Controlling Spam - Definition

[taguebw at wfu.edu]

In article <33C2260F.3391 at sprynet.com>, sheldonht2ht at sprynet.com wrote:

> I am curious as to how one defines "Spam." 

[Big Snip]

Spam has nothing to do with content per se. Spam is a message posted to
many newsgroups at once, rather than being posted to the
content-appropriate newsgroup. Search "spam" with your browser and I'm
sure you'll find lots of sites devoted to stricter definitions of spam...

Not that there aren't content-specific complaints about what gets posted
to some newsgroups... 


> I'm tired of the blanket classification of Doctors/Hospitals as being
> legitimate and all Network Marketers as being liars...

[Another Big Snip]

You haven't been reading bionet.general then -- MDs have been getting
slammed the past few weeks -- and have been slamming back...


My 2 electrons,

Brian