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Although having an email address is a necessity in modern times, nearly every internet user has been exposed to the wide world of email spam. Spam messages have been plaguing the internet for years, and these bulk, unsolicited emails only seem to be growing in number as the internet expands. However, there are ways to lower your risk... more »
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E-mail spam, also known as junk e-mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk."spamfaq">"rhyolite">"spamcop">"abuse">"monkeys"> "UCE" refers specifically to unsolicited commercial e-mail.
E-mail spam has steadily, even exponentially grown since the early 1990s to several billion messages a day. The total volume of spam (over 100 billion emails per day ) has leveled off slightly in recent years, and is no longer growing exponentially. The amount received by most e-mail users has decreased, mostly because of better filtering. About 80% of all spam is sent by fewer than 200 spammers. Botnets, networks of virus-infected computers, are used to send about 80% of spam. Since the cost of the spam is borne mostly by the recipient,"spam-costs"/> it is effectively postage due advertising.
The legal status of spam varies from one jurisdiction to another. In the United States, spam was declared to be legal by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 provided the message adheres to certain specifications. ISPs have attempted to recover the cost of spam through lawsuits against spammers, although they have been mostly unsuccessful in collecting damages despite winning in court."AOL gives up treasure hunt">
Spammers collect e-mail addresses from chatrooms, websites, customer lists, newsgroups, and viruses which harvest users address books, and are sold to other spammers. Much of spam is sent to invalid e-mail addresses. Spam averages 78% of all e-mail sent."NYTimes.com">
Overview
From the beginning of the Internet (the ARPANET), sending of junk e-mail has been prohibited,Gary Thuerk, who sent the first e-mail spam message in 1978 to 600 people, was reprimanded and told not to do it again. enforced by the Terms of Service/Acceptable Use Policy (ToS/AUP) o read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail+spam
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