Re: Rubywand's new award! Plus, Answers

[pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) writes:

>In article <34fff812.146551331@roch-news>,
>Will Smith <wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com> wrote:
>>SPAM is defined as wasted bandwidth, right?  i see nothing
>>constructive in flames, and as such, they (flames) fall neatly into
>>the "SPAM" category....

>   Nope. Spam == UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), where people try
>and separate you from $ in your pocketbook. See http://www.cauce.org
>for more definitions, and what's being done to try and stop it.

That's my understanding of the word "SPAM" as well. Although, as I think
has already been pointed out, it isn't just UCE. It can be a news posting
to multiple newsgroups to which are not appropriate for the message, and it
need not even be for a commercial purpose: it may be advertising someone's
new website, for example.

I've always been amused by the whole Spam thing: the original Monty Python
SPAM song that gave birth to it, and how pissed off the manufacturers of
SPAM in the US must be about the basically derogatory usage their product
has become ;-)

>Nathan Mates
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