On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:21:20AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > (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?
That's not the issue. > 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 Yes. > 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 Then it's still spam. > message that went through that .forward file had been solicited by the > person who set up the forwarding? Then it's not spam, assuming you wanted the forward setup to point to you. If the forward was setup to point at you, and you didn't want it, then it's spam. > 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? I don't consider that spam per se -- If it comes from someone I know, it's a person who needs to be taught that chain letters are bad. If it comes from someone I don't know, it's spam. I relate email to postal mail, then extract a definition of spam: If I receive mail which I didn't request, whether it be commercial or not, that isn't a personal communication or regarding my community (information about elections, town ordinances, etc), it's junk mail. Therefore, I define spam as "electronic junk mail", and there you go. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "... and on that side you have a 50kg kid, and that's a pretty good sized kid..." - Prof. Farr ------------------------------------------------------- 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
