Definition of SPAMMING!

[programmer2k]

Ok
I don't really understand
because I always thought that spamming was advertising your site in one place like 100 times

but I don't consider advertising your site 1 to 5 times spamming

[Rodie]

Well technically spamming is really any kind of unsolicited and unwanted advertisement that gets sent out. The number of times it gets sent out is irrelevant most of the time.

[Canuckkev]

Yeah, any unsolicited ad is spam. It's still spam if I'm the only one in the world who gets emails advertising "Herbal ------", and "<inset body part here> Lenghthener". How would I know I'm the only one? I don't, so I would call it spam.

[polygon]

And there's the now common disclaimer that, because it supposedly follows the guidelines listed in some bill in Congress, "This message cannot be considered spam." Oh, yes it can.

For some years now, I complain to ISPs (and uce@ftc.gov) about spam only if it has one of these:

(1) Illegal pyramid scheme. You know the one, "as seen on national TV", order five reports for $5. The whole thing is full of disgusting lies about how legal it is.

(2) Threats. Like, "if you complain to our ISP, we will unleash hackers to destroy your computer." For a contrary sort of guy like me, that kind of challenge is tremendously motivating to write complaints to every domain in the headers. I'm happy to say that threatening spam is much less common than it used to be.

Of course, if the spam originates in China (increasingly the spammers' domain of convenience) there's no point wasting time complaining to ISPs.

[Epgs]

yeah, anything unwanted can be considered spam

[programmer2k]

cool
didn't know that before