GedaliahTobiah

I would like to pass out notecards with philosophical/religious information written in them. I intend to send one tract per person that I come near, although I expect that over time some people may receive it again if I come across them again without realizing it. The notecards will not contain any anything profane, sexual, abusive, or related to business, such as advertisements. The notecards will contain information relating to religion or philosophy and often goes by the term 'tract'. I see this as similar to standing on a public sidewalk and handing out such tracts, one at a time, as people are welcome to take them or reject them and those that receive them can simply throw them away or otherwise ignore them. The information would otherwise be copied into local chat except that it would be too long, the purpose of notecards from what I understand. All people I send a tract to are able to respond by nature of knowing who sent it as well as it instructs all those who read it to contact the creator, me, for questions, comments, and complaints. That all being said, I am curious at what scenario below (or any other not listed), if any, would it be considered spamming? I enter a place, especially a popular one, and send a tract notecard to everyone near me unsolicited at the same time and then field any responses to the notecard while I am there.I do the same as number 1 except that I leave after I send the notecard but still field responses from the next place, perhaps sending the tracts while there.I repeat number 1 except that I limit the number of people I give to at one time to about a dozen or so.I go to a place and go through the list of people there one at a time and send the tract unsolicited, also fielding all responses.I do a search for people with a given string in their name and send it to all or many of them at once, fielding all responses.Repeat number 5 but sending to one person at a time.Using a script to send the tract to people in batches (perhaps dozens or hundreds) at a time, prompting me before every batch is run, as always, with me personally fielding all responses to the tracts.If all such scenarios are not necessarily considered spam, please provide a scenario that would be a minimum to be considered spam. Also, the converse: if all are considered spam, please provide a scenario that would be the maximum that would not be considered spam. In addition, are there limits to the number of people to whom a notecard can be sent at the same time? In a single logged in session? In a minute, hour, day, etc.? I know this question is somewhat elaborate, but the Linden terms of use did not seem to include what I wanted to do (mostly scenarios 1 through 4) under the definition of spamming. I would like to share the information in my tracts with as many people as possible while still following the terms of service and community guidelines both in the letter and in spirit, as well as trying to respect people and their wishes wherever reasonable. I appreciate all real answers and hope I would receive the sources of the reasoning behind your answers cited as well in the answer, if possible. Thank you, kindly. Have a great day.