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Re: What is spam?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:02:27 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@antispamNOVERA.COM
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I'm going to stick by the definition as it's commonly accepted. Spam is
unsolicited bulk email. Bulk in that it wasn't written by a human and
isn't personal to you. Unsolicited in that you didn't ask for it. A
mailing list or distro list that you're on doesn't emit spam unless you
were placed there against your will.
Taglines on siggies are not spam. They're merely adverts inserted into
real mail.
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| (...) <nitpick> 'written by a human' notes can be spam. If I get my dirty little hands on an address list, and handwrite a (whatever), then send it to all gazillion of them, it can still qualify as spam. Most of the chain e-mails out there were, at (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| [I'm going off on a bit of a tangent here...] (...) I wonder, though -- couldn't such a message theoretically _contain_ "spam" even if the message as a whole isn't considered "spam"? For example, when I see something at the bottom of an email (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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