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RE: [Asrg] Another criteria for "what is spam"...

Bill Cole <aarg@billmail.scconsult.com> Thu, 05 June 2003 14:32 UTC

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Subject: RE: [Asrg] Another criteria for "what is spam"...
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:21:54 -0400

At 11:09 PM -0600 6/4/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
>>  From: "Peter Kay" <peter@titankey.com>
>
>>  ...
>>  Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk email
>>
>>  Bulk email is defined as the transmission of 2 or more emails via a
>>  primarily automated process.
>>
>>  Unsolicited email is defined as email where the recipient has not
>>  implicitly or explicitly approved of receiving email from the sender.
>>
>>  Sender can mean an individual or an organization.
>>
>>  A recipient implicitly approves of receiving email from a given sender
>>  if the recipient has previously sent email to the sender and the
>>  recipient has not explicitly requested to not receive further email from
>>  the sender.
>
>
>I'm sorry, but I find that last paragraph very wrong.  Silence in the
>face of spam is never consent to more spam!

I don't think that's what Mr. Kay's axiom says.

I am not sure that what he did say there is really universally 
applicable, since it might imply that I am subscribing to Verisign's 
spam by mailing one of their employees, but for most cases involving 
individuals it is sound.
-- 
Bill Cole
bill@scconsult.com

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