# Cold Emailing

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cold-emailing/31930>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [September 29, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cold-emailing/31930 "2003-09-29T11:18:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![adfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@adfox](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/adfox)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cold-emailing/31930/1 "2003-09-29T11:18:53Z")

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Heloo,

Does anyone know if cold emailing is illegal?? I know that cold telephone calling is illegal, but what about email??

The reason I ask is that there are programs that harvest emails for marketing purposes and I was wondering how legal they are to use??

thanks

andy.