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.
Moreover, by your definition, your post above counts as spam. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list