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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve been thinking about beginning to more aggressively email people and organizations that I find on the web who I think might be interested in &lt;a title=&quot;my podcast&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.501c3cast.com&quot;&gt;my podcast.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; The conceived email would just include a short introduction and invitation to check out the show.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; I&#039;m sensitive about the unsolicited emails that I receive and this has me thinking, what is spam?&amp;nbsp; If I take the time to find people that I think might be interested in something that I am doing, and send an email to the person, should that exclude me from junk mail category?&amp;nbsp; What if I personalize each email?&amp;nbsp; What if I don&#039;t and just bcc every address?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If&amp;nbsp; the email is readily available on the web, does that mean that the person is open to receive&amp;nbsp; solicitations?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netsquared.org/blog/coreyp/spam-vs-email-introductions&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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