On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 04:20:20PM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > | > There are really only two ideal spam indicators: > | > > | > (1) Who sent it. > | > (2) What proportion of the people who got it, didn't want it. > > (3) Is my copy unsolicited junk?
Ah, now we're getting into the definition of "spam." If I send an unsolicted message to a dozen carefully selected people, am I spamming? How many people does it take to make it spam? Does the content of the message matter? If 10 of every 12 were glad to receive the message, is it still spam? If you were one of the 2 who weren't glad, does that make it spam? What if I only sent it to the 10 glad people but one of them resent it to you? What if one of the 10 glad people quit his job (or got fired) and set up a .forward file that redirects everything to you? What if the message that went through that .forward file had been solicited by the person who set up the forwarding? Our neighbor sent a dozen of her friends (including my wife) the stupid "Splat! You've been hit by a snowball in July!" chain letter, complete with 100k of background images and animated GIFs. Should we add her ISP's entire IP block to SPEWS? ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Oh, it's good to be a geek. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
