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Re: What is spam?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:48:32 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, James Brown writes:
> I think the common definition of spam has grown to include newsgroups and
> mailing lists.
I think it actually _started_ with newsgroups, and has since grown to include
mailing lists and other areas.
> For example, if some foolish person were to start posting
> " Make money at home!" messages on the Robotics mailing list, it would
> certainly be spam. (and they would certainly lose access) Likewise if
> someone did the same to lugnet.anything.
Ah yes, that's a great example! One single message, not necessarily having
been bulk e-mailed (but in the recent handyboard@media.mit.edu case, it was)
sent to an overly trusting mailing list exploder is still spam, yup! :)
--Todd
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) include (...) Yup, that's my memory also. I know lists existed when I started reading newsgroups, but there weren't very many (of course at that time, you could actually read the whole list of newsgroups also, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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