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How can this be true:

> Spam is any communication the recipient doesn't want. The definition is by the recipient, not the initiator.

If this is also true:

> The only requirements are that it be mass (some define that as > 1 target) and unsolicited.

Say I send an unsolicited email by typing it to a businessperson I want to sell my product to. They get my email and didn’t want to receive it. But it wasn’t mass and it was unsolicited.

Was it spam?



I'll trust in your capacity to resolve any concerns with what I wrote.

Your hypo is utterly unrealistic in that it doesn't reflect reality, or what any business operating a marketing campaign would actually do.

But yes, it is spam.


> I'll trust in your capacity to resolve any concerns with what I wrote.

Yes, that is what I would do as well if I didn't want to answer a clear question.

> But yes, it is spam.

So then you retract this, "The only requirements are that it be mass (some define that as > 1 target) and unsolicited." because the only requirement is that the recipient see it as spam?




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