[anti-abuse-wg] Hold time for abused address space - DNSChanger IP's reallocated

On Thursday 16 August 2012 22.07, lists at help.org wrote:
>  >Email spam is universally defined as unsolicited bulk email.
> 
> You need a definition that can withstand a court challenge. Grouping 
> vague, undefined terms does not do the trick.   If I post my e-mail 
> address in a whois database or post it on a web site am I soliciting 
> e-mail?  How many is "bulk"?   So if I send you, and only you, an ad 
> after I collect your address from this list it is not "spam" because I 
> did not send it in bulk?  When you get a single message, using your 
> definition, you can't tell if it is spam because you don't know if it 
> was sent in "bulk" (whatever that means).  Even if you see similar 
> reports from many different sources if they came from different IP's you 
> still can't tell if it was spam because if different people sent the 
> messages it may not qualify as "bulk."  I don't know anyone that 
> actually uses such a standard, in practice, to define "spam."
> 

One advetsiment sent without my explicit demand is by definition spam.
There is no greyzone! 
> 
> 

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        Peter Håkanson   

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        again ... and again ... and again ... and again.
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