The original argument against spam was that it would
choke off the Internet's bandwidth. The UCE originally
defined spam as 'machine processed'.
Automated emailing could quickly consume internet
bandwidth, while individual entries, of email address,
hand typed could not. If a person searched the
internet for applicable emails, typed them into their
email address bar, one at at time, they could
ultimately enter hundreds in a day, max. At that rate
emails could not choke off the internet. However,
automated processes, that could glean and duplicate
lists of millions of emails, repeatedly sent out for
multiple customers could.
Marketing is the most important aspect of any
company. The highest paid profession is sales, because
it's the hardest job to do and the most important.
You won't have jobs if the goods or services are not
sold.
The internet had the opportunity to streamline the
process. Making marketing more efficient would sell
more products and create more jobs. Instead, the
public, in their panic, started calling all unsolicited
emails 'spam'. Large organizations and companies that
created their own list of blacklisted domain names
started circumventing the UCE's recommendation and
blocked domain names via their own board of decision
makers. You'll often hear the threat of 'SPAM' when an
angry consumer receives one unsolicited email.
How may emails in a spam? Should spam consist of
machine processed, automated emails or can a single
email be a spam?
