{"id":1841,"date":"2009-08-14T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/helpcentre\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2022-11-10T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T09:50:08","slug":"what-is-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/email\/what-is-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Spam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Spam <\/b>is a generic term that refers to the act of indiscriminately sending unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant or inappropriate messages via email.<\/p>\n<p>These are usually promotions or advertisements sent in \u2018bulk\u2019 to the email addresses of people who have not requested this information.<\/p>\n<p>We have a strict <a title=\"AUP\" href=\"\/legal\/acceptable-use-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acceptable Use Policy<\/a> that does not tolerate spam. For a mailing list to be considered legitimate and not spam the following criteria need to be met:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Administer confirmed \u2018opt-in\u2019 mailing lists where the recipient or would-be subscriber provides a positive response to an initial email e.g. the recipient replies to an email or clicks on a link in the email indicating consent.<\/li>\n<li>A \u2018remove\u2019 or \u2018unsubscribe\u2019 link (an opt-out procedure) must be provided to make it easier for the recipient to revoke consent or cancel their subscription. Mailings must cease promptly once a subscription is cancelled.<\/li>\n<li>Mailing list administrators must take adequate steps to ensure that their lists are not used for abusive purposes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false,"plain":"<b>Spam <\/b>is a generic term that refers to the act of indiscriminately sending unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant or inappropriate messages via email.\r\n\r\nThese are usually promotions or advertisements sent in \u2018bulk\u2019 to the email addresses of people who have not requested this information.\r\n\r\nWe have a strict <a title=\"AUP\" href=\"\/legal\/acceptable-use-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acceptable Use Policy<\/a> that does not tolerate spam. For a mailing list to be considered legitimate and not spam the following criteria need to be met:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Administer confirmed \u2018opt-in\u2019 mailing lists where the recipient or would-be subscriber provides a positive response to an initial email e.g. the recipient replies to an email or clicks on a link in the email indicating consent.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>A \u2018remove\u2019 or \u2018unsubscribe\u2019 link (an opt-out procedure) must be provided to make it easier for the recipient to revoke consent or cancel their subscription. Mailings must cease promptly once a subscription is cancelled.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Mailing list administrators must take adequate steps to ensure that their lists are not used for abusive purposes.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam is a generic term that refers to the act of indiscriminately sending unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant or inappropriate messages via email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119,122,142],"tags":[315],"topics":[10459],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-managing","category-spam-and-security","tag-spam","topics-spam"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":119,"name":"Email","slug":"email","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":119,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Learn the basics and get going with our easy to set up email guides","parent":0,"count":125,"filter":"raw","term_order":"62","cat_ID":119,"category_count":125,"category_description":"Learn the basics and get going with our easy to set up email guides","cat_name":"Email","category_nicename":"email","category_parent":0},{"term_id":122,"name":"Managing your email","slug":"managing","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":122,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Managing your emails","parent":119,"count":31,"filter":"raw","term_order":"86","cat_ID":122,"category_count":31,"category_description":"Managing your emails","cat_name":"Managing your email","category_nicename":"managing","category_parent":119},{"term_id":142,"name":"Spam and Security","slug":"spam-and-security","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":142,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Protect your website against spam and abuse","parent":119,"count":15,"filter":"raw","term_order":"100","cat_ID":142,"category_count":15,"category_description":"Protect your website against spam and abuse","cat_name":"Spam and Security","category_nicename":"spam-and-security","category_parent":119}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":315,"name":"spam","slug":"spam","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":315,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3009"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"marketing","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/marketing\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a6ea315e112423b2b955cb020fbce2b0835956c6ad85ff0f13f1db298977eaaa?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}