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SPAM
Spam is most often considered to be electronic junk mail or junk
newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any
unsolicited email. However, if a long-lost brother finds your email address
and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it is
unsolicited. Real spam is generally email advertising for some product sent
to a mailing list or newsgroup.
In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also
eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many
organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to
fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public,
there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is
impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have
instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers.
Why it is Called Spam?
There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally
accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam
spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam". Like the
song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of
thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University
of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same
characteristics as the lunch meat Spam:
-Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.
-No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side
when eating the entree.
-Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really
useful to some people.
The term spam can also be used to describe any "unwanted"
email from a company or website -- typically at some point a user would have
agreed to receive the email via subscription list opt-in -- a newer term
called graymail is used to describe this particular type of spam.
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