] "Spam is essentially email that misrepresents an offer or
] misrepresents the originator, or in some way attempts to
] confuse or defraud people... The reality is that, in
] spite of all the trouble that email is causing, Americans
] and people all over the world in fact a lot of people do
] respond to email offers, and they often respond to offers
] for things they didn't even know existed, from people
] they didn't know existed."

Welcome to the Spam topic. Yet another extremely overdue task on my todo list.

Politech: Direct Marketing Association's very narrow view of what spam is