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Also known as UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), spam, not to be confused with the meat
product, is slang commonly
used to describe junk e-mail on the Internet. Spam is
e-mail sent to thousands and sometimes millions of people without
prior approval, promoting a particular product, service or a scam to
get other people's money. The first spam e-mail was sent by Gary
Thuerk in 1978 an employee at
Digital who was advertising the
new DECSYSTEM-2020, 2020T, 2060, AND 2060T on
ARPAnet. Computer Hope does not
participate or endorse spam. We believe the best method of not
receiving spam is simply to delete it and not to participate in the
product or service they are endorsing. In some cases replying to
that e-mail indicates that your e-mail address is valid and your
e-mail address may be sent to other spam lists, although this is
prohibited in many countries.
- Additional information about how to
help prevent e-mail spam can be found on
document CH000477.
- See document CH000883
for additional information about nonsense spam messages.
Below is an monthly poll we
conducted August 1 - 31, 2003 to help see how much spam messages
our visitors receive weekly.
None
(106 votes)
6.26%
1 to 50 (534 votes)
31.54%
50 to 100 (385 votes)
22.74%
Over 100 (635 votes)
37.51%
Not sure (33 votes)
1.95%
(Total Votes: 1693 )
2. When talking in chat or a newsgroup,
spam, also known as flooding, is the process of posting multiple lines
of the same text two or more times. In a newsgroup, if a message is
posted two or more times, this is also considered spam or a flood of messages.
Also see: Blacklist, Chain mail, Chat
definitions, E-mail, E-mail
bomb, Flood, Joe
Job, Mail relay, MAPS, Opt,
Phishing, RBL,
RSS, Scam,
Security definitions,
Spim, Spit, Splogs
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