Hi all,To some extent spam is in the eye of the beholder. If I were toreceive an email saying that a new book on terraforming was nowbeing published - it would not be spam to me, but I am sure thatmost of you would think it spam.Matt felt that Jay's incomprehensible ramblings (and various snarkycomments on them) were a waste of his time and so quit the list.As for can spam be art... I think not. The essence of art iscommunicating something to the audience. When I was writing thedesign for the Computer Game, "Total Annihilation", I decided that Iwanted to communicate, in a simple form, the essence of combinedarms and military tactics. I feel that the game succeeded becausethat aspect of the communication came thru the design & development.An artist who's art moves no one; who says nothing other than to irritateothers is not an artist but a vandal. (Especially if he is paintingproperty not his own.)Jay's verbal diarrhoea falls in the spam category to me. It is notworth the time to figure out and it offends me. It is hard work towrite clearly & concisely, and someone who does not bother to try,is simply wasting everyone's time.I delete Jay's emails unread. I should figure out how to get myspam filter to zap his emails, but not the TFT list in general.Jay would do better to either stop posting at all, or make an effortto say something in a format which is worth people's time to read.As it is, he is just teaching people to ignore him and driving peopleoff the list.Warm regards, Rick.On 2016-10-12, at 4:18 PM, David Bofinger wrote:The categories aren't mutually exclusive. A lot of street art - tagging, for instance - is basically spam.--DavidOn 13 October 2016 at 10:07, Geof Gibson <geofgibson@mac.com> wrote:One might also consider Jay’s incoherent ramblings a form of art.On Oct 12, 2016, at 12:15 PM, Jeffrey Vandine <jlv61560@yahoo.com> wrote:This basically amounts to spam...