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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2589171" data-attributes="member: 14159">MLM?&nbsp; *shudder*&nbsp; Run away!&nbsp; Run away!&nbsp; But seriously, yeah, if you've told her you don't want to be part of her MLM system, and she keeps trying to bring you in on her pyramid scheme, its spam from that point on.&nbsp; By definition: Unsolicited Commercial E-mail.&nbsp; Personally, I really like the &quot;donate money to a cause that you like but the other person hates in their name&quot; idea, because to be honest there are plenty of major groups in this country of just about every ideology imaginable, and many of them are fairly well-meaning (and could even be called charitable in some cases) even if they have a political agenda that is polarizing.It still doesn't beat the worst and most amateur SPAM I ever saw: Back in '96 when I got my first e-mail account as I came to college, the campus e-mail system was set up so we had to insert a floppy disk to check our e-mail, as it copied the email to our disks.&nbsp; Very early on I was the recipient of some really bad SPAM that didn't use any kind of anonymous remailing technology or the like, somebody actually typed (or cut &amp; pasted) thousands of names into the &quot;To:&quot; field, which was thus sent as part of the message, making the actual spam mail hundreds of thousands of kilobytes.&nbsp; Then it got worse as a few people hit &quot;reply to all&quot; and angrily said to remove them from this list since it was jamming up their mailbox, so each reply took up several hundred K, and very quickly my poor little diskette overloaded and my mail program crashed, then my mailbox filled up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2589171, member: 14159"] MLM? *shudder* Run away! Run away! But seriously, yeah, if you've told her you don't want to be part of her MLM system, and she keeps trying to bring you in on her pyramid scheme, its spam from that point on. By definition: Unsolicited Commercial E-mail. Personally, I really like the "donate money to a cause that you like but the other person hates in their name" idea, because to be honest there are plenty of major groups in this country of just about every ideology imaginable, and many of them are fairly well-meaning (and could even be called charitable in some cases) even if they have a political agenda that is polarizing. It still doesn't beat the worst and most amateur SPAM I ever saw: Back in '96 when I got my first e-mail account as I came to college, the campus e-mail system was set up so we had to insert a floppy disk to check our e-mail, as it copied the email to our disks. Very early on I was the recipient of some really bad SPAM that didn't use any kind of anonymous remailing technology or the like, somebody actually typed (or cut & pasted) thousands of names into the "To:" field, which was thus sent as part of the message, making the actual spam mail hundreds of thousands of kilobytes. Then it got worse as a few people hit "reply to all" and angrily said to remove them from this list since it was jamming up their mailbox, so each reply took up several hundred K, and very quickly my poor little diskette overloaded and my mail program crashed, then my mailbox filled up. [/QUOTE]

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