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Re: [Asrg] MTP draft

2003-03-04 11:17:34
Yes, but define "unsolicited" and "bulk"

C

On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 09:49 AM, Vernon Schryver wrote:

  - There is a single, common definition of spam that works.  It is
   "unsolicited bulk mail."  "Unsolicited" is determined by the target
unless the sender has creditable evidence that the target asked for the mail. "Bulk" is some number of substantially identical messages usually
   more than a dozen.

   There are many other broken definitions of spam, but they are all
   either over-elaborate variations of unsolicited bulk, based on
   notions of censorship (e.g. unsolicited commercial or pornographic
   mail), or lies and nonsense from spammers.

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