Re: ActiveAgent
John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.edu)
Mon, 14 Oct 1996 12:23:23 -0400
> The issue of email spam is NOT THORNY - to me it's quite black and
> white. If the email was unsolicited and unwarranted, then it's spam.
> In the case of the email addresses for the web boards, it has been
> made quite clear that the purpose of these email addresses is solely
> for the use of contributing to the board discussions. I would take
> it that ActiveAgent isn't smart enough to figure that out.
but if the ActiveAgent type of software did have ways of differentiating
administrative accounts from others, it wouldn't be the same brand of
spamming.
i'm presently building a wwweb system which would readily make this kind of
narrow-spam possible. i'm thinking over the merits :-) of narrow-spam. it
sounds like despite it's primitive logic, ActiveAgent has met with some
meaningful success.
-john