In article <mailman.194.1267045621.4577.python-l...@python.org>, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >Aahz wrote: >> In article <87sk8r5v2f....@benfinney.id.au>, >> Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >>> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >>>> >>>> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam. >>> >>> Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its >>> distribution (to many people, e.g. via a forum like this one) and its >>> content (off-topic and unsolicited). >>> >>> The message is important, its poster is a regular here; that doesn't >>> stop the message being spam when posted here. >> >> That seems to miss the point to some extent. If I post my recipe for >> spinach lasagne here, is that spam? I don't think many people would call >> it spam, just an off-topic post. From my POV, spam is defined a bit more >> narrowly. > >Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial >e-mail. So anything that isn't commercial (like those "send these to ten >of your friends" emails) isn't spam (but it might just as well be).
That's roughly correct, but I also think that if someone posts the same message to five mailing lists, it's not unreasonable to call that spamming. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
