Re: Topica-Dot-Com Open For Business

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk @ gsp . org>]

On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 08:16:54AM -0600, Stephanie da Silva wrote:
> Michelle Dick <artemis@rahul.net>:
> 
> > Requests to publish another's information or verification of public
> > information can be classified as an execption to UCE being spam.
> > While it is, certainly, unsolicited, commercial, and email, I think it
> > is reasonable to make it an exception.
>  
> I think it depends on two things: the intent of the originator and
> how the message is perceived by the recipient.

Absolutely not.  To add either of these nebulous and unquanifiable
criteria to the definition of spam renders it unworkable in both a
practical and legal sense.

Again: the correct definition of spam is UBE, "unsolicited bulk email".
Anything which meets this criteria is clearly spam, regardless of
intent, regardless of how it's received, regardless of content,
regardless of the number of complaints.

---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@gsp.org