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What is Spam?Unsolicted Commercial Email, Junk or Spam can loosely be defined as an unsolicited electronic mail sent to one or many users. Because of the way the Internet mail protocol (SMTP) works it is easy for spammers to send thousands of mail messages while incurring little cost to themselves. However far from being a benign form of advertising SPAM costs everyone else on the internet. ISP must relay messages and users must pay in the form of subscription and telephone charges to download SPAM. That's not to mention the time taken to sort SPAM mails from everything else. Typical SPAM mails included:-
In a single day my 'test' account at hotmail received the following SPAM mails:-
Often SPAM is sent through 'trial' Internet accounts making it hard to trace, or return addresses are disguised. Sometimes hitting 'reply' merely confirms to the spammer that your address is active further encouraging these activities. last updated: 28 April 2000 |