what is spam?

Answer 1

It's a canned meat type of food.

Answer 2

What is Spam ?
Spam


is a meat-based product manufactured by Hormel Foods Corporation and immortalised by a famous Monty Python sketch. It has since been adopted by the Internet community to signify the mindless mass-posting of messages to Usenet or email, flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message. Spam is unwanted, invasive Internet advertising. Spam comes to you in two ways: either through Usenet's newsgroups, or via Email. Spam is invasive, in that you haven't asked for it and it gets sent to you (or posted to your newsgroup) anyway.

Why is spam bad ?
Some can be recognised instantly (e.g. MAKE MONEY FAST as subject..) but often you have to read the first sentence or two to be sure. If you get this dozens or hundreds of times a day (as I do) then short seconds become long minutes. It takes about 10 seconds to recognise a spam and delete it. I get perhaps 60 a day, so that's 10 minutes of my time (double that if I respond to the 'remove from list' invitation, which usually bounces), and 60 times I had to be reminded about how low 'humans' can sink. The spam rate is increasing so my 10 minutes is soon going to be far more.. unless I drop that particular email account. It may sound like cutting off my nose to spite my face, but right now my 'nose' is being punched several times a day..
As frustrating as the time and effort wasted, is the incredible stupidity of the schemes being offered. They depend on the fact that, in the USA at least, there seem to be a zillion suckers, and the leeches to prey on them. If you are familiar with 'infomercials' on late-night American TV - well, they are even more stupid than that. Spam is an American phenomenon (born of deep-rooted cultural memes such as Free Speech; consumerism; dislike of intrusive government) that's going to become a global problem soon enough. Although most people (Americans included) don't like spam, there's a vocal minority who worry that regulating the Interenet in any way will lead to the destruction of the American Way of Life (and therefore the World), and Big Brother will take over. Why worry if you have to delete a few spams each morning? Well, just wait till it's a few hundred...

Answer 3

Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.

In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers.

There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam:

* Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.
* No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree.
* Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.

Answer 4

It is a canned meat made of Pork. It fed most of the U.S. and England during WWII. Spam is still very popular today. It can feed 4 people, ealily from one can.

http://www.spam.com/

Spam is also the word used for any unwanted or unasked for emails. Never click on a link or attachment in an email you didn't ask to receive. Never trust an email you didn't ask to receive. Here is a site that explains it well and gives excellent information about it.

http://spam.anti-spam-software.com/

Alhough they sell a spam program, you don't have to buy it. There are great free ones if you need one. Here is a site with several free ones you can check out.

http://www.spambutcher.com/spamblockingsoftware.html

http://www.spambutcher.com/spamblockingsoftware.html

Answer 5

well..I've wondered that too then i asked and i was told that spam is like the junk mail you get at home...which is a variety of things..it can also be considered mail from someone not in your address book. its not like spyware,,,,,SPYWARE is when you get a 'bug'' that follows your moves on the Internet,,basically waiting for a chance to grab some private info,,this is now people get their id's stolen,,,id theft.......adware is just that,,,ads of any kind.

Answer 6

Spam is unwanted, undesired, and unrequested email.
Spyware, sometimes confused with spam, are secondary programs which install themselves on your computer (or entice you to install them) which have negative effects on your computer performance.

Answer 7

Depends on what you're referring to? Food or annoying e-mail.

Food = pork shoulder and ham, blended up and stuffed in a can - Pretty annoying

E-mail = unwanted solicitations for crap you never showed any interest in - Pretty annoying too.

Worst part is for the food, you had to choose to eat it. For the e-mail, someone is trying to stuff it down your throat.

Answer 8

a) Junk Mail
b) Highly-disgusting "meat"

Answer 9

unsolicited advertising that probably is looking to put a tracking cookie in your pc, usually come in your email inbox, delete, delete, delete!

Answer 10

it is like half ham half rectangular goodness and you can fry it scramble it deep fry or bake it if you go to hawaii you can't help but eat it.