What consitutes a spam?

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> > > 9. Representation and Fees for Spam

> > >

> > > If you send out spam mail via BES, you agree to pay the company a fee

> > > of 2500 SEK for each occurrence. Spam includes all forms of

> > > unsolicited mail, i.e. bogus virus warnings, surveys, chain letters,

> > > unwanted advertisements, pyramid or "get rich quick" schemes, or any

> > > commercially oriented materials not requested by the receivers.

> >

> >Since the UNSOLICTED IRM newsletter .....

>

>

> Well, the letter was definitely unsolicited, but it was sent to a

> conference, *not to individual mailboxes*. Pretty much all

> conference texts are unsolicited, including your response and my

> current text. Does that make us spammers too in your eyes?

 

What I would consider a spamm in a conference (made up of individuals) is

anything that offends the individuals in the conference. It goes without

saying that you and I are not intending to offend or spam anyone.

 

I looked and couldn't find a similar rule that applies to a conference but

it seems logical that if conferences are made up of individuals then the

same rule would apply. If this senario is not covered then perhaps the SysOp

could add a clause as he sees fit for such a predicament.

 

 

> >I would therefore appeal to the BES SysOp, Raktambara Prabhu,.....

>

> Let's not get into a censorship war, dragging our poor sysops into

> the roles of policing conference texts and deciding which ones

> contain lies. I believe that judging the appropriateness of

> conference texts is up to the conference organizers. You can take

> your case up with them and ultimately, if you disagree with their

> decisions, you are welcome to withdraw from the conference.

>

> Ys,

> Madhusudani dasi

 

Perhaps I should reiterate my point: The ritvik newsletter came to several

UNRELATED conferences and it did contain unfair blasphemy of a GBC member,

falsely accusing him of blaspmening Srila Prabhupada, and then they put a

sick twist on a recent statement of the GBC Chairman.

 

Well, if you think it is OK for this stuff to come into conferences and the

majority of the devotees on the conferences don't mind then I'm in no

position to do anything about that except excercise a similar freedom of

speech in countering such ritvik falsities. But I think most devotees have

had enough of the ritviks warping of facts. There are too many other better

devotional things to do and talk about.

 

ys

 

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