In the course of using the services of various businesses, I found it necessary to provide them with my email address. Of course I could give them a fake email address, or maybe a garbage email address, but usually I give one of my real addresses. Many companies have the discipline to have my email address, but somehow resist the temptation to spam me. Other companies cannot resist, and they send spam. I am never surprised to receive spam from pure spammers, but it is worth noting that some companies that do other things than spam, also spam on the side. Maybe they do it when their business is not performing up to expectations and they feel they have to sacrifice a bit of integrity to meet market pressures.

I use the standard definitition of spam: unsolicited bulk email. For example, a company that sends email notices of promotions to all customers, even though they never asked to notified of promotions, is clearly a spammer.

Here is a partial list of companies that have spammed me:

Here is a partial list of companies that could send spam, but refrain from doing so. Thank you.