19:57:22, Bruce Moreland wrote: >Targetted spam is still spam It would appear we differ on the definition of spam (and nothing else). Definitions of spam: dictionary.com: "Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail." webster.com: "unsolicited usually commercial E-mail sent to a large number of addresses" dictionary.cambridge.org: "unwanted e-mail, usually advertisements" It would seem that the dictionary.com definition is what I have in mind, the webster.com definition is what you have in mind (though even here I question whether the ICD mailing really goes to "a large number of addresses") and that the dictionary.cambridge.org definition (the third site I went to in an attempt to break the tie) is purely subjective; what what one person sees as spam because it is unwanted, for someone else that same e-mail is not spam because it is wanted. I can live with that. -Robin P.S. Even my 4th attempt to break the spam definition tie did not really do so: "Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings." so this definition is also somewhat subjective since it depends on one's definition of "junk". This 4th site did however have the most extensive elaborations on the definition and origin of the word spam, for those interested: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/spam.html
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