[paulcole]

How can this be true:

> Spam is any communication the recipient doesn't want. The definition is by the recipient, not the initiator.

If this is also true:

> The only requirements are that it be mass (some define that as > 1 target) and unsolicited.

Say I send an unsolicited email by typing it to a businessperson I want to sell my product to. They get my email and didn’t want to receive it. But it wasn’t mass and it was unsolicited.

Was it spam?

[dredmorbius]

I'll trust in your capacity to resolve any concerns with what I wrote.

Your hypo is utterly unrealistic in that it doesn't reflect reality, or what any business operating a marketing campaign would actually do.

But yes, it is spam.

[paulcole]

> I'll trust in your capacity to resolve any concerns with what I wrote.

Yes, that is what I would do as well if I didn't want to answer a clear question.

> But yes, it is spam.

So then you retract this, "The only requirements are that it be mass (some define that as > 1 target) and unsolicited." because the only requirement is that the recipient see it as spam?