On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > 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.
Why not? > > 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? > > Then it's still spam. But does that make me (the sender) a spammer? It's far too common to equate "sender sent a message I consider junkmail" with "sender should therefore be prevented from sending mail to anyone I can manage to stop him from sending mail to." ------------------------------------------------------- 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
