On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:05 -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
I think of SPAM as a message used to profit the sender in someway.
It's unsolicited. In my book, thats all that matters.
I think that's a rather narrow view. If an old high school buddy sends me a message to catch up with me, that's unsolicited. Likewise, if someone reads one of my conference papers and sends me an inquiry about how I did the work. Neither of these would count as SPAM, I believe.
In order to exclude these, but include what I think is typically referred to as SPAM, I define it as being unsolicited and either commercial (motivated somehow by commerce) or bulk (many recipients receiving materially the same message). The commercial/bulk requirement is supposed to embody an "indiscriminating" quality, but I can't think of anything else objective that's more precise than that.
I'm sure some other people define spam differently, but in many cases their definition is not useful to me.
Anyway, that's my $0.02.
Adam
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