Question

What criteria determine if an email is considered spam?

Answer 1

when there is an abuse of any electronic communications medium to send unsolicited messages to someone in bulk. In the popular eye, the most common form of spam is that delivered in e-mail as a form of commercial advertising

Answer 2

it is spam if the e-mail address is not linked to an actual person, also if it does not have a pure subject. for instance a subject with lots of !!@@#!@3!#!@$#! or one that has all caps is generally considered spam. However, based on the Can Spam Act it is illegal for people to send spam. . however, since the addresses are not linked to a personal e-mail account noone can ever catch them. You can opt out of spam, but if you do you are likely to get more because they relaize that your address is active and will continue to send / try to sell / scandalize you.

Answer 3

because people want to annoy u, so therefore it must be a spam.

Answer 4

It's an advertisement/trick e-mail sent to many e-mail addresses at once.

Answer 5

Any unsolicited e-mail. However, If a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.