Seriously, it amazes me that in 2014 people like you are still trying to justify spam. A follow-up contact and putting someone's email address into an automate

Seriously, it amazes me that in 2014 people like you are still trying to justify spam. A follow-up contact and putting someone's email address into an automated system that spits out boilerplate junk are two very different things. Any company that relies on the latter clearly doesn't give a flying fuck about their reputation.