From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Freebies List Spammed
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:54:06 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "dicconf" <dicconf at radix.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:40 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Freebies List Spammed

>
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Ted White wrote:
>
> > From: <ronkean at juno.com>
> >
> > [...]
> >>
> >> wildly off-topic.  So if a political message from a new member seems
to
> >> be on topic, I will let the message go through, even though the
message
> >> may in fact be hit and run spam.
> >
> > Referring to your last sentence:  Aren't we broadening the definition
of
> > "spam" a bit far to include any kind of political rant not sent out by
the
> > thousands/millions?
>
> But a lot of us would consider as spam political rants that _are_ sent
out
> by the thousands/millions.  Stuff from the Democratic/Republican national
> committees, MoveOn.org, NOW, NARAL...  Of course, NARAL material isn't
> spam, because I approve of them.

Interestingly, I've never gotten an email from any of those organizations.
I think you need to put your name on their mailing lists -- which makes
their mailings non-spam.

--Ted White