On 8/22/19 23:40, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote:
You can't use engagement like that. I consider the weekly/monthly email from a clothes store that gives me a discount for being on their email list to be SPAM.
If you willingly gave then your email address for that purpose, it is by no means spam. Not even close. You subscribed to their list. In consideration for the discount you agreed to receive their advertisements. Classifying this as spam is simply wrong. Spam is *unsolicited* bulk email. You solicited this email for your own financial gain.
(By the way, there's an app for that. Mailinator is your friend. If the sender has caught on and blocked mailinator, a freemail account you never open works just as well for exactly this as well as forced registration sites and the like.)
I consider the annual email from my old school HAM.
Did you sign up for the annual email or provide your address to the school expecting that they would email you? If so, not spam.
It's about consent, not content (or frequency of mailing).
I read this but never reply, and it doesn't have cookies or other phone-home features, so the list maintainers can only process unsubscribe requests and bounces to keep the list clean.
I very rarely open remote images and never pre-fetch DNS so the embedded spyware in much bulk email these days isn't a factor.
There is an email marketeers "rule" about frequent mail shots to keep engagement up. I see this as a good definition of the junk mail sender.
It isn't even a factor. Did you agree to receive mailings of that nature from that sender or not? That's the only real consideration.
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