Re: What is SPAM? - was Re: Legislative Relief - was Re: Motion...
spam: Any posting which contains an advertisement of a product.
posting: Any peice of electronic material found either in a UseNet NewsGroup, public mailing list (listserv), or a private mailing list.
I really don't see what the big deal is in all this.
-- Dave Siegel President, RTD Systems & Networking, Inc. (520)623-9663 Systems Consultant -- Unix, LANs, WANs, Cisco dsiegel@rtd.com User Tracking & Acctg -- "Written by an ISP, http://www.rtd.com/ for an ISP."
This email has an advertisement in it - it's for RTD Systems & Networking. Should we call this spam??? Perhaps a more appropriate definition would be: spam: A posting to multiple newsgroup/mailing lists/? which contains as its greater part an advertisement of a product and/or is with regards to a topic of no relevance to the forums in which it has been posted. Spamming is not entirely commercial - I can't agree that the various obscene postings/mailings which appear in the same manner as spams like the magazine spam are commercial (aimed at titilating the poster, perhaps, but not at creating a profit for the poster). Cat
Perhaps a more appropriate definition would be:
spam: A posting to multiple newsgroup/mailing lists/? which contains as its greater part an advertisement of a product and/or is with regards to a topic of no relevance to the forums in which it has been posted.
My suggestion: The electronic posts commonly called "spam" are posts to mailing lists, mailboxes, or newsgroups of a content inappropriate to the target destination's charter, or posts inappropriately mass-delivered without regard for their proper delivery. You can advertise for bovine sex slaves all you want, but I don't want to see the ad in comp.sys.next.sysadmin. You can write all the get-rich-quick schemes and chain letters you want--they're not illegal--but you'd better be sure you know where they're going. Therein lies the sum of my argument. Carl
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