Beowulf discussion (fwd)

[Luke Lonergan at work]

> What does IBM have to do with anything?  He was posting from ibm.net,
> the ISP, not ibm.com.  This means he is a customer of IBM's ISP
> service.

Good point. Ouch.

> And a sales pitch sent to one person is not spam.  Spam means it's (a)
> bulk, and (b) unsolicited.

I also might include generically worded sales pitchy stuff like "I read that
you are ... just to share with you..." in the definition of "spammy", a word
that Doug Eadline appears to have invented, although he used one "m" ;-)

Luke