In e-mail, spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail. Lace and Lace-Chat are bulk e-mail, but they are solicited, and therefore are not spam.
(Messages from people who cracked our mailing list, and messages from people who joined under false pretenses, are not solicited and are spam.) The letter from your long-lost cousin or a person responding to something you said on the Web is unsolicited, but it's not bulk e-mail, so it is not spam. The bombardment of e-mails from an acquaintance who just *has* to forward every anecdote, lame joke, urban legend, and fake warning he can dig up to everybody in his address book is as annoying as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but you *did* give him your e-address. It isn't spam until he starts harvesting addresses from people he doesn't know. (But "Stop spamming me!" is a reasonable figure of speech. (Leastways it's more reasonable than taking a bolt cutter to his data cable.)) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
