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Any unsolicited email is automatically spam, even if the end recipient found value in it and did end up buying the product?
by aantix 8y ago
Any unsolicited email is automatically spam, even if the end recipient found value in it and did end up buying the product?
- acheron 8y ago"Well, there's spam-egg-sausage-and-spam, that's not got much spam in it."
- tomnipotent 8y agoIt is when most of these businesses are just buying lists and sending blasts through automated programs with minimal human investment in qualifying leads. If I did not give you my email address and a human is not sending the email directly, it's spam.
- stonogo 8y agoYes. Unsolicited bulk email is the actual definition of spam. This whole story is about sending unsolicited bulk email. Generally some end recipient will engage with the spam; that's why spam gets sent.
- lostmsu 8y agoYes, why not?
- birken 8y agoI'm sure one person out of a billion has bought viagra from a spam email, it doesn't mean all of those were fine. There is no cut and dry rule, but here is a simple heuristic that will apply to most emails you write and receive: If it takes longer to write it than it does to read it, it isn't spam. This metric also generally applies to cold emails as well. However, once you start automating emails then it is a slippery slope and you'll very quickly end up in the spam range.
- DanBC 8y agoThe rule is "is it bulk? is it unsolicited?" this is long established.