ahayes wrote:
By your definition telemarketing is spam, yet people still refer to it as telemarketing. One thus must conclude that spam is defined by its medium, and that medium is email. Because advertisments took on a form similar to that found in spam through im's,newsgroups, forums, etc, people bagan calling it spam, but just because people have applied the term incorrectly doesn't mean the meaning of the term has changed.
Hmmm. Interesting point. Telemarketing
is spam, if you talk about spam's commercial application. That was a very good point raised there. But it does not change my definition of BBS spamming.
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