On 5/28/2019 4:21 PM, Brett Schenker via mailop wrote:
Two real world examples would be elected officials to be contacted and some corporations to be contacted. The former absolutely has reasons to be bulk emailed, the latter possibly too. Both would be "published" email addresses. For your average person, probably not but it's not a hard 100% rule as stated.
This would apply to someone hand-typing an email sent via regular email hosting (not an ESP) to their elected representative, which absolutely wouldn't be spam. However, it would /*still*/ be spam for a sender to subscribe such an email address to mailing list sent via an ESP if there wasn't either COI or some kind of direct and explicit business relationship between that specific email address' past usage - and the sender.
(I worded it this way because - suppose an elected Representative became a member of an organization and started receiving non-spam emails from them - this permission is then still limited to the particular email used for that signup or login (etc) - and therefore some kind of OTHER "role account" email for that Representative's office, that is displayed online, shouldn't also be added to such a distribution list by the sender.)
-- Rob McEwen https://www.invaluement.com
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