That was my knee-jerk reaction too, until I actually clicked on the link to Bit of News page. It's very simple and straightforward. It says "Daily 60 sec news s

That was my knee-jerk reaction too, until I actually clicked on the link to Bit of News page. It's very simple and straightforward. It says "Daily 60 sec news summary in your inbox" and asks you to enter your e-mail address to subscribe. I've been in a lot of situations where I gave out my e-mail address to some site because I needed to have them let me know about something specific and then I started receiving unrelated stuff from them. That's what I would call a form of spam. But receiving periodic content you explicitly signed up for? I personally can't find a reason to call that spam. If there's anyone who decides to subscribe to this and then later can't be bothered to unsubscribe, that's really their own problem.