Forums General Discussion Spam

<rant>
ok, so spam is unwanted advertising, right?


what is with people calling everything spam these days

I can see people calling the announced title to music they are playing so their friends who also have the same music can hear it when its played.

flooding is now called spam? what is spam called?

error messages are now spam too?

blinkin everything unwanted is now spam?

I think i will start calling unwanted advertisements "flooding"
that ought to clear things right up
</rant>

spam

I think spam used to refer specifically to unwanted advertisments. However, I think the definition has expanded to describe unwanted messages in general, not just advertising. When I think of spam on IRC, it includes actual advertising (selling a product), and 'advertising' the name of another network or channel with the goal of luring people away from their current network or channel. I wouldn't consider flooding to be spam, otherwise if someone came in and sent a lot of messages advertising their network, it would be called 'spam spam' instead of 'spam flood'. As for displaying the song you are listening to, I don't consider that spam.. I just consider it annoying. In general, no one cares what music anyone else is listening to. It's like showing off pictures of your vacation.. no one really cares. :P

-genius_at_work

That's how most communities see it these days. If I made a topic on here to ask how the weather was most people would consider it spam, because it's mostly unwanted on a mIRC-related forum.

I disagree thats an off topic subject (assuming all topics revolve somwhow around mirc).

If you were to say, Im wrote a script to reply to pm's and here it is for ya. Now thats spam!

S. P. A. M.

Some Plausible Annoying Message