>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Leone <mleone@joemagee.com> writes:
Mike> From: Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
Mike> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:48:17 -0600 (MDT)
>> I though spam was any inappropriate and unsolicited message
>> sent out to a large number of email addresses - which is what
>> netvigator.com is doing... or does it matter that they are
>> doing it piecemeal, rather than in one big mailing.
Mike> No. Spam is UCE - Unsolicited *Commercial* Email. While
Mike> these messages are inappropriate (if they'd fix their
Mike> system, we wouldn't be getting them) and unsolicited (in
Mike> that we didn't ask for them), they are *not*
Mike> commercial. Therefore not spam, and therefore not subject
Mike> (or should not be) to RBL, spamfilters, legal decrees
Mike> against UCE, etc.
Mike, please do a "dict spam" (or look it up in the jargon file if you
don't have dict installed).
UCE is spam... but spam is not just UCE. Bruce is right.
Bye, J
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