Tim Kehres Rule has made some statements both publicly and privately about unsolicited bulk mail in general and about the spam sent by ima.com that I think knowingly misrepresent the widely held definitions of spam. This web page exists to preserve those statements and to remind people at Rhyolite Software why ima.com will not soon be removed from the Rhyolite Software list of unwelcome domains. Various objections to that list are answered in the list of objections about the list.
Mr. Kenres may have been unaware of the presence of ima.com in the Rhyolite Software list when he made his statements. Ima.com is present because of this spam. See also these public records of that spam.
Mr. Kenres's statements were also sent to the main mailing list of the IETF and the POISSON mailing list. Because mail from ima.com is not welcome at rhyolite.com, both messages from <kehres@ima.com> to <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> were captured in dccm logdir files. See also the DCC documentation.
In his first message, Mr. Kehres asserted that his spam was "sent from real people on a one on one basis." That statement is obviously false, because essentially identical copies were sent to more than one person, as proven by the independent copies of it.
In his second message, Mr. Kehres made several statements that you should read for yourself. For example, I believe his second message misrepresents current and likely laws against "spam" such as the California and Colorado statutes. It misrepresents the definition of "spam" as requiring forged headers or repeated attacks by a spammer on a single target. It also conflates non-bulk mail between strangers with unsolicited advertising such as his spam.
In this third message (not sent directly to Rhyolite.com), Mr. Kehres again claims that "spam" is commonly defined to as only involving header forgery and similar abuses. I think Mr. Kehres knows that is a false statement.
Contact vjs@rhyolite.com but not this spam trap.
