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Re: Spam by proxy ?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:53:44 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Frank Filz writes:
> 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.
I'm going by the definition as seen on news.admin.net-abuse.* . But see
below...
> 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).
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 bulkage is bad (though all is certainly so when targeted towards usenet.)
A very good example is a discussion-oriented mailing list. Another excellent
example is a customer support mailing list. Typically, people who receive
these bulk mailings exert some effort to subscribe to them. So, by the
definition you've accepted, not all spam is bad.
But unsolicited spam is bad. Unsolicited commercial spam is even more so.
The big issue here is cost-shifting of advertising. The advertisers are
making all of *us* pay for their "business".
But I'm not going to take this even further, lest I subscribe to
.market.theory . I think the other sub-thread is covering this topic very
nicely.
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. Pun intended. :-,
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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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