At 11:09 PM -0600 6/4/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
From: "Peter Kay" <peter(_at_)titankey(_dot_)com>
...
Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk email
Bulk email is defined as the transmission of 2 or more emails via a
primarily automated process.
Unsolicited email is defined as email where the recipient has not
implicitly or explicitly approved of receiving email from the sender.
Sender can mean an individual or an organization.
A recipient implicitly approves of receiving email from a given sender
if the recipient has previously sent email to the sender and the
recipient has not explicitly requested to not receive further email from
the sender.
I'm sorry, but I find that last paragraph very wrong. Silence in the
face of spam is never consent to more spam!
I don't think that's what Mr. Kay's axiom says.
I am not sure that what he did say there is really universally
applicable, since it might imply that I am subscribing to Verisign's
spam by mailing one of their employees, but for most cases involving
individuals it is sound.
--
Bill Cole
bill(_at_)scconsult(_dot_)com
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