2007-10-02 18:00:35 · 5 answers · asked by pamad 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
'Spam' is unwanted, invasive Internet advertising. It is invasive, in that you haven't asked for it and it gets sent to you anyway.
Most spam is commercial advertising, typically for get-rich-quick schemes, or probable scams. Spam costs the sender very little to send - most of the costs are borne by the recipient or the carriers. It consumes your resources.
Use a separate email address when you post messages to any public forum, such as newsgroups and mailing lists. Never use your personal email address for this purpose - or you'll be flooded with spam, as you've obviously already found out.
2007-10-02 19:29:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I fail to understand how your CPU usage being low since 2001 figures into your question...
The word "Spam" as applied to Email means Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE").
Unsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent.
Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantively identical content.
A message is Spam (legally and can be prosecuted by law) only if it is both Unsolicited and Bulk.
- Unsolicited Email is normal email
(examples: first contact enquiries, job enquiries, sales enquiries)
- Bulk Email is normal email
(examples: subscriber newsletters, customer communications, discussion lists)
Various jurisdictions have implemented legislation to control what they call "spam". One particular example is US S.877 (CANSPAM 2004). Each law addresses "spam" in different ways, and as a consequence, often has different definitions of what they cover, whether they call it "spam" or not.
By law, UBE must contain an OPT-OUT in the form of the user being able to reply asking to be removed or via a link to click on in the message. This is the problem because the links are often going to abuse you further such as malicious scripts, phishing, etc... or they simply are non-working or they are designed to verify that they've sent something to a valid address.
The best way to deal with real SPAM is to enable Full Headers on your email client and forward the entire message to spam@uce.gov (making sure it copies into the body of the message or you will have to manually copy and paste) and if you are able to read the headers X-Originating-IP and perform a trace, then also forward to abuse departments at the ISP's the mail is coming from.
GOOD LUCK!
2007-10-03 03:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you sort've answered it right there - uninvited emails.
It's the internet equivalent of junk mail. It can also refer to repetitive communications - like if your friends send you the same glurgey group email over and over, it' s spam.
2007-10-03 01:03:46 · answer #3 · answered by spider 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You answered your own question. Spam is uninvited e-mail.
Like the junk mail in your USPS mailbox.
Post above beat me by a minute.
2007-10-03 01:04:41 · answer #4 · answered by Michael S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
spam is unwanted emails, usually from companies and such..to find out more about spam, there is a link attached that explains it all
2007-10-03 01:09:23 · answer #5 · answered by sgtevil2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋