| 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.
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