Re: UKNM: Email marketers

[Steve Johnston]

> unsolicited = spam


I'd take modest issue with this simple definition.


Spam: "To post irrelevant or inappropriate messages to one or more Usenet

newsgroups or mailing lists in deliberate or accidental violation of

netiquette." courtesy of www.foldoc.org is the purist, old-timer definition.


I'd suggest therefore that:


irrelevant, inappropriate, unsolicited, bulk = spam


The 'irrelevance' outweighs the 'unsolicited' in the grand scheme of my

personal irritation at spam.


Steve.

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----- Original Message -----

From: Tim Ireland <

timdesignercity [dot] com

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To: <

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 11:21 AM

Subject: Re: UKNM: Email marketers



>

"Ashley Pomeroy" <arptermisoc [dot] org> said:

> > >>>>where 'email marketing' ends and 'email spamming' begins.<<<<

> >

> > Although technically spam is any mail which is repeated over and over

> > again, I think that dullness is the signifier.

> <snip>

>

> While this is a characteristic, the definition lies in:

>

> unsolicited = spam

>

> <disclaimer>

> Some site owners will use a few tricks that I've mentioned in the past to

> make web users 'opt in' without necessarily realising that they've done

so.

> There's other messy grey areas as well, but most of these are in the tiny

> little minds of the spammers themselves.

> </disclaimer>

>

> If I didn't ask for it - it's spam. Even if it's a pleasant surprise and

> could very well make me a millionaire or save the life of a little boy, if

I

> didn't ask for it - it's spam.

>

> Tim Ireland

> Director of Marketing

> www.designercity.com



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