Hello,

If i have a company and i send some emails to webmasters of sites i know saying that we have that special or that offer.. that considered as Spam?

I am not talking about have a script or something and send 100.000 mails to every mail that script finds with some way..

Thanks

Used to be you could send a once off to a business regarding something like this and it wasn't taken badly. These days, most recipients of one of these will either "tear you a new one" via email, or simply report you to your upstream.

I'd find another way, if it were me. The return just isn't worth the trouble.

Hello,

If i have a company and i send some emails to webmasters of sites i know saying that we have that special or that offer.. that considered as Spam?

I am not talking about have a script or something and send 100.000 mails to every mail that script finds with some way..

Thanks

There are 100s of 1000s, if not MILLIONS, of small website business owners that might send me email - thinking I would be interested in their services. Would it be any less annoying, knowing that they only sent the email to a handful of people besides me?

--Tina

Well it depends. I would say it's fine if you know them personally or you've had contact before. I consider something spam if someone I don't know and have never made contact with emails me with their special offer.

As mentioned above, the return isn't really worry the hassle or risk.

Here in Australia we have a strict Anti-spam act that prevents any commercial email that is not solicited.. ie you must have a prior relationship with the other person or business before you can send them an email...

There are 100s of 1000s, if not MILLIONS, of small website business owners that might send me email - thinking I would be interested in their services. Would it be any less annoying, knowing that they only sent the email to a handful of people besides me?

--Tina

I hate spam.

sendmail turned on for us 10 years ago.


I remember my very first spam that ticked me off. The very first. I probably have it printed out in a file somewhere.

Someone actually sent an email to about 80 or so people 3 or 4 times in a row. The phone started to ring because clients wanted to know if something was wrong. They received a repeat of the same email 4 times. They didn't even know who it was from.

It all came from the same email address and I said screw this and just blocked it by domain name in some sendmail config file.

A day later he called. Someone actually called and asked me why he couldn't send email to our domain. I assumed it was a legit client with something mis configured.

It wasn't... it was some guy that couldn't run his "dictionary name" emailing program.

I said your annoying people and they call to complain. He didn't care. We were blocking his clients.








He could not reach his clients because I was blocking his domain name. He was rather serious about it too.

I too would define this as spam. What you define as legitimate someone else may describe as unsolicited commercial email, even if you've had contact with them before.

I would consider this spam. I don't know how it would be defined legally, but sending out a number of email no matter what size offering services to companies is something I would try to avoid. You might look for a better means of contacting these people other than a large or mass email to them.

John

It is illegal in US from 2004.

The way to get around "spam" is to "de-spam" it.

Make the emails personal. You say you know the webmasters, so hand write each email and make it sound 100% directed to them.

Theoretically this is still spam, but if you can put a personable twist to it, the person will think "Oh, well I'm not interested but thanks." as opposed to "This prick and his pre-canned email spam."

Worst spam
shows everybodies e-mail because cc is used
giving my e-mail away to others on the list, that realy goats me.

Personaly, my own rule is:
"IF I question what I'm about to send out, I Should Not send it"
this works for spam, rudeness etc.

However I kinda like 'Spamalot' !

Any unsolicited e-mail is basically spam. They didn't ask to hear from you --> they don't want to hear from you. In this day and age, if somebody is interested in something, he/she hits up a search engine or online directory and finds it.