Please Provide Your Input On Adobe's Linux Software Development

[Rudolf Kastl]

2005/12/9, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
>
> 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.
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i got gimp ;))
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