---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:48:17 -0600 (MDT)
>On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mike Leone wrote: >> >> but as far as whether sending there spam back to them is a good or >> >> "Mailbox full" messages are NOT spam. Altho the "full" messages are just as >> annoying, spam is email for COMMERCIAL SOLICITATION. > >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. > No. Spam is UCE - Unsolicited *Commercial* Email. While these messages are inappropriate (if they'd fix their system, we wouldn't be getting them) and unsolicited (in that we didn't ask for them), they are *not* commercial. Therefore not spam, and therefore not subject (or should not be) to RBL, spamfilters, legal decrees against UCE, etc. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF --
