A not-spam report is not a purchase.

Answer A not-spam report is not a purchase. RFC 6430 describes an email feedback report type with the value not-spam. A report that a message was wanted is not an order. The document is RFC 6430, titled Email Feedback Report Type Value: not-spam. That is a fact about mail software or about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in. A rented send is one letter to someone else's list. A report that the letter was wanted is not a sale, and it is not the list.

The note that started this: RFC 6430, Email Feedback Report Type Value: not-spam, RFC 6430.

Feedback reports are how a mailbox can say something about a message after the fact. The value not-spam says the message was wanted. Wanted is not bought. A person can want a letter and still not order. If you are comparing best solo ad vendors, listen for who treats that report as revenue. They are selling a feedback value as if it were a purchase. It is not.

The seller counts not-spam reports and talks about orders as if they were the same event. The buyer pays for wanted and repeats it as a purchase. The document will not back that sentence. It names a report type. A report type is not an order.

What report type does RFC 6430 name?

RFC 6430 describes an email feedback report type with the value not-spam. A report that a message was wanted is not an order. The document is titled Email Feedback Report Type Value: not-spam.

Name the thing accurately and the confusion shrinks. The thing is a feedback report. Its type value is not-spam. The meaning you are allowed to carry onto this desk is the one in the facts. A report that a message was wanted is not an order. You are not allowed to promote wanted into paid, and you are not allowed to promote the existence of the type into a promise about where mail lands. The document is a name for a report. Use the name. Then stop.

A seller who shows the value and waits for you to gasp has built a pitch on a label. A buyer who gasps has agreed that a feedback vocabulary is a commercial result. It is not. Ask what the report is attached to. If it is attached to a message someone marked as wanted, you have learned that, and only that. You have not learned that an offer was accepted. You have not learned that the list is the list you think you are renting.

• Not-spam is described as a report value, not as an order.
• Wanted is not entered as a purchase.
• The list is named without the report type.
• The refund line does not depend on a not-spam report existing.

Does a not-spam report prove a stranger opted in?

No. That is a fact about mail software or about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in. Wanted, in a report, is not a purchase and not permission you can resell.

Opt-in happens before a letter, or it does not. A not-spam report, when it happens, happens because of a message that already went. Those are different moments. A stranger who never joined a list can still be the subject of a report, and a person who joined can still never produce one. The report does not reach backward and create permission. It certainly does not create permission you can rent to the next buyer.

If a seller says the reports prove the file is clean enough to sell, they have left the document. Clean is their word. The document's word is not-spam, as a feedback type, meaning a message was wanted. Wanted once, about one message, is not a standing invitation for your next offer. Buyer consequence: you rent a file on the strength of a report type. Seller consequence: the next letter is disputed, and the only exhibit is a specification about feedback. That exhibit does not show opt-in.

What should you require on the order anyway?

A buyer still has to name the list, the sending domain, and the refund line on the order. A not-spam report names none of them. Do not trade the report for those lines.

The list is whose file gets the letter. The domain is the sender. The refund line is the remedy if you do not get that send. A feedback value cannot impersonate any of the three. If the seller slides the report across the table when you ask for the list, slide it back. You asked for a name. A report type is not a name of a list, not a domain, and not a refund.

A not-spam report is not a purchase. Keep it in the feedback column. When you want a seller who will name the file instead of a report value, start with safe solo ads sellers and ask for the list, the domain, and the refund before anyone says not-spam. Wanted is not bought. Do not pay as if it were.