Re: Am I a spammer?

["Ed Wurster" <eawurster -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Bonnie Granat wrote:
> I send e-mail to 100 companies asking if they need copyediting
> services, am I a spammer? A friend tells me I am, but I have never
> heard that doing what I did is considered spam.
>
> He said sending unsolicited, commercial e-mail the way I did was
> really spam.
>
> I'm amazed. Is this true?

If you send unsolicited email, you are one step closer to being labelled a
spammer. Once that happens, your sending domain will be blacklisted.

ISP's limit how many addresses you can cram into the various send fields.
For instance, my ISP will not copy mail to more than fifteen or so. Of
course there are ways around this.

The definition of spam is a moving target. If you are sending from somewhere
in the U.S., for instance, make sure your email is in accordance with U.S.
law.


Ed Wurster
http://www.ewurster.com/blog/

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