> All advertising email is spam, "solicited" is just a weasel-word to sugar coat...
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Everyone is not entitled to their own facts (in this case, definition).
Even the hyper-vigilant about as far as you can be in that direction SpamHaus, disagrees with you and accepts the common definition that solicited email is, by definition, not spam.
You may consider all advertising email to be spam, just as you may consider all four legged mammals to be dogs. Doesn't make it so.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Everyone is not entitled to their own facts (in this case, definition).
Even the hyper-vigilant about as far as you can be in that direction SpamHaus, disagrees with you and accepts the common definition that solicited email is, by definition, not spam.
You may consider all advertising email to be spam, just as you may consider all four legged mammals to be dogs. Doesn't make it so.