wat is spam?

Answer 1

Spam refers to unsolicited bulk messages which are unwanted by the receiver. Though the term has become associated with emails, it actually all the cases including unwanted IMs, SMS and so on.

Almost all the email providers nowadays have spam filters which detect spams and separate them from the wanted mails that you receive .

Answer 2

Spam Spam Spam.. urgh.. I work for a very large Spam protection company (can not disclose name). I am a technician and all day I'm sitting here fighting the stuff. Spam is unwanted email that is mass produced and sent out to the world to annoy us all. Generally it is just a way for you to end up looking at there website, or to get a virus across.. Unfortunately, they are able to do this ligally because of the "free speach" act. We are working hard on trying to show that this is not free speach but a pain for everyone...

Answer 3

Spam is junk messages spread through E-Mail, Message Boards,
Newsgroups usaully they are a scam or contain bogus or nonsense information.

Answer 4

1. Brand name for a processed meat sold in cans SPAM.
2.Bulk electronic "junk mail." Unsolicited mail in your inbox.

Answer 5

Everything thats happening in this question is SPAM

Answer 6

Is some sort of mixed up canned grinded meat that you may slice up and eat...Hummm... Tastes just like a dead crab.

Answer 7

It is said to be "the miracle meat of a million uses"
http://www.spam.com/whatisspam/

In other corners of reality is is said to be unwanted email, especially if it is solicitation.

You really don't want either one inside of your computer if you can help it. ! !

Answer 8

Mystery meat.

Or the stupid advertisements that find thier way into your email.

Answer 9

Spam : Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages, which are almost universally undesired. While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, mobile phone messaging spam and junk fax transmissions.

Or it can be defines a s:
Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.

Different types of SPAMS :

Messaging spam, sometimes termed spim (a portmanteau of spam and IM, short for instant messenger), makes use of instant messaging systems, such as AOL Instant Messenger or ICQ. Many IM systems offer a user directory, including demographic information that allows an advertiser to gather the information, sign on to the system, and send unsolicited messages.
Chat spam: Chat spam can occur in any live chat environment like IRC and in-game multiplayer chat of online games. It consists of repeating the same word or sentence many times to get attention or to interfere with normal operations. It is generally considered very rude and may lead to swift exclusion “Spam” routine at high speed. They would fill the screen with “Spam Spam Spam eggs Spam Spam and Spam” etc, and make all other communication impossible.
Mobile phone spam:Mobile phone spam is directed at the text messaging service of a mobile phone. This can be especially irritating to customers not only for the inconvenience but also because of the fee that they are charged per text message. The term "SpaSMS" was coined at the adnews website Adland in 2000 to describe spam SMS.
Online game messaging spam:Many online games allow players to contact each other via player-to-player messaging, chatrooms, or public discussion areas. What qualifies as spam varies from game to game, but usually this term applies to all forms of message flooding, violating the terms of service contract for the website.
Spam targeting search engines (Spamdexing): Spamdexing (a portmanteau of spamming and indexing) refers to the practice on the World Wide Web of modifying HTML pages to increase the chances of them being placed high on search engine relevancy lists. It uses unethical means, "black hat SEO techniques." to unfairly increase the rank of sites in search engines. Many modern search engines modified their search algorithms to try to exclude web pages utilizing spamdexing tactics.
Blog, wiki, and guestbook spam:Blog spam, or "blam" for short is spamming on weblogs. In 2003, this type of spam took advantage of the open nature of comments in the blogging software Movable Type by repeatedly placing comments to various blog posts that provided nothing more than a link to the spammer's commercial web site. [1] Similar attacks are often performed against wikis and guestbooks, both of which accept user contributions.
Noncommercial spam:E-mail and other forms of spamming have been used for purposes other than advertisements. Many early Usenet spams were religious or political. Serdar Argic, for instance, spammed Usenet with historical revisionist screeds. A number of evangelists have spammed Usenet and e-mail media with preaching messages. A growing number of criminals are also using spam to perpetrate various sorts of fraud,and in some cases have used it to lure people to locations where they have been kidnapped, held for ransom, and even murdered.
Hobbit Spam:In early July 2006 there has been an enormous increase in unsolicited messages from a spoofed address with approximately half a dozen random letter subjects, containing nothing but three lines from JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. This follows fairly closely another similar form dubbed "discordian poetry" that appeared to used a random word generator of the same. The messages had no attempt to sell anything; it was theorised that this was a script kiddie ineptly running a spam suite. This was confirmed when shortly afterward the same format messages began appearing with image files overlaying the text (a common spam technique). It is suspected to be a variation from the same source and image overlays will begin appearing.
Spam as denial of service:Spamming has also been used as a denial of service ("DoS") tactic, particularly on Usenet. By overwhelming the readers of a newsgroup with an inordinate number of nonsense messages, legitimate messages and computing resources can be lost in the deluge. Since these messages are usually forged (that is, sent falsely under regular posters' names) this tactic has come to be known as sporgery (from spam + forgery). This tactic has for instance been used by members of the Church of Scientology against the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup (see Scientology versus the Internet) and by spammers against news.admin.net-abuse.email, a forum for mail administrators to discuss spam problems. Applied to e-mail, this is termed mailbombing. The Usenet Meow Wars (around 1996) were DoS attacks on various newsgroups aimed at specific posters that disrupted the newsgroups where they were active. The DoS attacks launched by Hipcrime, which continue today, are more crafted as DoS attacks on entire newsgroups. The alt.sex newsgroups were rendered uninhabitable by commercial **** site spammers, partially for advertising purposes and partially to destroy a perceived free competitor. (This spawned the creation of the moderated, unspammable soc.sexuality newsgroups.)
In Gaming:Spam (computer game)
In gaming, spamming is often used to describe repetitive and disruptive behavior.
In first person shooter type games, spamming refers to tactics where a player repeatedly and randomly fires into an area in the hope of scoring chance hits. Many games attempt to limit this by providing scenarios such as Capture the Flag.Spamming also describes players who repeatedly use a particular move to gain benefits over othe

Answer 10

Unwanted.. :-)