Spams liek most other terms, it suffers from definition leakage at he perimeters.
I dont think anybody is comparing you to spammers that bulk-email millions of people with dodgy adverts. But it seems from the history of this list so far, that there are a few other factors which can cause people to use the 'spam'label in a bit of a broader sense. Factors that increase this risk seem to include; Frequency of posts, percentage of time that content is about self, urgency of requests to check own stuff out, length of signature compared to length of post. Its all very grey, so I deadly hope people can manage not to take offense if they are ever called a spammer. People can sometimes use the term in afectionate, half-joking ways, or if they personally find the style of a particular persons posts to be something thats just a bit too much for their tastes. The worst possible outcome of being called a spammer is if it causes a strog reaction and you stop posting completely, or spend too much time worrying about how much its ok to post, and stuff like that. Its hard, I dind it much the same as the phenomenon of life in general where you want someone to cool it down just a tiny bit, but are unsure how to say it in a way thats productive not negative and destructive. Of course it wasnt me that called you a spammer and Im really not in a position to be telling anybody how it is with this issue, these are just my personal thoughts. Its ort of related to the other ocassionally occuring phenomenon such as people getting annoyed with a subject and requesting the list stop talking about it. Inevitable parts of email lists, potentially easy to deal with productively but also always the risk that any once instance will go wrong and cause human emotional suffering. Other way to put it: being labelled spam when you arent conciously spamming is probably more painful than receiving spam. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kunga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this ok? And how is it you think I am spamming? I don't think so. > I guess I needed to be hit over the head to know what others perceive > as spam which I do not? > > May I include a photograph once a day? I wish all of you would. I got > mine down to 4k. I thought I was being creative. > > Taylor Barcroft > Santa Cruz CA Beach of the Silicon Valley > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia><http://FutureMedia.org> > Now listed in the iTunes Podcast Directory. FutureMedia, or future, > media, parties, taylor, barcroft ... > > > On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Clint Sharp wrote: > > > Anders Clerwall wrote: > > > > > >> Since I'm not afraid of you either Taylor, I'll ask you to please > >> remove that 12K image you include in your mails. > >> Eats my gmail storage slowly but steadily, especially since you're > >> quite active on this list. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> -- > >> Anders Clerwall > >> blog: http://iscav.com/ > >> vlog: http://randomshow.com/ > >> > >> > > Quite couragous of you, Anders. I was trying to muster up the > > courage myself when I saw your post, and a wave of relief swept > > over me when I realized I would not have to again try to talk to > > Taylor about the length of his signature (which is still quite > > long, and not seperated in any way from the rest of his email which > > makes it hard to tell where the email ends and the signature > > begins). Thanks for taking that bullet for me... > > > > Clint > > > > -- > > Clint Sharp > > New Media Guy & Technologist > > ClintSharp.com Contact Info: http://clintsharp.com/contact/ > > > > We are the media. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
