Aahz wrote: > In article <87sk8r5v2f....@benfinney.id.au>, > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >>> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam. >> Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its >> distribution (to many people, e.g. via a forum like this one) and its >> content (off-topic and unsolicited). >> >> The message is important, its poster is a regular here; that doesn't >> stop the message being spam when posted here. > > That seems to miss the point to some extent. If I post my recipe for > spinach lasagne here, is that spam? I don't think many people would call > it spam, just an off-topic post. From my POV, spam is defined a bit more > narrowly.
Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial e-mail. So anything that isn't commercial (like those "send these to ten of your friends" emails) isn't spam (but it might just as well be). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
