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Re: Spam by proxy ?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:49:04 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote in message <38AEFCE0.76021D39@io.com>...
> 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.
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 to be inappropriate for the
newsgroups). When the term originated, there was almost no commercial use of
the newsgroups (in the sense of soliciting business, there were plenty of
corporations using news to communicate technical [and recreational]
knowledge).
Frank
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| (...) 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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| | Re: Spam by proxy ?
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| (...) 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)
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