Re: (Fwd): draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-03.txt

[email protected] wrote:
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> ----- Forwarded message from Steve Linford <[email protected]> -----
> 
> > From: Steve Linford <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:52:17 +0000
> > Subject: draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-03.txt
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Little error/ommission which is important to correct:
> >
> > in draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-03.txt
> >
> >       2.1.2.  Spam
> >
> >               ...
> >
> >               Unfortunately, there is no accurate definition of spam
> >               availabe
> >               yet
> >
> > There certainly is an accurate definition of spam, and which is
> > supported by all anti-spam organizations, the definition of spam is
> > here: http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html

Although I have no argument with that as _A_ definition of SPAM, the word
``all'' in that sentence is suspect and there are other definitions of
SPAM that disagree with that definition.

> >
> > The problem of any document saying "no accurate definition exists" is
> > that the Direct Marketing Association will use that to issue their own
> > "accurate definition" of spam as being "that which our members do not
> > send".
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >   Steve Linford
> >   The Spamhaus Project
> >   http://www.spamhaus.org
> 
> - ----- End forwarded message -----


Raymond S Brand