<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2005/12/9, Paul Howarth <<a href="mailto:paul@city-fan.org">paul@city-fan.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 22:06 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:<br>> taharka wrote:<br>> > Howdy,<br>> ><br>> > David Cary Hart wrote:<br>> ><br>> >> I got it too. I consider it to be spam and listed it accordingly. It
<br>> >> game from a third party and I never opted in. IMO, it is probably a<br>> >> CanSpam violation as well.<br>> >><br>> >><br>> >><br>> > Well, I don't know the source you got it from. I received it from a
<br>> > friend in the U.S. Military & not from a third party.<br>> ><br>> >> Now you are spamming this list.<br>> >><br>> >><br>> > No, not spamming this list. This is a legitimate survey & if you don't
<br>> > want to be bothered with it, simply don't fill it out.<br>> ><br>> > taharka<br>> ><br>> > Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.<br>> ><br>><br>> From the Wikipedia article<br>>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29</a><br>><br>> [QUOTE MODE ON]<br>><br>> Spamming is a kind of network abuse. It's the abuse of any electronic
<br>> communications medium to send unsolicited messages to someone in bulk.<br>> While its definition usually extends to any unsolicited bulk electronic<br>> communication, some exclude from the definition of the term "spam"
<br>> messages considered by the receiver (or even just the sender) to be<br>> targeted, non-commercial, or wanted.<br>><br>> [QUOTE MODE OFF]<br>><br>> It appears that this message was sent in bulk, without solicitation.
<br>> It also appears that you consider it not to be SPAM because you<br>> don't object to it. But that does not (according to this article)<br>> mean that others are required not to consider it SPAM.<br>><br>
> So, I guess it's SPAM, and you are a SPAMMER.<br><br>"SPAM" is the Hormel meat product<br>"spam" is the scourge of the Internet<br><br>ref: <a href="http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm">http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
</a><br><br>IMHO the OP's email was reasonably on-topic for this list (which was<br>solicited by all list members) and therefore not spam. However, in David<br>Cary Hart's case, where he received the email separately and<br>
unsolicited, *that* was spam.<br><br>Paul.<br>--<br>Paul Howarth <<a href="mailto:paul@city-fan.org">paul@city-fan.org</a>><br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com
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i got gimp ;))<br>