What exactly is spamming??
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wow.. welcome to the internet.
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YES! ITS A REAL VIRUS SPREADING PIECE OF SH*T hacker trying to invade your computer. delete and mark as spam on email server.
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spam mail is junk from websites that carry viruses or spyware, or popups, just junk that you should not go to cause sometimes they are web sites that dont even exist.
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Everyone else answered your first and last question, so you should know what spam is now.\n\nThe most important question, "How to avoid it," has not been answered, and most people don't seem to figure it out, and would rather waste their time fighting it and installing new software and doing "maintenance."\n\nThe best way to do away with spam, is to open a second email account, and never, ever, ever sign up online for anything on the internet with that account. \n\nNow that the internet folks have your email address, it will only get worse as they sell your information to others, pass it around, trade it for other information, and generally expand the proliferation of your email address.\n\nAlmost all ISP's offer multiple email addresses, or you can get a freebie from Yahoo or MSN or whatever. \n\nNot only the "best" way, but the only way to do away with spam is to create a clean email account, and don't give it away to people you don't know. Nobody can use your email that you don't give it to. Use your spammed account to chat or join rss feeds or groups.\n\nGood luck fighting the old account. It's a losing battle.\n\nIncidentally, I have an email account I use strictly for my business that has never received one email I didn't want; not one piece of spam in over a year. What a pleasure it is to use, when you know waiting email is something you need or want. No more time wasted for unneccessary "maintenance" and fiddling with filters and blockers and the latest new spam program.
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spam is all those marketing ads that you get in your inbox everyday and you just wished they'd not send them cause most of the time you never care...its always something you already have or are not interested in.\nan elevated case of spam is when someone sends you an email asking you to confirm your details...eg you get an email from a supposedly registered website eg. your bank saying you confirm your credit card number, SSN number .....and other personal imformation. usually it is not who you think they are but they will make it look like its legit, in such a case call the bank or whoever is asking for your info to confirm. this is known as phishing
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spam is short for stupid people annoying me and its what people call the junk mail you get in your inbox
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It may be a spam-blocker setting.
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You're receiving SPAM! \n\nAll the information you're asking for \nand much more general information \ncan be found by carefully reading \nhttp://antispam.yahoo.com/ \n\nIf you're using Yahoo! Email also check \n"What can I do to prevent spam?" \nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/spam-19.html \n\nBest Wishes
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True, but spam is not illegal.\n\nBe nice if you said what it is your trying to sell us, so we could decide if we need to open your email.\nHowever don't bank on it, most of us delete email.
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You want help spamming? No thanks.\n\nIf there's a legitimate reason for you to make contact then you already have enough information to do so, otherwise don't waste other people's time and resources.
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Someone is spoofing your email to send spam.  There's not much you can do about it except mark it as spam and let it go.
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Spam is bulk mail you have identified as somethingyou don't want to receive. In other words, you might receive bulk mail that is of interest to you (never know). But if you decide it isn't and you don't want it, then it becomes spam and you can categorize it as such.
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Spam is illegal, friend.\n\nE-mail spam is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to a few or thousands (or millions) of recipients by E-mail. Perpetrators of such spam ("spammers") often harvest addresses of prospective recipients from Usenet postings or from web pages, obtain them from databases, or simply guess them by using common names and domains. By popular definition, a spam message is an unwanted email that is sent without the permission of the recipient.\n\nSending spam violates the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) of almost all Internet Service Providers, and can lead to the termination of the sender's account. Many jurisdictions, such as the United States of America, which regulates via the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, regard spamming as a crime or as an actionable tort.\n\nArticle 13 of the European Union Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC) provides that the EU member states shall take appropriate measures to ensure that unsolicited communications for the purposes of direct marketing are not allowed either without the consent of the subscribers concerned or in respect of subscribers who do not wish to receive these communications, the choice between these options to be determined by national legislation.\n\nIn Australia, the relevant legislation is the Spam Act 2003 which covers some types of e-mail and phone spam.\n\nAccessing privately owned computer resources without the owner's permission counts as illegal under computer crime statutes in most nations. Deliberate spreading of computer viruses is also illegal in the United States and elsewhere.\n\nThus, some of spammers most common behaviors are criminal quite independently of the legal status of spamming per se. Even before the advent of laws specifically banning or regulating spamming, spammers have been successfully prosecuted under computer fraud and abuse laws for wrongfully using others' computers.
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umm, im a bit confused, if you could clarify your question that would be great, thanx. Or, is this just some more advertising? isnt that spam?
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Yes, that's SPAM and it's coming from advertisers.  Same stuff you get in your email inbox, just through MySpace instead.  Flag those messages as SPAM (there's an option for this in MySpace) to report them.  And of course don't fall for any of it.  I'm sure there are some real giveaways, but you won't get them as a message or bulletin.  You'll see them as clickable ads in MySpace.
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Why, so you can spam them, too?
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A Monty Python sketch featured a restaurant in which everything contained SPAM: "......spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam; or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam". The customers do not want SPAM. The waitress insists that they have to have SPAM. There are Vikings singing about SPAM. \n\nContrary to popular belief, the Hormel Corporation has never had any connection to email spam. In fact, the initial spammers were known as the "Green Card Lawyers"; they posted the exact same offer of their services to obtain a US "green card" in every Usenet newsgroup. Repeatedly. Uning exactly the same text.  This initial delivery mechanism wasn't email, but it wasn't long before spammers branched out to it - more people, easier to do. \n\nSo, analogically, "spam" is repeated emails that you don't want but someone insists on giving you anyway.