 | | Re: Spam by proxy ? —Jeremy H. Sproat
| | | | (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Spam by proxy ? —Frank Filz
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Spam by proxy ? —Jeremy H. Sproat
| | | | | (...) I'm going by the definition as seen on news.admin.net-abuse.* . But see below... (...) Ah, the Monty Python definition. Very well then, by that meter (1), spam is any bulk news-posting and, by extention, any bulk e-mailing. Note that not all (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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