At 01:44 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, Bob Wyman wrote:
Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
> spam = "any email that does not have consent from the receiver"
I don't think so...
It may be hard to define "spam" but that doesn't mean that we
should just accept definitions that don't make sense. There is, I
believe, a class of "unwanted" messages that the average person would
not consider to be "spam."
For instance, a message from an ex-boy/girlfriend might be
unwanted but wouldn't normally pass the "smell test" for what is spam.
Similarly, a message from your mother which might have been rejected by
your spam filters because it was formatted in HTML (she doesn't know any
other way to send it...) wouldn't really be considered "spam" by the
average person.
A human being expresses consent for specific messages. The consent system
tries its best to implement those wishes. Unfortunately the wishes of
humans and the results of computers do not necessarily match. There is a
need for a distinction between consent expressed by a human being and how
this consent is implemented by computers. However, the bottom line is that
any message that a human receiver does not want - does not consent to, is
considering spam according to that person.
Yakov
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