Well, I suppose that's one way of looking at things. I've never considered
spam as 'crosses this many newsgroups' - I still have held that for me,
spam is information inappropriately appearing in a newsgroup. The number
of the groups is inconsequential.
Unfortunately, some folk have had a field day classifing all sorts of things
'spam' which under that definition don't qualify.
This brings to mind several similar cases in the past 15 years - the letters
"PC" , the phrase "windows", the term "hacker", etc.
All of these had legitimate meanings, but the meaning was perverted into
something (obscene, some would say) by the 'popular press'.
Frankly, if I were Hormel, I would begin prosecution left and right...
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