On Tuesday 25 March 2003 06:46, gary wrote:
<dict spam> recipients. Synonyms include {UCE}, {UBE}. </dict>
Interesting and very unethical snip. I did *not* write that, so please don't claim that I did. If you snip things out of the middle of things I write, make clear what you snip
Your definition of spam comes dangerously close to including every single mail on a mailing list.
hardly.
Saying it won't make it so. You haven't opted in to mail from me either, so is this spam?
I say "possibly multiple", because I wouldn't call a single mail from, say, The Kompany announcing a new product spam. Multiple such mails would fall in that category.
Well if I received any announcement from the Kompany, at this particular time, regarding a new product, I would consider it spam.
Cheshire cat. You can call it spam but it's not the accepted definition.
Why, in order to receive "announcements," I would have to opt-in to get that info.. If I opted to receive that info, yes, I agree with you, it would not be spam ... the difference here is an opt-in option.
No, the issue here is the definition of spam. A single mail from a representative of the kompany would be off topic and possibly wrong (though informative), but it wouldn't be spam. also, opt-in refers to mail sent directly to you, not through mailing lists you voluntarily signed up to.
I do not opt-in for the Kompany, so any received mail from them would be considered unsolicited spam, and I would block their IP addresses in my own rblsmtp or DNS blacklist.
That is your option, but I'm not sure how that would help, considering that mail coming to you through SLE is sent from lists.suse.com, so blocking the kompany's IP would achieve exactly nothing.