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A service emailing me anything I did not explicitly ask it to is sending me spam - unsolicited commercial email - by your own definition. Just because you find
by gergles 12y ago
A service emailing me anything I did not explicitly ask it to is sending me spam - unsolicited commercial email - by your own definition. Just because you find the spam useful doesn't mean it isn't spam.
- Karunamon 12y agoBy that definition, Stack Overflow's weekly email is "spam". You signed up for it the same way you signed up for Quora.
- colordrops 12y agoYes. Most mail from corporations at this point is spam. That is completely true.
- Karunamon 12y agoYour definition is so broad as to be utterly meaningless.
- Shog9 12y agoThe key difference is that on SO we don't make you give us your email address to read an answer. So when you "sign up" for the newsletter, you're explicitly signing up for email (in fact, you can do so without even bothering to create an account). Not saying SO doesn't send too many emails to registered users in other scenarios (it's something we argue about internally fairly often). And to be fair, both sites put "unsubscribe" links in the footer of every email, so it really shouldn't be that much of a burden.