Thank you for all the good info in your response. To answer your direct question: >I am curious, how do you define spam? Advertising in general? Or >certain types of advertisements? Some are of the notion that spam is >any unwanted mail that lands in your in-box, other think that only the >porno, mortgage ads, etc. with the rest being just unwanted mail. > > Jerry
Spam is what you used to take with you on camping trips. Along with vienna sausages, dried beans and (a little bacon in your limited space cooler). In the time before the big RVs. A fried spam sandwich is ok but I never bought into their spamburger. Yuk! How I define spam? The spam that requires action: At one time you receive 50 emails that the body is the same. The spammer has a nifty program that has changed the sender and subject line in each. I went on a search and destroy mission after this sob. XXX porn in the email. There were children here. Casinos. I've never been on the boat. General spam: Advertising and solicitations from entities that I have no contact with nor desire to, Or as defined at these sites: http://webopedia.com/TERM/s/spam.html http://spam.abuse.net/overview/whatisspam.shtml http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html#3.8 http://mail-abuse.org/standard.html --- Money the size of cotton bales is being passed out in Washington right now. Seems the NRA and the gun makers/sellers what to have immunity for producing/distributing firearms that were designed for the sole purpose of maiming and killing human beings. The right to bear arms? Their joke on you! You can't legally own what a revolution would require. OK, morals out the window: You have shot the tax sale sheriff. Is that Glock or cheap Chicom AK47 going to be any good against that tank or helicopter gunship that is coming your way? Robert Schenk 1821 Burdette Ave. Evansville IN 47714-5505 812-499-2874 You may be able to reach me at one of these addresses: grinnel99 at netscape.net grinnel99 at yahoo.com r_c_s1 at lyos.com Remember, cnet and zdnet shut down and deleted everyone's email WITHOUT warning! ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
