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Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics

Seth Breidbart <sethb@panix.com> Fri, 31 December 2004 17:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics
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Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
> Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>> If they are moving over port 25, its smtp traffic by design. Is is safe to
>> classify this traffic as "spam" by its nature? 
>
> Your point? I'm afraid we must not understand each other.

To put it more simply: email worms are spam.

They're sent in bulk.

They're unsolicited.

They're email.

So how would they not be spam?

Seth

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