RE: [Asrg] Another criteria for "what is spam"...

[Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com>]

> From: "Peter Kay" <peter@titankey.com>

> ...
> Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk email
>
> Bulk email is defined as the transmission of 2 or more emails via a
> primarily automated process.
>
> Unsolicited email is defined as email where the recipient has not
> implicitly or explicitly approved of receiving email from the sender.
>
> Sender can mean an individual or an organization.
>
> A recipient implicitly approves of receiving email from a given sender
> if the recipient has previously sent email to the sender and the
> recipient has not explicitly requested to not receive further email from
> the sender.


I'm sorry, but I find that last paragraph very wrong.  Silence in the
face of spam is never consent to more spam!

Consent to unsolicited bulk email must always be explicit and precede
first message.  It does not matter how the consent is expressed,
whether by a proper mailing list subscription including confirmation
or some other message.  It does matter that spam is spam even it
claims "There is no need to unsubscribe since this is a one-time mailing."
(That phrase was once very common in spam.  It's more common now )

Other bits of that definition are objectionable because they are
distracting and irrelevant.  It does not matter whether an advertisement
is sent in batch of 1000 or if the energetic and desperate salesperson
addressed and "targeted" each copy manually and so doesn't manage to
send more than 5000 before running out of time to "make quota."


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com
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