Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> writes: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:39:08 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Spam is better defined as unsolicited bulk messaging. Whether it's > > commercial in nature is irrelevant. The content is relevant only in > > that it's unsolicited by the vast majority of its many recipients. > > Not quite. > > I've read tens of thousands of messages to comp.lang.python, and > solicited perhaps some hundreds. Are all the rest spam? I should say > not! I haven't solicited them: at no point did I say, explicitly or > implicitly, "Hey strangers all over the world, send me messages asking > questions about Python"
By subscribing to the forum, I maintain that you do exactly that. > but I do welcome them. Whether they're welcome or not, they're solicited in the sense of being delivered to the recipient who explicitly asked to receive messages on a particular range of topics. When a message that is well outside the nominal range of topics for a forum is broadcast to recipients by means of that forum, the message is unsolicited. -- \ “All my life I've had one dream: to achieve my many goals.” | `\ —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
