On Sun, 23 May 2010 17:39:19 EDT, Rich Kulawiec said: > As to the proper definition of spam (unsolicited bulk email): it's served > us very well for a long time.
But wait - is it in fact bulk? It generates (apparently) one outbound mail per request, although all of them *do* look alike, and they generate a lot of them per day. But then, the "lots of near-identical one-off mails per day" features are shared by all the 'please confirm your subscription request" mails sent by Listserv, MailMan, and other packages. So if the Facebook mail is spam, so is *every single properly run mailing list*. So tell me Rick - what's the spam-definition difference between what appears to be a "please confirm" request from Facebook, from a "please confirm" request from a proper mailing list, given that *both* can be caused to happen by a third party? I can spam you by sending you a Facebook invite, or I can spam you by sending a forged subscribe request to a properly run mailing list.
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