Recruiter spam

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Matt Jones wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:55 PM, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> >> I received a spam today from a recruitment consultant in which he said
> >> he'd sourced my details from the london.pm web site. Which is obviously
> >> the people page: http://london.pm.org/who/
> > I wouldn't classify that as spam, as it's not really been sent in bulk
> > without regard for who the recipient is.
> I duuno about that. Unsolicited? Check. Commercial? Check. Email?
> Check. Ergo: spam.

If you say that spam has to be commercial then presumably unsolicited
bulk email hawking a god or a politician or a charity or a fraud or,
indeed, a hopelessly stupid business idea is OK?  Commercial is
irrelevant.  It's being sent in bulk that matters.

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