what is spam? how duz it work?
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Spam is a classification for junk mail. You find it in your e-mail, if you're a Yahoo user, it should be direccted to your BULK mail.
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Well, stop posting your email addres to the internet like you did in the question!!!  It makes it very easy for spammers to harvest.\n\nSet up a filter in your email service that sends spam to a junk/bulk folder so you don't have to see it.  Most email software allows you set either set filters or block address/senders.
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Is this SPAM?  I think so.
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Block it by marking it as SPAM
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Very informative question please read definitions below::\n\nSPAM\n\nTo indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Noun: electronic "junk mail".\n\nSpam refers to electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. In addition to being a nuisance, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Because the Internet is a public network, little can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, the use of software filters in e-mail programs can be used to remove most spam sent through e-mail.\n\n"SPAM" mail is the practice of sending massive amounts of e-mail promotions or advertisements (and scams) to people that have not asked for it. Spam mail is controversial and there are many levels of definitions for it. Many times, spam e-mail lists are created by "harvesting" e-mail addresses from discussion boards and groups, chat rooms, IRC, and web pages. Pugmarks strictly prohibits sending spam from accounts on our servers.\n\n\nA spam message is an unsolicited, usually commercial e-mail message. It is also referred to as UCE, or unsolicited commercial e-mail.\n\nAs a noun, an irrelevant message (frequently commercial advertising) cross-posted to many public fora (eg.: Usenet groups) simultaneously. As a verb, the act of posting such spam. The term is derived, obscurely, from a popular Monty Python comedy sketch that celebrates the pleasures of consuming a certain tinned meat product.\n\nSpam by e-mail is a type of spam that involves sending identical or nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. Addresses of recipients are often harvested from Usenet postings or web pages, obtained from databases, or simply guessed by using common names and domains. By definition, spam is sent without the permission of the recipients. \n\nSpam is repeated use of more than one grenade in one part of a map in the quake mod Team Fortress. It also broadly incorporates overuse of the in-game messaging system and excessive setting of detpacks (large-scale explosions). \n\nSpam is a popular Monty Python sketch, first broadcast in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast without SPAM from a menu which includes the processed meat product in every entree. The term spam (in electronic communication) is derived from this sketch. \n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/jcbroogley
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thanks...i will try!\nsince i use Mcafee internet suite....i don't really have any spam at all!!
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Your assertion that spamming is costly to the spammer isn't correct.  Spamming is extremely low cost for the spammer, it only takes fairly cheap internet service plus widely available tools to send millions of spam e-mails.  It is so low cost to the spammer that even if a very low number of people buy the product described in the spam, the spammer can usually still turn a profit.  Of course, its everyone else (the receiver and the internet service providers) which ultimately bear this cost.
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Don't bounce Spam - you would be confirming your existence.\nThen the spam could be targeted instead of random - there would be more of it!\nSpam filters - that's the way to do it!
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I used to manage a group of people for a major ISP and their sole job was to clear spam off our servers and respond to spam complaints. The definition that we used for spam was this: unsolicited commercial e-mail. Pure and simple, and the number of recipients didn't matter to us except from the standpoint of how much of it we would have to clear away.
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for this u just need to click on spam button. nothing else.
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You can mark each peice of spam as spam and eventually won't get those.  You have to remember spam people make money by getting it to your inbox so they are working everything they can to make sure they bypass the spam guards.  \n\nSpam Guards are always playing catch up and always will.  Its the name of the game.  Sorry we are all dealing with this.  I have set up my company and pay 2.25 per email box to block spam and still it gets threw every now and then.
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Don't waste your time.   The spam will only get worse, if you validate their attempts to reach you.   \n\nUse a SPAM folder or Anti-Spam software.  Try to minimize the time that you spend in dealing with it, but use the REPORT SPAM button religiously.
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Wow, someone who actually wants to get spam... \nok well this, as we all know is a pretty simple process, all you really need to do is click on things and sign up for 'free' things using the 'test' email address.  Your name will get added to one list, which will in turn get added to more and more....you know how that goes.  I would suggest just click on the ads on websites, sign up for free samples, even post your email address on here and see if anyone signs you up for stuff.  Signing up for just a few things will generate so many emails.  I hope this helps.  Best Wishes :-)
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spam\nE-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). Spam is used to advertise products or to broadcast some political or social commentary.\n\nThe term was supposedly coined from a Monty Python comedy sketch in the early 1970s, in which every item on a restaurant menu contained SPAM, and there was nothing a customer could do to get a meal without it. The sketch was derived from the fact that in England during World War II, SPAM (Hormel's processed meat) was abundantly available while other foods were rationed. Many believe spam is an acronym for "sales promotional advertising mail" or "simultaneously posted advertising message."
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Not just annoying.  These people make lots of money with their spam.  They can get as much as a nickle for each spam mail that someone opens.  When you consider they send thousands, or even millions of emails, those nickles add up each time someone opens one of their mails.  So don't open junk mail!  It only makes them send you more and more.  They also rent and sell your email address once they know it's valid.
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Actually, anyone has the "authority" to decide what\nis spam and what is a spam site, but of course some \npeople have more influence than others :-)\n\nConsider that any user can train their email filters\nhow to re-file incoming mail into an "inbox" or into\nsome kind of "junk" folder (or even directly into\nthe recycle bin).\n\nAt a higher level would be an ISP or even a telecom\ncompany that filters out everything from certain IP\naddresses which are generally recognized as sources\nof unwanted SPAM.\n\nThat higher level filtering is usually based on a\n"Black List" -- which is just a list of sites which\nare known spammers.  Anyone can create a "blacklist",\nbut the authority or power comes from whoever \npays attention to it (and thus filters traffic \nbased on it).\n\nFor more information, search for "blacklist+spam" in google
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From Wikipedia:\n\nThe term spam is derived from the Monty Python SPAM sketch, set in a cafe where everything on the menu includes SPAM luncheon meat. As the server recites the SPAM-filled menu, presently a chorus of Viking patrons drowns out all normal conversation with a song, repeating "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM" and singing "lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM" over and over again, stopping all conversation, hence SPAMming the dialogue.\n...\nIn the 1980s the term was adopted to describe certain abusive users who frequented BBSs and MUDs, who would repeat "SPAM" a huge number of times to scroll other users' text off the screen.\n...\nCommercial spamming started in force on 5 March 1994, when a pair of lawyers, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, began using bulk Usenet posting to advertise immigration law services.\n...\nWithin a few years, the focus of spamming (and antispam efforts) moved chiefly to e-mail, where it remains today.