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I must say that idonīt understand this.
He send us a mail with links to sites with program for downloading
free stockquotes. I use MLDownloader which download quotes from Yahoo and
it works fine.
Is it a spam if I send a mail to this group with the webaddres to the
copmany who sell this excellent program?
Lars
At 07:05 2003-07-25 +0000, you wrote:
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equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "equismetastockuser"
<equismetastockuser@xxxx> wrote:
> If you need more, go to the source of spam definition:
>
http://spam.abuse.net/overview/whatisspam.shtml
Here is the site you mention:
"What is spam?
Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message,
in
an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise
choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often
for
dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services.
Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are
paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the
sender.
There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects
on
Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to
20
or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users
have
found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not
relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at
"lurkers",
people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their
address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the
newsgroups
by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other
irrelevant
posts. Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system
administrators and owners to manage the topics they accept on their
systems.
Email spam targets individual users with direct mail messages.
Email
spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing
Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email
spams typically cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many
people
- anyone with measured phone service - read or receive their mail
while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional
money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services
to
transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to
subscribers.
One particularly nasty variant of email spam is sending spam to
mailing lists (public or private email discussion forums.) Because
many mailing lists limit activity to their subscribers, spammers
will
use automated tools to subscribe to as many mailing lists as
possible,
so that they can grab the lists of addresses, or use the mailing
list
as a direct target for their attacks."
So much of the above applies to your spam, that it's clear
that it is indeed spam. One of the users tried your product
and it didn't work.
> As to http://www.msfeed.com/ ,
they offer data downloader that
> delivers FREE quotes, both historical and real time from very
well
> known providers. And the downloader costs $25 one time payment.
Which
> is surprisingly low to pay for this kind of software these
days.
So you admit someone has financial gain from your spam.
That makes it a commercial message sent to multiple groups.
That too is a clear definition of spam.
> Personally, I'm using it to download end of day prices. And yes,
I
> posted this message to multiple newsgroups related to MetaStock
(see
> the word "discriminately" at
www.dictionary.com).
So what, it's still targeted spam. Sending the same message
to
multiple groups or mailing lists, which this is, is spam.
I have already banned you form all the groups I control. I'd
recommend this group do likewise.
Jeff C.
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