From: Steven J. Sobol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > Personally, I have a very simple definition of spam: > > > > If I didn't ask for it and it comes from someone I don't > > know, it's spam. > > That's not a workable definition. If someone I don't know checks out my > website and emails me asking me to do some work for them, I don't consider > it spam, for example (one-to-one communication, in this case; for me to > consider it spam, it has to be unsolicited AND bulk). There has to be at > least one other component to the definition.
Like I said, that's my personal definition. I am not in the position of selling anything, so that situation doesn't apply to me. Obviously, that's not a workable definition for most businesses. Spam definitions have to be modified to fit the account. My spam definition above would probably work quite well for most home users. Business addresses (sales, info, support, etc) and technical addresses (webmaster, postmaster, etc) would need different definitions. It comes down to two questions: What emails do I not want to see in my inbox? How can I recognize and block them? Bowie
