Cosmin Nicolaescu on 25 Feb 2006 16:12:38 -0000 |
On Sat, February 25, 2006 10:35 am, Alexander Birch wrote: > On 2/25/06, Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com> wrote: > <snip> >> >> >> And collecting more than 1 mil addresses in 7 days (and then perhaps >> more?) certanly doesn't seem to have any other use than .. spam. > > > It doesn't seem to be email harvesting. > > In the olden days, when people sent you unwanted mail to your house, it > was > called junk mail. > That's true, but in an online context junkmail == spam. The fact that I used "spam" does not mean that it's illegal. There is legal spam (mostly when the user actually has a possiblity to unsubscribe). But I might be wrong on this, it would be nice if we get some more info on what the use would be. -Cos -- GPG key fingerprint = DE9F 4664 E666 2BD1 903E 4F4D EA31 5FB1 C7F9 08C1 ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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