Re: UKNM: Email marketers

[Tim Ireland]

"Steve Johnston" <

stevejohnston [dot] co [dot] uk

> said:

> > 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.


Usenet groups typically invite participation on a certain topic. Anything

off-topic is therefore unsolicited. Many charters also stipulate no

'commercial' messages - therefore *any* commercial messages (on topic or

not) will be visibly unwanted and therefore unsolicited.


Tim Ireland

Director of Marketing

www.designercity.com


PS - To throw a further spanner in the works, the definition you quoted can

also describe trolling.


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