Paul Howarth wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 22:06 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
From the Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29
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Spamming is a kind of network abuse. It's the abuse of any electronic
communications medium to send unsolicited messages to someone in bulk.
While its definition usually extends to any unsolicited bulk electronic
communication, some exclude from the definition of the term "spam"
messages considered by the receiver (or even just the sender) to be
targeted, non-commercial, or wanted.
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It appears that this message was sent in bulk, without solicitation.
It also appears that you consider it not to be SPAM because you
don't object to it. But that does not (according to this article)
mean that others are required not to consider it SPAM.
So, I guess it's SPAM, and you are a SPAMMER.
"SPAM" is the Hormel meat product
"spam" is the scourge of the Internet
ref: http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
Nope. The capitalization or non-capitalization does not affect the
trademark status in this case. If the word is used to refer to
unsolicited e-mail, it is not a use of the trademark, period, regardless
of capitalization.
If it is used to refer to the specially processed ham food, then it
is trademark.
IMHO the OP's email was reasonably on-topic for this list (which was
solicited by all list members) and therefore not spam. However, in David
Cary Hart's case, where he received the email separately and
unsolicited, *that* was spam.
Paul.
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