At 10:02 PM 4/22/99 -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>At 9:22 AM -0400 4/21/99, Tom Neff wrote:
>> IMRSS open-relay notification is NOT spam because it is an Internet public
>> safety function.
>
>Watch out, this is a slippery slope. If I decide it's a public safety
>function to start warning internet users that Jesus is coming and to
>repent before he arrives, then by your definition, what I'm doing
>isn't spam (after all, what is a few open relays compared to saving
>all of your souls?)
Gotta agree with Chuq here. This is essentially the same justification
that topica.com used for their content based spamming.
I believe that, in the dim dark past, someone did run a scan and notify
postmasters of open relays. I don't think that IMRSS is doing this and if
they were, I'd call it spam.
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