what should be considered as spam?

Question

i know what spam e-mail is so why arent pop-up considered spam also. They are more annoying and just as dangerous as spam e-mails.

Answer 1

Pop-ups are equivalent to spam. They just don't give you the option of deleting them before you look at them.

Pop-up Ad:
A type of window that appears on top of (over) the browser window of a Web site that a user has visited. In contrast to a pop-under ad, which appears behind (in back of) the browser window, a pop-up is more obtrusive as it covers other windows, particularly the window that the user is trying to read. Pop-ups ads are used extensively in advertising on the Web, though advertising is not the only application for pop-up windows.
A pop-up ad is also referred to as a pop-up

Spam:
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.

Answer 2

Because Spam is a type of e-mail. Pop-ups are not e-mail, so they are not spam. They also are not covered under the current laws against spam.

The programs and technology used to porduct pop-ups is totally different from the programs used to produce and distribute spam e-mail.

Because they are such totally different things, they have different names. But you are right that they are equally annoying.

Answer 3

hello , should be considered as spam?
50 email a day block them

Answer 4

mail that you have not asked for and do not want you may have accidenly signed up for it but it is still spam find out who it's from and you can robably stop it