Anti Spam

Technical Definition of Spam

An electronic message(email) is "spam" IF:

  1. the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients;
    2. AND
  2. the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent.

THE SPAMHAUS PROJECT
http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html

Spam

We have no lenience towards spam, and your account will be de-activated at once, if you use our services to send spam.

We do not tolerate the issuance of spam via our service. Anyone caught issuing spam will be permanently banned from any further usage of our tools and services.

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. E -mail spam, also known as junk e-mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email.

 

E­mail spam is illegal.You will review and abide by all Can­Spam requirements. 15 U.S.C. 7701, et seq., Public Law No. 108­187

 

You must abide by all elements of the Can-Spam Law, including:

 

Unsubscribe Compliance

A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is present in all emails.

Consumer opt-out requests are honored within 10 days.

Opt-out lists also known as suppression lists are only used for compliance purposes.

 

Content Compliance

Accurate from lines (including "friendly froms")

Relevant subject lines (relative to offer in body content and not deceptive)

A legitimate physical address of the publisher and/or advertiser is present.

A label is present if the content is adult.

 

Sending Behavior Compliance

A message cannot be sent through an open relay

A message cannot be sent to a harvested email address

A message cannot contain a false header

 

Note that falsifying header information is a serious violation of the CAN­SPAM Act and generally is an indicator of criminal or malicious intent which can bring the attention of other law enforcement agencies besides the FTC, including but not limited to the FBI, DOJ and US Postal Inspectors.

 

Our Terms of Service are incorporated within this Spam Policy Document as if fully set forth herein.