mathew <meta(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
Each of the following conditions is sufficient, but not
necessary, for an e-mail to be categorized as spam:
- It is from a source which it is hard or impossible for the
recipient to stop from sending further messages.
- It is unsolicited commercial bulk e-mail from an organization the
recipient does not have any prior relationship with.
- It is bulk e-mail from an organization the recipient does have a
prior relationship with, but the subject matter of the e-mail is
outside the scope of subject matter about which the recipient agreed
to receive e-mail from the organization.
- It is bulk e-mail from a source the recipient has requested not
send him any further e-mail.
The last one is merely a subset of the prior -- it is outside the scope
because the scope has been explicitly reduced to the null set. The
first one, in turn, could also be considered a case of the last one.
Also, the second is faulty in that such email needn't be commercial to be
spam. Remember the religious, political, and a few other kinds of spam.
--
David J. Aronson, Unemployed Software Engineer near Washington DC
See http://destined.to/program/ for online resume, and other info
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