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

[mathew <[e-mail]>]

On Tuesday, Jun 3, 2003, at 19:33 US/Eastern, Barry Shein wrote:
> I've been thinking about the various definitions of "spam" and thought
> of another criteria which isn't necessarily mutually exclusive but
> captures something important:
>
>   Spam is e-mail from a source which is hard to impossible for
>   the recipient to stop and/or reasonably prevent from receiving.

Yes, this is good. This is a sufficient, but not a necessary, condition 
for something to be classed as spam.

Perhaps the way to come up with an acceptable definition of spam is to 
enumerate sufficient conditions, rather than to attempt to encapsulate 
both necessary and sufficient conditions within a single definition.

So... Each of the following conditions is sufficient, but not 
necessary, for an e-mail to be categorized as spam:

- It is from a source which it is hard or impossible for the recipient 
to stop from sending further messages.

- It is unsolicited commercial bulk e-mail from an organization the 
recipient does not have any prior relationship with.

- It is bulk e-mail from an organization the recipient does have a 
prior relationship with, but the subject matter of the e-mail is 
outside the scope of subject matter about which the recipient agreed to 
receive e-mail from the organization.

- It is bulk e-mail from a source the recipient has requested not send 
him any further e-mail.


mathew

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