Re: Thinking outside the box

Richi Jennings wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Jose-Marcio Martins
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As long as we're interested on the spam problem, there are two things to be
>> clearly defined.
>
> IME, anti-spam researchers usually answer that pair of questions like this:

researchers of practitionners ?

> 1. It's not about content, it's about consent.

Right !

>
> 2. Spam is UBE -- unsolicited bulk email.
>   - Unsolicited means lacking informed consent.
>   - Bulk means automatically-generated (and does not imply large
> volumes). Compare with other definitions, notably UCE (the C being
> Commercial).
>   - Email... I'll leave that to your imagination.

Thank you very much for the definitions... Maybe I'm new to the field... 8-)

If you receive something like, say, 300-500 UCE (UNSOLICITED commercial 
email) a day in the same mailbox, maybe you're in your right of thinking 
that all that shouldn't reach your mailbox... No ?


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