what is meant by spam?

Answer 1

Spam is an e-mail message that is send to many people and floods Internet with copies. People don't with to receive it, but it is sent without permission. Usually spam methods are used for advertising and commercial purposes. It is cheap way to advertise services and products because it costs very little or doesn't cost anything. Everything is paid by recipient or the carriers. Often it's illegal.

Types of spam:

1. Cancellable Usenet spam;
2. Email spam;
3. Messaging spam;
4. Mobile phone spam;
5. Internet telephony spam;
6. Search engine spam;
7. Comment spam;

These spams differently affects Internet user. Target of Cancellable Usenet spam is Usenet newsgroup users. The spam message is sent to to all group of 20 or more people. Opposite to this, Email spam targets individual users. Usenet postings are scanned and spam message is sent directly to the owner of the address.
Messaging spam is often called spim in it affect users of instant messaging services, like ICQ, AIM, MSN, etc.
Mobile phone spam uses SMS to advertise their products or services. It's very annoying and sometimes costs to the recipient.
Unlike other spammers, Internet telephony spammers use voice based communication. They record spam message and flood Internet with it.

Does it cost?
Spam e-mail cost to those people that use phone connection for their Internet. As long as you are reading unnecessary e-mail, or waiting until it is arriving, the time runs and fee for service is growing. Further more, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.

Stop spam:
If you have already some spam in your e-mail box, you should know some things things that you shouldn't do. First of all never reply to spam and don't use the suggested "remove" method. It is also important that you don't go to suggested links. It's because when you take these action you confirm you e-mail address and moreover you show spammers that you read their spam! Sometimes it doesn't need this because if you get an e-mail with a little bit of coded graphics and your mailer fetches it, the spammer knows that you have opened the e-mail and verified this address.

The second thing that is advised not to do is that you should not buy anything that was advertised you by e-mail. As spam is illegal the offers might be fraudulent.
If you want to prevent yourself from spam, you should first read online forms before you fill them. If they don't ask you e-mail, don't write it. But if it's needed, use multiple e-mail addresses.

There are many websites that offer free e-mail services with anti-spam filter. It's also recommended to install some anti-spam softwares (like SpamBully, Control Spam, etc.) or to use advanced Internet filtering software that provides e-mail filtering function (for example CYBERsitter, NetNanny, etc.)

Answer 2

In April of 1994, the term was not born, but it did jump a great deal in popularity when two lawyers from Phoenix named Canter and Siegel posted a message advertising their fairly useless services in an upcoming U.S. "green card" lottery. This wasn't the first such abusive posting, nor the first mass posting to be called a spam, but it was the first deliberate mass posting to commonly get that name. They had posted their message a few times before, but on April 12, they hired an mercenary programmer to write a simple script to post their ad to every single newsgroup (message board) on USENET, the world's largest online conferencing system. There were several thousand such newsgroups, and each one got the ad.

Quickly people identified it as "spam" and the word caught on. Future multiple postings soon got the appelation. Some people also applied it to individual unwanted ads that weren't posted again and again, though generally it was associated with the massive flood of the same message. It turns out, however, that the term had been in use for some time before the famous green card flood.

Later, some particularly nasty folks figured they could take mass e-mailing software (which had been around for decades to handle mailing lists) and use it to send junk e-mail to large audiences who hadn't asked for it. The term quickly came to be used to describe these unwanted junk e-mails, and indeed that is the most common use of the term today.

Answer 3

Spam email or junk email is unwanted email received by the recipient. Almost every internet user will have received emails promising millions of dollars from corrupt politicians. Many hours are wasted due to spam email. However, by taking simple precautions while giving out your email and installing updated free software, you can prevent spam. More info available at
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Answer 4

http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm

You've probably seen, heard or even used the term "spamming" to refer to the act of sending unsolicited commercial email (UCE), or "spam" to refer to the UCE itself. Following is our position on the relationship between UCE and our trademark SPAM.

Use of the term "spam" was adopted as a result of the Monty Python skit in which the SPAM meat product was featured. In this skit, a group of Vikings sang a chorus of "spam, spam, spam . . . " in an increasing crescendo, drowning out other conversation. Hence, the analogy applied because UCE was drowning out normal discourse on the Internet.

Answer 5

Spam may mean:

Spam (food), canned meat sold by Hormel.
Spam (Monty Python), a comedy sketch involving the meat. The technological term takes its name from this sketch.
Spam (dance), a type of alternative dancing method
Spam (electronic), unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages.
E-mail spam, unsolicited emails with advertisements.
Forum spam, posting advertisements or useless posts on a forum
Spamdexing, manipulating a search engine to create the illusion of popularity for webpages.
Messaging spam ("SPIM"), use of instant messenger services for advertisement or even extortion.

Answer 6

SPAM is usually referred to the junk mail that you get via e-mail. It's basically people trying to solicite stuff to you that you don't want. Most e-mail systems like Yahoo! have a button you can push to block spam.

Also, Spam is a type of canned meat, but that's a whole other subject.

Answer 7

Spam is sort of meat, as in beef or lamb. But it's not beef or lamb it's just sort of some horrible approximation of it.

And if your normal you do not what it.

Spam as applied to Email is rubbish Emails you do not want. Even though you do want Email

If someone wants to know about penis enlarging products and cheap Ink Jet Cartridges then it's not spam as far as they are concerned, it's advertising.

For us it's Spam

You and I want Ham I think. That is - the real deal. Email we want to receive.

Answer 8

Spam is a term used to describe unsolicited junk e-mail that is delivered to your mailbox. Usually spam has advertisements and other marketing gimmicks.

Answer 9

Spam aka junk email, it's the email version of the junk mail you get stuffed in your house's mail box every day. I think they call it spam as some kind of acronym or something but I'm not certain. S.P.A.M.?

Answer 10

Unsolicited bulk e-mail. Full description is linked below.