[Foundation-l] for the future...

[Anthony]

On 7/6/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/6/07, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Let 's STAY on topic : unsollicited mail = spam
>
> I didn't "solicit" all of these complaints. Your complaint is spam by
> some definitions of that term. And if the retort comes, as I expect it
> will, that subscribing to foundation-l amounts to soliciting these
> well over 130 messages whining about spam (anyone see the irony?) then
> providing an email address *for other users to contact you* must also
> amount to "soliciting" personal communications by email.
>
Actually, I think the necessary clarification would be: unsolicited
bulk email = spam.  Had Gregory written to me individually to tell me
to vote in the election, I wouldn't have considered it to be spam.