Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: request for review for a non FUSSP proposal)
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Subject: Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: request for review for a non FUSSP proposal)
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>> The canonical definition of spam (in the context of email) was >> settled on a very long time ago ("unsolicited bulk email") [...] > Frankly, I don't like that definition. Specifically it misses an > important class of spam - well targeted, individualised, unsolicited > marketing messages which are necessarily unique (and hence not bulk). The "bulk" in UBE is the same one in the Briedbart Index for Usenet: they have to be substantively identical. Form-letter "personalization" of the "Dear %s, [invariant text]" kind does not make them non-bulk. Neither do hashbusters or randomized spelling errors. However, if they are individualized in the sense that they don't use invariant text, each one being written for the particular recipient, then they're not spam, even if they are unsolicited and/or unwanted: they may be problematic, but at worst they are abuse _on_ the net, not abuse _of_ the net - that is to say, that problem, even if it _is_ a problem, scales just fine. Just don't think "spam" needs to include all problematic email (or something equivalent, such as "if it's not spam it must be OK"). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
- [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: request … J.D. Falk
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Douglas Otis
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Rich Kulawiec
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Seth
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Seth
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Seth
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… der Mouse
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… der Mouse
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria is missing Ou… Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Seth
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria is missing Ou… Douglas Otis
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… J.D. Falk
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Douglas Otis
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Claudio Telmon
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Dave CROCKER
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Claudio Telmon
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Michael Thomas
- Re: [Asrg] No, we're not going to define spam John Levine
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] No, we're not going to define spam Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Claudio Telmon
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Rich Kulawiec
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria is missing Ou… Douglas Otis
- Re: [Asrg] really, we're not going to define spam… John Levine
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria is missing Ou… Danny Angus
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Danny Angus
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Steve Atkins
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Seth
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Claudio Telmon
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Claudio Telmon
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria is missing Ou… Douglas Otis
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: requ… Danny Angus
- Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria is missing Ou… Danny Angus