Not only is it illegal, but it is also *not* a sustainable business. IMO you'll need to cheat anti-spam systems which are now pretty good detecting spams. I was wondering why somebody goes a long to lease bullet-proof servers, research for the anti-spam loopholes and much more? Why wouldn't they just use their resources to make money creating websites? It is very easy to make money off website business.
Sorry, but yes, it's probably illegal. 8 million emails? I seriously doubt you (or anyone for that matter) gathered those by themselves. If you run a blog or website and have readers, it's fine to mass email them of course. But mass emailing and spamming 8 million people that didn't opt-in for these messages and that you didn't know collect naturally... it's illegal and also very annoying. Spam = hate.
Yes. Worked for a credit card company once and when a customer refuses once, you can't send the product offer again.
I seem to recall a news story about a Russian spammer being beaten to death http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39150764,00.htm There ya go, even if it might be legal, lol is it really worth it?
Thats Justice! Brilliant! Any reports on malicious hackers or script kiddies being beaten to death? That would just make my day.
And if you send them from your own server/pc you're gonna get caught - and I suspect that you wont even be able to send to that many because your ISP will have filters for that kind of thing.... Check out this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7140449.stm Good luck - be careful...
I would say YES as well.. It is SPAM and your IP can be banned or your hosting provider may drop you.
Very illegal. Unless when users sign up for a service they select something like "receive a monthly newsletter" or something similar. then that allows you to mass email your database...
illegal it's not ur own DB ppl are justifing this issue with newsletter & dating website with friend inviter
What would even be the point of sending "email" (I call it spam...) to these people? Do you think something good is gonna come out of it? I mean, I delete my spams and don't ever read it. And if someone I "know" (a website I subscribed, a blog I read etc.) start sending mass email for stupid reason ("oh look, our website is blue now!"/ "oh, you should read that!") I just: 1) Warn them I don't like spam 2) Block them 3) Never come back again Spam doesn't get you anywhere...
there is a law in place to stop this stuff, the canspam is a international law that people can and have been prosecuted under.
I would recommend joining a mass emailing website that has a guaranteed "no spam" program. That way they will handle all claims of spam. These are very cheap. Also called safelists.