In article ,
Dave Hinz wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:04:52 -0500, B.B.
. ru wrote:

Technically, you didn't SPAM. Spamming is posting an ad many times
or to many places.

Well, that's one definition. And he did hit at least here and the
wooddorking group. google would, of course, give the whole list.

The standard I saw a long time ago was square root of number of
groups cross-posted to plus the square root of the number of duplicate
posts = 20. So it worked out to needing 400 cross-posted groups, or
400 duplicate posts, or some combination in-between. Real spammers hit
that mark easily. Guys like Len don't come even close.
Of course, that isn't carved in stone or anything, so what is or
isn't SPAM can vary from place to place or person to person. I just
stick with that standard because it's pretty much the threshold used by
the auto-cancelers and most ISPs. That way by the time I'm bitching
about someone spamming it's to the level that they have an excuse for
(or even interest in) dealing with the offender.

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