Steve Wertz wrote in
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On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:47:19 -0500, Michel Boucher wrote:

Dave Smith wrote in
news:44D92637.BD21B9B3 @sympatico.ca:

It doesn't have to be commercial to be spam.

Oh yes it does.

Anybody who posts the same message to 100's of Usenet groups is a
spammer - commercial or not. This one's just an insane spammer.

All righty, let's look at this then. Spam is defined as unsollicited
bulk email (or message to newsgroup) most often of a commercial nature.
Other than chain letters, I think every e-mail spam I have received has
been trying to sell me something or was phishing (which is still about
money). Even taking out the commercial aspect, it has to be a bulk e-
mail or message for it to qualify as spam. As to unsollicited, this is
an unmoderated newsgroup and consequently, OT or unsollicited messages
are not only common but par for the course. Some are generated by
people within the group and some are not. Unmoderated means that no
one checks on it and you know it's quite likely to happen. Complaining
about it does no good.

So, as it turns out, this message (in particular) was posted only on
rec.food.cooking. It wasn't crossposted, ergo it does not qualify as
spam even in the primary definition, i.e. "unsollicited" and "bulk".

You may refer to it privately (in your head) as spam, but it ain't
spam. It's annoying, but it ain't spam.

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