Re: [Asrg] spammers and telemarketers

[Matt Sergeant <msergeant@startechgroup.co.uk>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Jed Margolin wrote:

> Many people have different definitions of spam.  Since spammers seem to be
> the Internet manifestation (or infestation) of telemarketing it might be
> instructive to see how the U.S. Government defines telemarketers:
> 
> From  http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/6106.html
> 
> U.S. Code  TITLE 15 > CHAPTER 87 > Sec. 6106.
> 
> "The term ''telemarketing'' means a plan, program, or campaign which is
> conducted to induce purchases of goods or services by use of one or more
> telephones and which involves more than one interstate telephone call.

Just so long as we don't limit the definition of spam to linking to goods 
or services. That rules out Nigerian Scams, and also the wierd 
"Uncertainty Probability is Untenable" guy (though that was worth getting 
for humour value, the first time around).

I'm still quite happy with the monkeys.com definition: 
http://www.monkeys.com/spam-defined/

Matt.

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