On 2010-02-24 17:01 PM, Aahz wrote:
In article<mailman.194.1267045621.4577.python-l...@python.org>,
Steve Holden<st...@holdenweb.com> wrote:
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.
This accords with my understanding of the term and, it appears, that of
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup_spam
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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