Re: Let's try to be productive...

>I like your effort but if we can't agree on what is spam, and I think
>you'd be surprised, it's difficult to recommend where to put effort.

The usual definitions are unsolicited bulk mail or perhaps unsolicited
bulk commercial mail.

In practice, most of the definitions describe almost the same mail.

CAN SPAM, the worst, weakest spam law in the world, defines it as
commercial mail where the recipient hasn't told them to stop, along
with commercial mail that has fraudulent characteristics.  As weak as
it is, most of the spam you get violates CAN SPAM and the reasons
there's no action against the spammers has nothing to do with the
definition of spam.

The new Canadian law and all of the European laws define it as
unsolicited commercial mail, with various sized loopholes for B2B mail
or mail to people you already know somehow.

R's,
John
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