What is spam?

Answer 1

A processed meat product produced by Hormel?

Email spam is usually "unsolicited commercial email", but the "commercial" part is not strictly necessary. For example, emails sent to spread trojans and viruses are usually classified as spam. The term is often used for other environments as well for unwanted messages, like forum spam, IM spam (SPIM), Answers spam.

The name most likely originates from the Monty Python "spam" skit

Answer 2

Spam refers to electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. In addition to being a nuisance, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Because the Internet is a public network, little can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, the use of software filters in e-mail programs can be used to remove most spam sent through e-mail.

Answer 3

Unsolicited and unwanted e-mails that often offer you money and come in huge quantities. It takes up lots of space in your inbox. Spam can also be the excessive copying and pasting of a message in a chat room or instant messenger.

E-mail providers usually have a spam or junk-mail filtering.

Answer 4

Dear,

E-mail spam

View of a modern spam email, containing an advertising image.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.

Spam (electronic)

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You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. A KMail folder of spam messages.Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited, undesired 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 no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings. Because the barrier to entry is so low, spammers are numerous, and the volume of unsolicited mail has become very high. The costs, such as lost productivity and fraud, 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.


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Answer 5

Unwanted junk mail, ads & offers etc. in other words NEVER ENDING CRAP that keeps appearing in you email inbox or a jelly like meat substance in a can made of unwanted meat by products. Same concept.

Answer 6

junk mail ! but instead of coming through your letter box its delivered to your computer