Dear Josh,


Let me start by making it very clear that I am less than
thrilled with your recent unsolicited e-mail appended
below.

I was under the deluded impression, on account of your
Directorships of both CAUBE.AU and iCAUSE, that you were
generally opposed to unsolicited bulk mail, that is SPAM. 

Spamhaus defines SPAM as follows:

An electronic message is "spam" IF: (1) the recipient's
personal identity and context are irrelevant because the
message is equally applicable to many other potential
recipients; AND (2) the recipient has not verifiably
granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable
permission for it to be sent; AND (3) the transmission and
reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a
disproportionate benefit to the sender.

Your e-mail is without doubt unsolicited; whether it is
bulk is maybe a moot point ... auDA doesn't have a huge
number of members. Finally there is little doubt that you
the sender are at least attempting to derive
disproportionate benefit. 

In any event your e-mail has annoyed me no end and has
dramatically reduced the chances of you being the
beneficary of my vote. About its only saving grace was that
it didn't come with an offer to pay for my auDA membership.

Finally, I have no interest in photos of equine/homosapien
lovemaking, I am sleeping very well at night (thank you
very much), my member does not need to be any longer
(thanks so much for asking) and my attorney is currently
way too busy to communicate with any business associates of
yours that need to spirit large wads of greenbacks out of
Nigeria

Yours in disgust


  
-DGT



--- Josh Rowe <josh&#167;email.nu <http://us.f116.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=josh&#167;email.nu&YY=38802&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>> wrote:
> Dear David,
> 
> As you are probably aware I am re-standing for the auDA
> board at it's
> AGM in two weeks time
> (http://www.auda.org.au/about/agm2003-notice.html)
> and I would appreciate your vote.
> 
> My candidate statement is below:
> 
> "Josh Rowe has over 10 years experience with the
> Internet. Josh is
> currently a demand class board member and would like to
> be re-elected
> for another term. Josh is a staunch consumer advocate
> within the
> Australian domain name industry especially in regards to
> exposing
> unscrupulous operators. Josh maintains the .au registrar
> price
> comparison web site www.whatsinaname.com.au . Josh is
> also a director of
> Australian, Asia-Pacific and International anti-spam
> lobby groups. More
> information about Josh Rowe is available on his web site:
> www.josh.id.au
> ."
> 
> Please feel free to ask any questions relating to my
> candidacy by return
> email.
> 
> If you cannot attend the meeting but still wish to vote,
> a Proxy Form
> (http://www.auda.org.au/about/agm2003-notice.html) with
> instructions is
> available.  If you wish to nominate me as your proxy, my
> details are as
> follows:
> 
> Joshua Rowe of 17 Phillips St, Coburg VIC 3058
> 
> Proxy forms must be received by 5pm AEDT, Monday 24
> November 2003.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Josh
> --
> http://josh.id.au/