Comment Re:Great offer but the wrong approach... (Score 3) 299
If I decided to email you about some investment opportunity, would you consider that spam too?
Content does not define what's spam.
According to you. Spam is unsolicited *advertising*, by my definition.
Where do you draw the line?
If it was sent to a list of people who did not solicit the mail, it is spam. No exceptions.
Geez, that's pretty tough. I just sent a mail to 10 people I know at university, and I didn't ask them first. And earlier today I sent a mail to a list (of 2) Slashdot posters, and I sure as hell didn't ask them first.
If I were to suck a list of Linux kernel developers and mail them all saying `here, have a free Quad PII Xeon box, to help with your development work', would that be spam? If I were to mail a list of MPs in the UK telling them that key escrow was stupid and shouldn't go ahead (perhaps put slightly more rationally, and with arguments), would that be spam? You really have to clean up your definition a little. IMVVHO.
People abuse the word spam.
They do indeed.
And they misdefine it, too.
Content does not define what's spam.
According to you. Spam is unsolicited *advertising*, by my definition.
Where do you draw the line?
If it was sent to a list of people who did not solicit the mail, it is spam. No exceptions.
Geez, that's pretty tough. I just sent a mail to 10 people I know at university, and I didn't ask them first. And earlier today I sent a mail to a list (of 2) Slashdot posters, and I sure as hell didn't ask them first.
If I were to suck a list of Linux kernel developers and mail them all saying `here, have a free Quad PII Xeon box, to help with your development work', would that be spam? If I were to mail a list of MPs in the UK telling them that key escrow was stupid and shouldn't go ahead (perhaps put slightly more rationally, and with arguments), would that be spam? You really have to clean up your definition a little. IMVVHO.
People abuse the word spam.
They do indeed.
And they misdefine it, too.
