What is Spamming?

Answer 1

Spamming is when someone sends their message to several thousand Usenet groups, chat rooms and/or thousands of individual e-mail addresses. These messages often promote a business or fringe point-of-view. If you send one, you risk receiving thousands of flames and the cancellation of your account.

Answer 2

Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited, bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, and mobile phone messaging spam.

Spamming is economically viable because advertisers have effectively no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists. Because the barrier to entry is so low, the volume of unsolicited mail produces costs, such as lost productivity and fraud, which are borne by the public and by Internet service providers, which add extra capacity to cope with the deluge. Spamming is widely reviled, and has been the subject of legislation in many jurisdictions.

Answer 3

In addition to the definitions given above, "SPAM" is also used to refer to web pages pretending to be something they are not. For example, some pages have popular search terms in the "metatext", which you don't see, but search engines do. Every year, there is an interesting workshop on how to fight this kind of spam. It's AIRWeb. I put a couple of related links under "Sources".

I also now refer to calls from tememarketers as "phone spam".

Answer 4

Spamming is e-mail sent to a large number of e-mail addresses who have not signed up for your list. These can be purchased and some people scrape them off the Internet.

Today...if you have had an e-mail address for more than a month you are being spammed.

When you sign up for almost any e-mail list you are asking for this to happen. Not always but too often.

Answer 5

SPAM stands fro Sending Particularly Annoying Messages... Pretty straightforward what SPAMming is now...
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Answer 6

SPAM stands for Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages/Material

Answer 7

E-mail spam is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients by E-mail. Perpetrators of such spam ("spammers") often harvest addresses of prospective recipients from Usenet postings or from web pages, obtain them from databases, or simply guess them by using common names and domains. By popular definition, spam occurs without the permission of the recipients.

Spamming is the action of it...

Answer 8

Spam is email that is both unsolicited and commercial in nature.

*Unsolicited: The email has been sent without the permission of the person who received it

*Commercial: The email discusses buying, selling or trading of goods or services

Answer 9

Spamming is when someone tries to swindle or cheat you out of something. It usually is in mail. To send unsolicited e-mail to.
To send (a message) indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups.

Answer 10

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Thats a sample of spamming people do it in chat rooms to slow it down and annoy people,

Answer 11

Sending unsolicited bulk and/or commercial messages over the Internet