> Edit: Emergency alerts are solicited by owning a phone in a country that mandates that cell carriers send those messages. That's so pedantic, I'm inclined to

> Edit: Emergency alerts are solicited by owning a phone in a country that mandates that cell carriers send those messages. That's so pedantic, I'm inclined to disagree - if it's even correct. Not everything that's unsolicited is spam. An unsolicited thank you note isn't spam. More components of spam are traditionally a large, indiscriminate number of receivers, and low quality messaging. Irrelevancy does partially capture both of these.