Spamming... Not OK on the Net... But OK on the phone?

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I have thought of this for many years... and still don't understand it. Almost as soon as people went on the Internet back in the 90's... the word "spamming" was invented to describe "sending unsolicited emails". But since then... the business of making unsolicited telephone calls to sell something and anything has flourished. No one has made it illegal and no-one did bother to invent a name for it. Why? I am raising this question... because our very own Australian Prime Minister... who has put all sort of laws in place against spamming... is resorting to calling people through an automatic internet exchange in order to convince people to vote for him next Saturday. ________________________________________________ The Government is also hitting the phones. Short recorded messages from the Prime Minister, Treasurer, ministers, and retiring MPs, are being sent by computer to the home phones of voters in more than 20 marginal seats across the country. The Liberal Party says they won't go to mobile phones or people on the Do Not Call list. The blitz started yesterday afternoon. "We've found that they're a welcome and effective form of communication," he said. "It's not invasive. They're quite short. They are positive, they're about our plans for growth and low inflation and jobs, and people want to know about that. And in our view, it works very effectively." __________________________ What do you think? Should we call this practice "Spamming"?