The short answer is NO!
Such unsolicited email messages are catagorized as UCE ( Unsolicited Commerical
Email). An extensive effort among the Internet
software and engineering community has been devoted to the prevention, blocking, and
countering of such activities, which in a whole have an extremely unpleasant name -
spamming. It is an almost sure fire way of inviting acts of retaliation such as mail
bombs, and blocking of access privileges.
At least in the US legislature,
some progress has been made in treating such activities as illegal as sending out junk
faxes to others.
Furthermore, again in the US, legal precedences have been established and have always
favored the receiving side, such as the high profile case of CompuServe vs. Cyberpromo.
Because of this case, and other misdeeds, Cyberpromo has become a truely disgraced name on
the Internet, and has been the target of complete access blocking at many Internet
sites in many different countries.
On the Internet, it's impossible to hide one's identity and send out UCEs at the same
time. It's only a matter of time before a spammer will be caught.
By engaging in such activities, it's very likely that you will not only get yourself
into legal troubles, but also bring negative impact to your hosting company since most
sites receiving your UCEs will complain to your ISP.
However, any self-respecting ISP has an explicit policy that bans such activities
altogether, treating them as grounds for termination of services without any
compensation. ISPs who don't ban spamming are often blocked by other ISPs and
organizations. A recent case involves Stanford University, one of the 128 Class A Internet
sites in the world. The university has blocked all IPs owned by a specific web hosting
company located in Boca Raton, Florida, US, because this company is basically a nest for
spammers.
For the record, DomainNameRegistration.com has always had a policy that prohibits spamming since
the company's inception.
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