From: "E. Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rob McEwen wrote:
Does anyone else consider SpamHaus's definition as too weak and believe
that
ANY unsolicited e-mail is spam, even if a personally hand-typed note?
I'm really curious as to how we would defined "solicited" e-mail. As far
as "bulk" e-mail goes, it's fairly easy. Do I solicit the jokes my
friends e-mail me? What about the chain letter that warns me about the
teddy bear virus? Or the endless petitions? Or the message that asks me
if I want to go catch a movie on Friday night?
With friends that's social email such as lubricates and feeds a
relationship. If I sign up for messages from someone I've done
business with that is email I want. (Conversely if I say no email
and I receive something it had best be close to "end of the Earth"
important to me.)
Personally, I worry far more about Bulk than I do about the Unsolicited.
I get plenty of e-mail that is unsolicited and unwanted - often from my
users. :) If it's unwanted but it is personal (or at least a forward)
and I can speak directly to the person who is responsible, then it's not
Spam to me. It may not be welcome, but it's not Spam. I'd even be pretty
lenient on the definition of "bulk", so as not to include those
irritating souls who forward everything they receive to their entire
address books.
Bulk schmulk - a line has to be drawn somewhere. I find it easier to
draw the line at the boundary between zero and one than to quibble
about whether it should be 1, 10, 100, 111, 333, 666, 1000, 1e9, or
Avogadro's number. I'm lazy in that regard. And I prefer to waste my
time my way. (Like commenting on this nonsense. {^_-})
{^_^}
