RE: FN-FORUM A Ridiculous Reaction.....

date posted 27th January 2001 11:03

On Darren's recent episode....

www.whatis.com defines spam as the following....

"Spam is unsolicited e-mail on the Internet. From the sender's
point-of-view, it's a form of bulk mail, often to a list culled from
subscribers to a Usenet discussion group or obtained by companies that
specialize in creating e-mail distribution lists. To the receiver, it
usually seems like junk e-mail. In general, it's not considered good
netiquette to send spam. It's generally equivalent to unsolicited phone
marketing calls except that the user pays for part of the message since
everyone shares the cost of maintaining the Internet.

Some apparently unsolicited e-mail is, in fact, e-mail people agreed to
receive when they registered with a site and checked a box agreeing to
receive postings about particular products or interests. This is known as
both opt-in e-mail and permission-based e-mail.

A first-hand report indicates that the term is derived from a famous Monty
Python sketch ("Well, we have Spam, tomato & Spam, egg & Spam, Egg, bacon &
Spam...") that was current when spam first began arriving on the Internet.
Spam is a trademarked Hormel meat product that was well-known in the U.S.
Armed Forces during World War II."

End of lesson,

Rich

P.S: Darren, I don't want to add to your miserable week, but I have just had
a peek at your Arkad homepage and noticed that your 'Web Clients' page
points to a site recently re-designed by us - www.pullans.com. Any chance of
deleting the link? Cheers.


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