Matt Kettler wrote: "Therefore, to me, and many others, it doesn't matter how few messages there are, or how individual the message is. If it's unsolicited email of a commercial nature, it's spam. Period."
BTW - Matt, would an e-mail asking for link exchanges between web sites be considered "commercial". What about unsolicited political or non-profit e-mails? Also, regarding any major ISPs definitions of spam being any unsolicited message, I wonder how many actually enforce that? And, of the ones which do enforce it, I wonder many of these also block mail where one of their users simply forgot he subscribed to something or was just too lazy to unsubscribe and simply reported the non spam as spam. I've heard some horror stories where AOL blocked double-opt-in newsletters because of misguide complains from customers complaining about mail that they had actually opted into. Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] referred me to the spam laws: http://www.spamlaws.com Ironically, in these two replies to my original message so far, (from Matt and Matthew) (1) one cites U.S. laws which are a VERY loose definition of spam (2) The other has a much stricter definition of spam. In fact, SpamHaus's splits the difference between these two extreme definitions. http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html Does anyone else consider SpamHaus's definition as too weak and believe that ANY unsolicited e-mail is spam, even if a personally hand-typed note? Just an observation, if the only kind of unsolicited e-mail we ever received were personally typed solicitations and all other spam were eliminated, then there would have never been a need for SpamAssassin and 99.9999% of all spam would be gone. --Rob McEwen
