Please Provide Your Input On Adobe's Linux Software Development

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Dec 9 07:51:13 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 22:06 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> taharka wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > David Cary Hart wrote:
> > 
> >> I got it too. I consider it to be spam and listed it accordingly.  It
> >> game from a third party and I never opted in. IMO, it is probably a
> >> CanSpam violation as well.
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> > Well, I don't know the source you got it from. I received it from a 
> > friend in the U.S. Military & not from a third party.
> > 
> >> Now you are spamming this list.
> >>  
> >>
> > No, not spamming this list. This is a legitimate survey & if you don't 
> > want to be bothered with it, simply don't fill it out.
> > 
> > taharka
> > 
> > Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
> > 
> 
>  From the Wikipedia article 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29
> 
> [QUOTE MODE ON]
> 
> Spamming is a kind of network abuse. It's the abuse of any electronic 
> communications medium to send unsolicited messages to someone in bulk. 
> While its definition usually extends to any unsolicited bulk electronic 
> communication, some exclude from the definition of the term "spam" 
> messages considered by the receiver (or even just the sender) to be 
> targeted, non-commercial, or wanted.
> 
> [QUOTE MODE OFF]
> 
> It appears that this message was sent in bulk, without solicitation.
> It also appears that you consider it not to be SPAM because you
> don't object to it. But that does not (according to this article)
> mean that others are required not to consider it SPAM.
> 
> So, I guess it's SPAM, and you are a SPAMMER.

"SPAM" is the Hormel meat product
"spam" is the scourge of the Internet

ref: http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm

IMHO the OP's email was reasonably on-topic for this list (which was
solicited by all list members) and therefore not spam. However, in David
Cary Hart's case, where he received the email separately and
unsolicited, *that* was spam.

Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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