[Spambayes] RE: [SPAM] Another SpamBayes question

[G. Armour Van Horn]

No, there is no delete button on junk mail, but then, you can't recycle spam.

Hormel has never, to the best of my knowledge, sued anyone for use of the term "spam" to refer to junk e-mail. They will sue to stop use of images of the product, they consider SPAM (all caps) to be a trademark, and they have
moved to block a trademark application by SpamArrest. As long as we don't have a reason to register SpamBayes as a trademark, we seem to be in the clear.

The Hormel corporate position on the subject is here:
http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm

Van

"Coe, Bob" wrote:

> Much as we (and our users) dislike spam, it's useful to remember that many things are worse. For example, spam messages could be paper junk mail, which doesn't vanish at the touch of a button.
>
> BTW, didn't one of the purveyors of canned animal scraps threaten to sue anybody who used the word "spam" in a software product name? Is Spambayes immune from that threat? Or had we better not get too attached to the name?
>
> Bob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Beckman [mailto:beckman at purplecow.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 10:52 AM
> > To: Meyer, Tony
> > Cc: David McNab; SpamBayes List
> > Subject: Re: [Spambayes] RE: [SPAM] Another SpamBayes question
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Meyer, Tony wrote:
> >
> > > > What I'd really like is if there was some way of setting up
> > > > my mail system (Exim and procmail), so that when a spam gets
> > > > detected, spambayes causes Exim to hang the SMTP connection
> > > > (or drip-feed a response), and cause the spammer's box on the
> > > > other end to hang for a couple of minutes.
> >
> >  Don't forget that some spammers use legitimate SMTP servers to send spam;
> >  if someone sends spam from a shared server, you could be preventing tens,
> >  hundreds or even thousands of users from sending their legitimate non-spam
> >  email.  More importantly, doing so could make an ISP consider it a DOS
> >  attack, call YOUR ISP, and get YOU kicked off.
> >
> >  It's bad form, in my opinion.  Try something else, like suing them in
> >  court, and not letting it drop until they pay.  That's what I did.
>
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