The new charter seems to define spam as "problematic email".
Right.
An exact definition spam is a political topic, not a technical one,
and is not within the purview of ASRG. If you look at all the halfway
plausible definitions of spam, such as UBE, UCE, or mail that users
complain to their ISPs about, they all describe about 95% the same
mail, so for most purposes any definition will do.
For any proposed anti-spam topic or technique, it would be a good idea
to describe what it deals with. For the various LMAP proposals, for
example, it appears to me to be "mail sent from hosts other than ones
authorized by the owner of the domain in the envelope return address."
The question of a precise definition of spam has been beaten to death
at such length in so many places that I'm surprised to see it coming
up again.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com
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