Can I send emails to anyone to promote my web site?

The answer is very simple:NO! Sending out unsolicited emails is absolutely prohibited. An unsolicited email, also known as "spam" is any email sent to an unknown third party who has not requested such information. Please familiarize yourself with our Email Acceptable Usage Policies.

Spamming has become a rampant problem on the Internet. At first glance, it appears no different than the junk mail that annoyingly fills our physical mailboxes. But there are some distinct differences. Unlike with junk mail, where the sender has to pay the cost of the mailing (by paying postage), the cost of spam is paid by the user, the network providers, ISPs. Some of these costs are the extra routers, network capacity and disk storage space needed by internet services to transmit, receive and store these messages. In fact, large providers such as AOL spend millions of dollars in extra disk storage to hold all the extra junk email messages. AOL and all other Internet service providers are passing on these costs to the end user by increasing fees or reducing "free" options and converting them to fee based services.

Each spam message also adds to the traffic on the Internet, or in more technical terms, takes up bandwidth. Because there is so much spam being sent, it fills up and chokes up the internet communication channels. Spam is one of the main causes of Internet delays