Re: flirting...

in message <Xns9753C04A29DA1spamtraplexregiacom@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Stuart A.
Bronstein ('spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx') wrote:

> "Edward" <like2getfunked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> who ru flirting with? CLICK http://www.2persons.com
>
> This is the same idiot who was told his adverts aren't welcome here.
> And now he's back.
>
> Does gmail pull accounts for stuff like this?

Surprisingly (and depressingly) it appears not (at least not explicitly):

<URL:http://www.google.com/mail/help/program_policies.html>

<quote>
Prohibited Actions

In addition to (and/or as some examples of) the violations described in
Section 3 of the Terms of Use, users may not:

* Generate or facilitate unsolicited commercial email ("spam"). Such
activity includes, but is not limited to

+ sending email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act or any other applicable
anti-spam law
+ imitating or impersonating another person or his, her or its email
address, or creating false accounts for the purpose of sending spam
+ data mining any web property (including Google) to find email addresses
+ sending unauthorized mail via open, third-party servers
+ sending emails to users who have requested to be removed from a mailing
list
+ selling, exchanging or distributing to a third party the email
addresses of any person without such person's knowing and continued
consent to such disclosure
+ sending unsolicited emails to significant numbers of email addresses
belonging to individuals and/or entities with whom you have no
preexisting relationship

* Send, upload, distribute or disseminate or offer to do the same with
respect to any unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent,
infringing, obscene, or otherwise objectionable content

* Intentionally distribute viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses,
corrupted files, hoaxes, or any other items of a destructive or
deceptive nature

* Conduct or forward pyramid schemes and the like

* Transmit content that may be harmful to minors

* Impersonate another person (via the use of an email address or
otherwise) or otherwise misrepresent yourself or the source of any email

* Illegally transmit another's intellectual property or other proprietary
information without such owner's or licensor's permission

* Use Gmail to violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and
publicity) of others

* Promote or encourage illegal activity

* Interfere with other Gmail users' enjoyment of the Service

* Create multiple user accounts in connection with any violation of the
Agreement or create user accounts by automated means or under false or
fraudulent pretenses

* Sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit for any unauthorized
commercial purpose or transfer any Gmail account

* Modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the Gmail
Service

* Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices
contained in or on the Gmail Service

* Reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the
Gmail Service

* Use the Gmail Service in connection with illegal peer-to-peer file
sharing
</quote>

Areas of quibble-room are that the things listed under the spam clause
are '... not limited to...' and his message might be deemed harmful to
minors. However, we have no evidence that he even has a gmail account.

--
simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; I'll have a proper rant later, when I get the time.
.

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