Please, lets be specific here. Is this an altruistic act: Signing up unwilling participants to a mailing list. Is this ever a mistake? Can you accidentally scr

Please, lets be specific here. Is this an altruistic act: Signing up unwilling participants to a mailing list. Is this ever a mistake? Can you accidentally scrape email addresses off of a website and accidentally create a mailing list to spam them? Everything points to this being a malicious action. We don't need to give a spammer the benefit of the doubt.