On 10 July 2010 12:30, Santosh Helekar <chimbel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Noronha is manufacturing bogus controversies. > He is corrupting the meaning of the words > "harvesting" and "spamming" to smear people....
E-mail harvesting is the process of obtaining lists of e-mail addresses using various methods for use in bulk e-mail or other purposes usually grouped as spam... Another common method is the use of special software known as "harvesting bots" or "harvesters", which spider Web pages, postings on Usenet, mailing list archives, internet forums and other online sources to obtain e-mail addresses from public data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address_harvesting E-mail spam, also known as junk e-mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. "UCE" refers specifically to unsolicited commercial e-mail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam Everyone who has been a unwilling victim of the "spammers list" knows that this is exactly what happened (though no software was used to harvest address, it was done manually). I do not think it is very edifying to see grown men pour scorn and heap abuse on each other's head, by the bucketful, and believe that it is "debate". What is even more tragic is that some of the gentlemen on this list are highly qualified experts in their own respective fields. Have we Goans lost the gene for rational discussion? FN