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

[Bill Cole <[e-mail]>]

At 7:33 PM -0400 6/3/03, 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.

Ungrammatical definitions provide no utility whatsoever.

If you are trying to say what I think you are trying to say, it's 
also neither necessary nor sufficient.

Spam is email which is sent without a well-founded belief on the part 
of the sender that he has the specific permission of the recipient to 
send that mail and which is substantially identical form to mail sent 
to multiple recipients.

In short: unsolicited bulk email.

I do not see why it needs redefining.
-- 
Bill Cole
[e-mail]

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