I've been thinking about the various definitions of "spam" and thought
of another criteria which isn't necessarily mutually exclusive but
captures something important:
Spam is e-mail from a source which is hard to impossible for
the recipient to stop and/or reasonably prevent from receiving.
I think the loss of control is very much at the heart of spam and many
other attempts at definition dance around this somewhat.
We could add the usual unwanted, unauthorized qualifications to that
(I may not want to hear from my sysadmin but s/he's authorized, etc.)
but it would just make this note much longer and I think it's enough
to toss out the basic idea.
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-Barry Shein
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