[IP] more on anti-Goodmail coalition resorts to misquotes

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Frode Hegland <frode@hegland.com>
Date: March 22, 2006 4:56:21 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
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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