At 12:35 PM 6/19/98 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>OK. Add it all up and this still comes out with a slightly negative spam
>coefficient. In short, unless you are a real hard-core purist, it wasn't
>spam.
Too many terms. There is Spam (unwanted, forged, solicitous). There is UCE
(unwanted, commercial). There is UBE (unwanted, bulk marketing). Call me a
purist, but its all the same to me. Essentially, anything I didn't ask for
is Spam. Even if I am on a Web list, I don't like Web product
announcements. Just because the list may aimed at a particular audience
does not make targetted marketing valid. Only when it is a list maintained
by the mfgr is it acceptable. Otherwise, I never signed up for that kind of
junk.
Although there was no exchange of $$ proposed in this mail, there was still
some obvious marketing involved. I could accept that it was just an
off-topic post, but the fact that list-managers could hardly be confused
with something Intel/CPU-oriented makes the whole thing rather suspect and
I am not quite willing to be so tolerant. Forgiving, yes. Tolerant, no.
--bill
