/applause!
Aloha, Michael. -- Michael J Wise Microsoft Corporation| Spam Analysis "Your Spam Specimen Has Been Processed." Got the Junk Mail Reporting Tool<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18275> ? -----Original Message----- From: mailop <mailop-boun...@mailop.org> On Behalf Of Michael Rathbun via mailop Sent: Friday, August 23, 2019 9:19 AM To: Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. <amitch...@isipp.com> Cc: Michael Rathbun via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> Subject: Re: [mailop] [ext] Re: Return Path / Sender Score On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:06:40 -0600, "Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop" <mailop@mailop.org<mailto:mailop@mailop.org>> wrote: >> Spam being unsolicited broadcast email, I would say that if you agree >> to receive it, it cannot be spam. This definition has held up well >> over the twenty-five years I've been involved in the industry. > >Indeed, and it was formalized in item (2) in the Vixie/Mitchell defintion of >spam, which was promulgated ~20 years ago: > >An electronic message is spam IF: (1) the recipients personal >identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally >applicable to many other potential recipients; AND (2) the recipient >has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable >permission for it to be sent; AND (3) the transmission and reception of >the message appears to the recipient to give a disproportionate benefit >to the sender. > >Interesting sidenote: While this definition was originally posted on the MAPS >website, lo those ~20 years ago, I note that it is now posted on thousands of >sites. At airmail.net back in those antediluvian days, we did policy enforcement based on the 'B' in UBE being "Bulk". When I spoke to someone whom we had terminated for sending UBE, he scoffed: "Bulk!? I only sent 11,000. BULK would be 100,000 or more." Consequently, I looted the world of network terminology to distinguish Unicast, Multicast, and Broadcast as basic classifications of messages, and we then declared the 'B' in UBE to stand for Broadcast. So, you only have to send two substantially identical messages to people who didn't give you explicit permission for us to hose you off the deck for spamming. This was in 1996. mdr -- "There will be more spam." -- Paul Vixie _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org<mailto:mailop@mailop.org> https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchilli.nosignal.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fmailop&data=02%7C01%7Cmichael.wise%40microsoft.com%7C3eb3a8982eea4e5dad3a08d727e60615%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637021741214020517&sdata=yUIGA5YuH7BVL5wRoUJ1fXLC5w63bHKvZhGLK6hoUxw%3D&reserved=0
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