>...
>E. Falk wrote:
>> Rob McEwen wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone else consider SpamHaus's definition as too weak and believe
>>> that
>>> ANY unsolicited e-mail is spam, even if a personally hand-typed note?
>
>Hmm, how about "Hi, I see you have a link on your web page to my site at
>XYZ. I'm moving to ABC, and would appreciate it if you would update
>your link. Thank you."
>
>Assume that the target does, indeed, have a link to the old location of
>the site in question (and that it wasn't inserted by a link spammer),
>and that the site really is moving to the new URL provided.
>
>Unsolicited. Potentially bulk. But is it spam?
>
>--
>Kelson Vibber
>SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
>
A carefully constructed case, but it probably would not be spam,
because the link itself is evidence of an existing relationship (whether
or not the linker had intended to create one). Normally, I count either
UCE or UBE as spam - if I don't know you and didn't ask for it, then it
is unsolicited and probably easily fits one category or the other (there
are also obvious exceptions, like an email attempting to establish a
non-commercial relationship); But if I have published a link to your
site, I have created a relationship, even if I didn't intend to. There
are such things as implied consent, and IANAL, but this probably falls
into that situation.
Paul Shupak
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
