I believe this is why services such as Yahoo email started calling it "bulk" instead of "spam". I also call it bulk to my users for the same reason.
It's much easier to define bulk than it is to define spam. Spam is in the eye of the beholder as you can even see on this list. But I must say, some people on the list appear to be giving their own personal opinion as if they are only referring to their own email inbox, without regard to users on their system. Maybe they are not really administrators of multi-user systems, I don't know. If they are administrating large systems I would have to wonder what secret lists they had developed. But if you do manage multiple users accounts, you have to provide industry standard anti-spam protection without blocking on your own definition of "spam". Now if you are only talking your own email box, you can define every email except emails from your mom as spam, not much of anyone would give a hoot what you block in your own inbox. AOL went nazi with their anti-spam several years back. I think they were considering charging to email their users even. That would have proved for sure to AOL you were not spam, because you paid them! LOL Kinda like some RBLs I have seen and would never use (ie, blars crapola). > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob McEwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:19 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: When is Bulk "Bulk" > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >BTW, before we go too far down this rabbit-hole, everyone please note > >that actually, the SpamAssassin project *does* have its own definition > >of spam: that being Unsolicited Bulk Email. > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Spam > > > >We could have a very long discussion about this again, but please, let's > >not. it's already been done ;) > > ...which contrasts the position many on this thread have expressed. > > But it is worth noting that this **official** SA definition of spam is > pretty much the same as SpamHaus's definition. > > Furthermore, on SpamHaus's page, they describe their "Unsolicited Bulk > Email" standard as being "the industry standard". (see last paragraph on > http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html ) > > --Rob McEwen > > >
