[Gllug] A few words on the topic of stock spam

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:00:56PM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> I cannot see how you can simply define spam as 'unsolicated' email.
> 'Unsolicited BULK email' possibly, but then you have to define
> 'bulk'.  And if any email you did not specifically ask for is
> 'unsolicited', I presume that could mean that me sending an email to
> 50 friends inviting them to a party could be defined as 'spam'.  Ok,
> common sense says its not, but since when did laws ever incorporate
> common sense?

Programmers think that the law is like a big computer program, when in
fact it really is very much UNlike a computer program (and that's a
good thing).

The law is quite well-equipped for dealing with questions of intent
and degree.  It is quite reasonable to let a judge decide that sending
50 emails to invite your friends to a party once in a while is not
spam.  Whereas sending 10,000 emails, repeatedly, even when people
have asked you to stop, is spam.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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