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Greets,

As a follow up, Google gives a few results that might help...

http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/combating-spam-policy-technical-and-industry-...

http://spam.abuse.net/overview/whatisspam.shtml

Neither of those is completely relevant here, but hopefully it provides a better picture. Certainly, we're not the ones who invented the term spam or what constitutes a spam email.

Generally, though, it's any type of bulk and unsolicited email. Group items provide a mail group feature which allows members to "bulk" email -- this is ok because people generally agree to belong to the groups and they can remove themselves from a group that sends too many emails.

Emailing a group of people outside of Writing.Com's group mailing function is just bad because there is no "opt-out" removal option.

One gauge you can use is a pretty simple: "If I send this email, is there a possibility that the recipients will consider it spam and complain to staff?" If there's even a hint of a "yes" in there, then it's likely spam and shouldn't be sent. For sure, many spam senders have good intentions here on WDC -- but good intentions do not always lead to good results.

Still another gauge is "If everyone did what I want to do, would it be ok? Would I be ok receiving dozens of the same type of email I'd like to send? Because if I can do it, so can anyone else..."

Hope this helps a little more,
~~SM

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