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spam is bad but still businesses send it.
spam has been defined three ways that I know of.
That which is not wanted
Unsolicited Commercial Email
Unsolicted Bulk Email
That which is not wanted
Does not really work and does not scale. What if you sign up for a list and then decide you don't want it. The list owner is not physic and so should not be made to read your mind as to what you want or do not want.
Unsolicited Commercial Email
This is a good start but spammers tend to attempt to muddy the waters attempting to mislead the recipient as to what is or is not commercial and then the politician will want their frea speach at your expense and we can't forget the charitable solicitation, surely that can't be commercial. This leaves to much to chance.
Unsolicited Bulk Email
This definition is favored by the Internet Service Industry because it offers them protects but almost all members of the Internet Service Industry fail to understand it leaves the individual no protections. You can't really blame them wanting all that protection while offering the user nothing.
These definitions have failed to stop or even impede spam and any intelligent individual knows that to stop anything you must first identify it and spam is no different. In this case these definitions are insufficient and so I would offer another.
Unsolicited Email Solicitations
This covers everything while offering protections for the sender if the email is solicited. Ye ole politician and the charities will have to find another way to express their frea speach. While this is not a solution this defines the problem and the solution can then be found.
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