1-) Email marketing is not illegal in the US if you are CAN-Spam compliant.
2-) Spamming is not illegal in Canada and many other countries around the world
3-) Spamhaus and other anti-spam organizations alike are all corrupt, bribe taking, trigger happy assholes who are nothing more than glorified digital hall monitors. People that get so infuriated over advertisements in their email, have the same type of mentality as people that brutalize animals and abuse people. They are seriously disturbed individuals that found a legal way to bully others from behind their computer screen and take their aggressions out on them. Their lives are so pitiful that even attempting to inflict some kind of pain and suffering on others, even virtually, is the only way they feel better about themselves and their pathetic lives.
There are far worse things in life than spending 2 minutes a day deleting unwanted advertisements. Personally, I'm fed up with all the paper junk we get in postal mail. It's time and space consuming, and unsolicited. That's acceptable though. Why? Because it all comes down to the almighty dollar. Lets not even get into the cost of paying for cable/satellite TV and still having to endure endless commercials. Advertising is everywhere you turn... you can't avoid it. Why would anyone with any live brain cells think the internet and email inboxes would be exempt?
