"Paul Cupis" <paul@cupis.co.uk> wrote in message
news:f356ob$1v84$3@energise.enta.net[color=blue]
> Ivor Jones wrote:[color=green]
> > "Infant Newbie" <infant@newbie.new> wrote in message
> > news:f32j6p$a5h$1@news.freedom2surf.net[color=darkred]
> > > "Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
> > > news:5bjb8hF2srgukU1@mid.individual.net...
> > > > "Infant Newbie" <infant@newbie.new> wrote in message
> > > > news:f305k2$fij$1@news.freedom2surf.net
> > > > > We will launch a new VOIP service soon. We are
> > > > > sounding out u guys n gals in this newsgroup!
> > > > > Tell me what you would like from our service
> > > > No spam.
> > > >
> > > What makes this spam?[/color]
> >
> > It's unsolicited. That's the definition of spam.[/color]
>
> No it's not.[/color]

Unsolicited Commercial Email. It was certainly unsolicited. It may not
have been commercial, but it looked like it to me. Email, well a newsgroup
posting may not be email, but it's close enough.
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> The OP was not spam.[/color]

Yes it was.
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> On the other hand, if your reply was an answer to the
> question suggesting that "no spam" was something you
> would like to see from the OPs service, then good - I
> second the suggestion.[/color]

It was that too.

Ivor