[747] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is SPAM? - was Re: Legislative Relief - was Re: Motion...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Payne)
Tue Oct 17 15:11:33 1995
From: Carl Payne <cpayne@optical.fiber.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 95 12:58:55 -0600
To: cat@system9.unisys.com (Cat Okita)
Cc: postel@isi.edu, com-priv@lists.psi.com, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: cpayne@optical.fiber.net
>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.
My suggestion:
The electronic posts commonly called "spam" are posts to mailing lists,
mailboxes, or newsgroups of a content inappropriate to the target
destination's charter, or posts inappropriately mass-delivered without regard
for their proper delivery.
You can advertise for bovine sex slaves all you want, but I don't want to see
the ad in comp.sys.next.sysadmin. You can write all the get-rich-quick
schemes and chain letters you want--they're not illegal--but you'd better be
sure you know where they're going.
Therein lies the sum of my argument.
Carl
