According to Hormel, the usage of "spam" as a term to identify Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) is ok. However, it should not be confused with the term "SPAM" which is a registered trademark of the SPAM lunchmeat product they offer.
Here's a link. http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm Always curious how someone who owns a trademark feels when they're trademark is essentially hijacked by a community as a whole for use to describe the bain of all existance ;) > Subject: [Mimedefang] spam now a registered trademark for downloadable > software by Hormel > To: mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com > > The wonderful world of software patents and trademarks > > http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=76586902 > > Now time to avoid to offer "anti-spam" solutions / software :} Hormel > could that treat hostile. > > Alexander > _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
