At 13:07 10/26/2000 Thursday, Lenny Huntley wrote:
 >A merge-mailing was sent out by a new employee here, and the person had
 >changed the FROM address from a valid internal email address to a phrase.
 >What are the implications of this action?  Does this constitute spamming?
 >and will we be marked as such? we sent approx. 6000 emails in one sending
 >this way.

<humble opinon alert>

It constitutes a lack of judgment by the organization that would allow a
new employee to email 6k customers w/o a thorough check.

The rest is consequential.

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