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Robert Wientzen, president of the Direct Marketing Association, was interviewed on CBS News Sunday Morning for a segment on spam. The CBS News correspondent doing the interview said that one view of spam is that it is "anything in your inbox that you didn't ask for." Wientzen disagreed. He said (this is an exact quote from a video recording): "Spam is essentially email that misrepresents an offer or misrepresents the originator, or in some way attempts to confuse or defraud people... The reality is that, in spite of all the trouble that email is causing, Americans and people all over the world in fact a lot of people do respond to email offers, and they often respond to offers for things they didn't even know existed, from people they didn't know existed." So spam is just fraudulent email, not unsolicited bulk email? News to me. -Declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------