[43995] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Tue Oct 30 00:12:19 2001
From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:11:23 -0800
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>> I'm not sure I like the use of the word bulk. The reason is=
that it is
>>not precise. Is 10 bulk? 50? Is it only bulk if I use a =
"spam tool"?
>Bulk is more than 1 copy. How do I know if something is bulk?
>A simple test. Is this something that could have been sent to=
someone else
>with either no modification, or a trivial "mailmerge"=
operation.
>It then becomes up to the spammer to prove otherwise to his=
abuse desk, who
>will probably have received multiple complaints anyway.
=09I generally measure bulk in a more subjective but more useful=
way. If
someone composes ten pages of text and sends it to three people,=
I don't
consider that bulk. If someone sends one paragraph of text they=
composed to
fifty people, that's bulk. If someone ads 'look at this' to=
twenty pages they
stole from someone else and sends it to 10 people, that's bulk.
=09The test is, is this person trying to spread a minimum amount of=
original
content to the maximum number of people? Or is the content=
specifically
targeted to each person by a human being? In other words, is this=
a rifle
being aimed or a machine gun being sprayed? Is a person trying to=
use email
as a publishing means?
=09I have no objection if someone who honestly saw a message I=
wrote and
thought I'd be suitable for a particular job emails me asking if=
I'm
interested. However, the same email would be bulk if sent to=
everyone who
posts to NANOG, even if says, "I saw your post about "Re: Fwd:=
Re: Digital
Island sponsors DoS attempt" and thought you might be interested=
in buying
our premium fishing worms".
=09DS
