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>It's not spam, as it wasn't actually trying to get you to buy anything.

>There's a lot of argument about what spam is.

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Interesting. 

There may be legal arguments or other kinds of nit-picking, but I doubt
that most of us would disagree with the basic definition that spam is
simply junk electronic mail.

Anyhow, the Australian Oxford Dictionary seems to have it right.

Vlad James