RE: [cobalt-users] Spam From Cobalt

["Dom Latter" <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

> This is not SPAM by definition.. I do not see where any headers were 
> forged, or any unauthorized servers were used to relay this message.. 
> there is nothing in the headers to indicate this as SPAM.

What, like "X-Is-This-Spam: Yes"?

Anyway, if you want to talk definitions, Spam originally referred to 
multiply-posted Usenet messages, Velveeta was cross-posted Usenet
messages, and to ensure that cancellations could not be construed
as content-based (a big Net no no) the Breidbart Index gives a 
measure of cross-postedness and multiply-postedness that many people
take as the definitive metric of the pinkness and porkyness of a 
post.

And nobody had heard of UCE / UBE, which is what Spam generally
refers to these days, as 95% of Internet users have never even 
heard of Usenet.

And whether or not it is UCE / UBE is entirely to do with it being
**U**nsolicited and **C**ommercial or **B**ulk.