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Subject:	Re: No more spam from Helge Viker
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date:	Wed, 10 May 2000 03:32:55 GMT
Reply-To:	mattdm@mattdm./Spamless/org
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Kevin Salm <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> wrote: > From my perspective, the use of the word SPAM [1] to define the offending email > is inappropriate. It can be assumed that the only recipients were known Lego [snip] Yes, technically it was Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE), or perhaps even Unsolicited Bulk Commercial E-mail. But these days the term "spam" (not upper-case SPAM Luncheon Meat, the trademarked, um, food product) is used as a generic term covering a whole host of ills. -- Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/ Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/

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		Re: No more spam from Helge Viker
(...) A happy ending for this episode, hopefully. I have been reading this thread as-it-happened (I get b-s-t via email) and one thing puzzles me about the whole affair. No one went on record to explain why the original email from Helge was, could, (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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