Re: What is SPAM? - was Re: Legislative Relief - was Re: Motion...

[cat () system9 unisys com (Cat Okita)]

spam:  Any posting which contains an advertisement of a product.
> posting:  Any peice of electronic material found either in a UseNet NewsGroup,
>         public mailing list (listserv), or a private mailing list.
>
> I really don't see what the big deal is in all this.
>
> -- 
> Dave Siegel                    President, RTD Systems & Networking, Inc.
> (520)623-9663                  Systems Consultant -- Unix, LANs, WANs, Cisco
> dsiegel () rtd com                     User Tracking & Acctg -- "Written by an ISP, 
> http://www.rtd.com/                                            for an ISP."

This email has an advertisement in it - it's for RTD Systems & Networking.
Should we call this spam???

Perhaps a more appropriate definition would be:

spam: A posting to multiple newsgroup/mailing lists/? which contains
        as its greater part an advertisement of a product and/or is
        with regards to a topic of no relevance to the forums in which
        it has been posted.

Spamming is not entirely commercial - I can't agree that the various
obscene postings/mailings which appear in the same manner as spams
like the magazine spam are commercial (aimed at titilating the poster,
perhaps, but not at creating a profit for the poster).

Cat