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Re: Spam by proxy ?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:28:16 GMT
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jsproat@io.=nospam=com
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Requiring a join as a condition of sale/purchase is certainly legal in
> my book, but it's not a tactic I would use. Not sure I'd call it wrong,
> though. Nor is a note to you offering to purchase "spam", per se,
> Annoying, perhaps, but it doesn't fit the SPAM definition which has bulk
> mailing inherent in it. IMHO.
Just a nit-pick, I really have nothing else of value to add to this
discussion...
Spam doesn't need to be bulk-mailed to be spam. Spam is unsolicited
commercial e-mail (UCE). A one-off mailing is spam, just like the
100,000-message runs. The only difference is, the larger runs are more
stressful on the network.
However, in this case, the e-mails were solicited; Ray is selling something
and asking for buyers to contact him. So no, in this case, it isn't spam.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society
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| Sproaticus wrote in message <38AEFCE0.76021D39@io.com>... (...) NO! At least originally, spam had nothing to do with whether it was commercial or not. It was ANY new posting sent to a large list of newsgroups (I don't think it even necessarily has (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| Requiring a join as a condition of sale/purchase is certainly legal in my book, but it's not a tactic I would use. Not sure I'd call it wrong, though. Nor is a note to you offering to purchase "spam", per se, Annoying, perhaps, but it doesn't fit (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.theory)
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