[IP] more on anti-Goodmail coalition resorts to misquotes
Begin forwarded message:
From: Frode Hegland <frode@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: March 22, 2006 4:56:21 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more onapprove:sagapo more on anti-Goodmail
coalition resorts to misquotes
Maybe there should also be a maximum number of messages before it's
called SPAM.
For example, I am working on promoting our Hyperwords Extension for
Firefox (you know, makes all words interactive, not just links). I
therefore email editors, bloggers and others (friends, friends of
friends and friends of friends and whomever I can think of!)
They have not asked for my emails. Hyperwords is free, but we do aim
to make money from it. It is therefore a commercial message.
If it's just one email per person, sent manually, with a proper name
in the header, is that SPAM? How about if I send 20 messages to
people in my address book? Or 2,000? When does it become SPAM?
Is it only SPAM if it's a commercial message? Or just that it's not
'wanted'?
Hey, I hate SPAM, it's just that defining what it is, is not
completely obvious to me. As an aside, I have sometimes clicked on
the links in SPAM to see what kinds of sites are stupid enough to
send the strange messages, with misspellings and weirdness. Not once
have I got a real site! None have worked! How do they make money? Is
this maybe just one great absurdist art project? :-)
On 22 Mar 2006, at 21:31, David Farber wrote:
The rule should be simple -- proven, audited opt-in lists or it's
spam.
Frode Hegland
ceo
The Hyperwords Company
www.hyperwords.net
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