On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > Now, as a question of policy, are the half-dozen daily "unsubscribe" > messages from those too illiterate to comprehend a two-line instruction > added in caps to every message on the list considered spam? They're > certainly unsolicited (nobody wants 'em) bulk (they're bothering > everyone on the list) e-mail. What about challenge-response junk, false > bounces from misconfigured spamfilters, and out-of-the-office replies?
All of those are SPAM, if you go by the "It is utterly useless crap *AND* it is off-topic *AND* it was generated by layer 8 malfunction or by viruses or by autoresponders *AND* it did not spawn a thread". After all, if people started replying to a SPAM and it made a thread out of it, no matter how off-topic for the list that thread is, the entire thing (spam included) it is probably best left alone in the archives. PS: layer 8: refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model, "Humor". -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
