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

[Dave Aronson <dja2003@hotpop.com>]

mathew <meta@pobox.com> wrote:

 > Each of the following conditions is sufficient, but not
 > necessary, for an e-mail to be categorized as spam:
 >
 > - It is from a source which it is hard or impossible for the
 > recipient to stop from sending further messages.
 >
 > - It is unsolicited commercial bulk e-mail from an organization the
 > recipient does not have any prior relationship with.
 >
 > - It is bulk e-mail from an organization the recipient does have a
 > prior relationship with, but the subject matter of the e-mail is
 > outside the scope of subject matter about which the recipient agreed
 > to receive e-mail from the organization.
 >
 > - It is bulk e-mail from a source the recipient has requested not
 > send him any further e-mail.

The last one is merely a subset of the prior -- it is outside the scope 
because the scope has been explicitly reduced to the null set.  The 
first one, in turn, could also be considered a case of the last one.

Also, the second is faulty in that such email needn't be commercial to be 
spam.  Remember the religious, political, and a few other kinds of spam.

-- 
David J. Aronson, Unemployed Software Engineer near Washington DC
See http://destined.to/program/ for online resume, and other info

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