Koen Martens wrote:
The message you are reading right now is solicited bulk e-mail.
It's being sent to you by the listbox.com mail server, and it's
also being sent to hundreds, if not thousands, of other people.
That's what "bulk" means, isn't it?
But it's not spam.
It would be if my partner were also accidently to receive this email. He
wouldn't know what all this RFC, header, envelope sender bussiness is about
and complain that he is getting junk email in his inbox from some spammer
calling itself listbox.com. He wouldn't take time to read it (who reads
spam anyway?), he would simply click on the 'make filter' menu option in
his mta.
Your partner wouldn't have solicited the mail, hence to him it would be
Unsolicited Bulk Email, i.e. spam, and he would quite rightly treat it as such.
Of course if you and your partner share a mailbox then it's not reasonable for
either of you to label mail as spam without checking that the other person did
not solicit it.
Paul.