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Explanation of spam is here:
E-mail Analysis Page
Overall is SiteAdvisor's overall rating for a Web site's e-mail practices. We rate sites based on both how much e-mail they send as well as how spammy the e-mail we receive from them looks. If either of these measures is higher than what we consider acceptable, we'll give the site a yellow warning. If both measures are high, or one of them looks particularly egregious, we'll give the site a red warning.
SiteAdvisor uses unique e-mail addresses for each and every sign-up form we encounter. This allows us to know which exact sign up form caused us to receive each individual e-mail, even if e-mails are sent from different senders. (As you can imagine, we get lots of spam in our inbox. Actually, we get far more than you do. We just happen to know why we got each particular piece of e-mail.)
How Much Email describes both the volume and spamminess of the e-mail we received as a result of registering at this Web site.
The volume number you see is the weekly or monthly average quantity of e-mails we received since we signed up.
The SpamAssassin score you see is a measure of an e-mail's spamminess. Spamminess may be a made up word, but its score is based on hard facts and data. To reach a number, SiteAdvisor uses definitions from SpamAssassin, an open-source spam filter. Low or negative numbers indicate low or no spamminess in the e-mails received. Higher numbers indicate increasing spamminess. The vast majority of sites that send e-mail earn scores between -5 and +20.
Spamminess measures an e-mail's commercial content and whether the e-mail employs tricks known to be used by spammers attempting to get through anti-spam filters. Since SiteAdvisor proactively signs up at the Web sites we review, we're asking for whatever it is they say they're going to send us. In that sense, some of the e-mails that we receive that get a high spamminess rating from SpamAssassin's definitions may not violate the CAN-SPAM Act or other legal or industry definitions of spam. Our goal with this score is to be able to tell you what could happen if you sign-up to, so you know whether you want to opt in yourself.
If in fact they are wrong, they should retract the dangerous rating and let Epic post the retraction as well as the link showing they are now safe. If Epic doesn't post it (or sue them) then Epic is in fact dangerous to surfers.
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