On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:05:46PM -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > > I think he may have used the wrong word to describe his message. I > think of SPAM as a message used to profit the sender in someway. In > which way does a FREE tool used to improve keyboard efficiency > profitable? (Unless it has spyware, in which case he should be banished > to Hades!) > > I do think his message would have done better in the mailing list, as a > suggestion to fellow computer users, probably even better in the UTWAA > mailing list, as it is a Windows application, but I do not see it as > SPAM. Just my personal opinion.
It was definitely spam. This was a form on the site that says, "You may submit constructive (or good, old-fashioned destructive) criticism using the following form." It's clearly a form for submitting feedback about the UUG website. His remarks were inappropriate. As far as profit is concerned, I think this guy is looking for glory in his own sort of way, which is a form of personal gain. If nothing else, I'd say that if the culprit even admitted that it was spam, there's no other way to interpret it. He, or his bot, found a text field and entered in a long rant. The form's designed use was clearly explained, but he flagrantly abused it. You'd have to do a lot to convince me it wasn't spam. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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