Re: IMRSS humans and IMRSS bots

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk @ gsp . org>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 04:16:43PM -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
> So that in itself distinguishes it from
> spam, which is commercially motivated bulk email.

Wrong.  Completely, utterly, totally wrong.

Spam is slang for "unsolicited bulk email".  The purpose or motivation,
the content, the sender, the recipients, the method (e.g.  directly
sent or relayed)  are all completely irrelevant in this definition, as
they should and must be.

---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@gsp.org