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What makes you think you're not spending spam?

I'm not being glib. Really ask yourself if it's necessary to email this information to users. If I get email from a company and I don't want it, I don't like your company. If your company has information that you think is important to me, notify me next time I log in. Let me determine whether or not it's important.

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It's information typically requested by a user (e.g. forgot password, register confirmation, etc.).

You must be running quite a big site if you're sending out 100k+ per month messages on forgotten passwords and registration confirmation.

Plus invitations, message notices, etc.

Invitations and message notices are exactly what I was talking about.

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