What does "spam" mean?
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Spam is any message or posting, regardless of its content, that is sent to multiple recipients who have not specifically requested the message. Spam can also be multiple postings of the same message to newsgroups or list servers that aren't related to the topic of the message. Other common terms for spam include unsolicited commercial email (UCE) and unsolicited bulk email (UBE). \n\nThe individuals who send spam are typically people who purchased or harvested a list of email addresses. They send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. \n\nAll mail originating from an ISP has an originating IP address embedded in the full address headers. This address helps to identify the sender of the email and track the individual to his or her service provider. Individuals who use that ISP's address in their spam are forging mail headers if the originating IP line is absent in the spam.
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I've always heard it stands for "sending people annoying messages", but this isn't true.  Other suggestions are "sales promotional advertising mail" or "simultaneously posted advertising message".  Actually it's based on a Monty Python skit.  In the skit, everything on the menu contained spam (just like every time you check your email you get spam).
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Probably 'spammer' doesn't mean what you think it means. Can you clarify your question?
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Yes to control spam, spammers use software which can not get around this obstacle for now! It does it to me once in a while too! No biggie\nG-Rob
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I think you mean spam.\nIt is there in the page usually on the top of the message, as Report Spam or Report Junk like this.
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did you do an advance search with google.  There is a place that you can put the ***SPAM*** into that says must contain.
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General consensus is that the term originates from a Monty Python skit.\n\nA couple are attempting to order breakfast at a restaurant where all the menu items feature spam. The woman doesn't like spam, and asks the waitress if they offer any spam free dishes. Alas - there is no escape from spam.\n\nMeanwhile a chorus of vikings at another table express their appreciation for spam by chanting "spam, spam, spam, lovely spam!"\n\nEventually any hope of meaningful communication is lost in the drone of "spam."\n\nSound Familiar?
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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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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.
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there-are-some-advertise-e-mails,sent-for-you\nand-you-dont-wanna-receive-them\nyou-simply-clic-on-the-ceckbox-then-click-spam\nyou-wont-receice-any-e-mail-from-the-sender\nand-yahoo-will-reconize-them-and-will-block-them
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Another nonsensical question from a spammer.
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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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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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scam mark it as spam.
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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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Use of the term "SPAM" was adopted as a result of the Monty Python skit in which a group of Vikings sang a chorus of  'SPAM, SPAM, SPAM . . .' in an increasing crescendo, drowning out other conversation. Hence, the analogy applied because UCE was drowning out normal discourse on the Internet."  \nAn alternate origin is from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat:  \n\nNobody wants it. \nNo one ever eats (uses) it. \nSometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.
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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.