[Foundation-l] spamming of the english wikipedia users detected

Matthew Britton matthew.britton at btinternet.com
Tue Jul 3 11:32:43 UTC 2007


Mark Williamson wrote:
> I don't know if I would call it spam.
> 
> Perhaps unpleasant or unwanted, but certainly not totally ridiculous.

Something doesn't have to be "totally ridiculous" to be spam.

An "unpleasant" and "unwanted" message copied to hundreds of users 
without their consent counts as spam, as far as I'm concerned.

I think the sender of these messages should be informed that it is not 
acceptable.

-Gurch




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