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[Mike McCarty]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 22:06 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:

>> 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

Nope. The capitalization or non-capitalization does not affect the
trademark status in this case. If the word is used to refer to
unsolicited e-mail, it is not a use of the trademark, period, regardless
of capitalization.

If it is used to refer to the specially processed ham food, then it
is trademark.


> 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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