Hi,
A lot of what you would define as spam isn't spam at all in legal terms. The company I work for block this spam too (only the spam, not the entire provider), but we would certainly not punish or file a lawsuit.
That is your opinion. And we learned with this group that there is no general consensus about how to define spam or abuse. I think that everything IS spam, what somebody, who receives it, is bothered with, because he did no want it, he feel offended, did not ask for it or whatever personal reason. Compare it to normal adverts in TV or magazine. The person viewing or reading it, still can decide not to consume TV or read magazines, switch the channel or read different ones, where hes interested in the adverts, because it belongs to work or interest and where they dont bother him. With mail you cant do that. You have a mail address and receive stuff you did not ask for, that has nothing to do with business or interest. E.g. I dont want to buy viagra, but still get bothered with it. Im even offened with newsletters, where the sender thinks, that it could have something to do with my work, but actually fails with his estimation. I feel abused of stuff like this. And if I feel abused, I think its spam. Spam cannot be defined in general terms, because its definition depends from the recipients perpective. And thats excatly what is the background idea of a spam report delivery system. Let the recipient decide, what he think hes abuse about. Kind regards, Frank -- PHADE Software - PowerWeb http://www.powerweb.de Inh. Dipl.-Inform. Frank Gadegast mailto:frank@powerweb.de Schinkelstrasse 17 fon: +49 33200 52920 14558 Nuthetal OT Rehbruecke, Germany fax: +49 33200 52921 ====================================================================== Public PGP Key available for frank@powerweb.de