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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
We will simply have to agree to disagree, meera, about our definition of spam and what constitutes a spammer.
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You said "Unsolicited, specific email to someone is spam". As I said, I made an enquiry to a company, as a potential customer - how is that spam? It's not. A reasonable, _personalised_ enquiry to a bookblogger at their bookblog contact address, which is what we are talking about here, is also not spam. Sending out ten thousand identical emails to a list of bookblogger contacts you got on the internet is spam. Sending out twenty personalised, appropriate contacts to bookbloggers, having read their pages on how and when to contact them to offer review copies, is also not spam.
I run a blog. We get spam. A lot of it. We also get personalised, appropriate contacts from people we've not had contact with before. Those are not spam. On account of how they're not unsolicited bulk marketing email.
None of these relate in any way to Mobileread PMs, which aren't email, and are obviously subject to whatever policies this site puts in place.