| Junk
email that arrives in your mailbox that you
didn't ask to get. Spam
is unsolicited e-mail on the Internet. From the sender's
point-of-view, it's a form of bulk mail, often to a list obtained
from a spambot or to a list obtained by companies that specialize in
creating e-mail distribution lists. To the receiver, it usually
seems like junk e-mail. It's roughly equivalent to unsolicited
telephone marketing calls except that the user pays for part of the
message since everyone shares the cost of maintaining the Internet.
Spammers typically send a piece of e-mail to a distribution list in
the millions, expecting that only a tiny number of readers will
respond to their offer. Spam has become a major problem for all
Internet users. |
