Why is "Spam" illegal on the web and "Junk Mail" legal through the regular Mail?
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Junk mail pays the USPS billions of dollars each year, get the concept? Spam pays nothing. What if marijuana were legal, I would bet you couldn't grow it and sell it, the govt couldn't make any money.
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HTML code/tags may be use for spam purpose. Hence it may be blocked by yahoo software
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Your Bulk folder is where all the larger files usually with attachments go.This allowws you to store them there so they wont fill up your mailbox.SPAM is like junk mail.It is usally advertisements.By markin a email spam you mark it as junk mail.\nIm not sure what you mean by trash.Its usually stuff in the recycling bin?
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Most email applications have a spam folder. Most things marked as spam are automatically sent to that folder upon receipt.\n\nGo to that folder, and find the message in question. Usually there are buttons soemwhere, one of which says "not spam". Meaning, if you highlight the message and click this button, it will no longer be regarded as spam.\n\nYou should find something very similar to this for whatever application you are talking about.
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That is called spamming and no e-mail company will (or at least should) allow it. Most have user agreements that prohibit it for a good reason, it is usually junk mail noone wants.
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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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If the unwanted e-mail is something you originally signed up for, or from an online merchant (like ebay.com, circuitcity.com, etc.) they are required to have a link at the bottom of their e-mails that allows you to be removed from their mailing list. If you're referring to spam, make sure your e-mail address isn't posted anywhere public on the Internet (message boards, for example). If those places require you to have a public e-mail address listed but seem to be producing spam, you might consider creating a "junk" email address to be used just for those purposes so you don't have to have the spam coming to your regular e-mail address.
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because of poor filters from most ISPs. I suggest you get an anti spam program from McAfee or Symantec. They are way more powerful and should help eliminate your unwanted mail.
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History and technology\n\nUntil the 1990s this was the normal configuration for a mail server and was often the default on UNIX systems at installation. This was due, in part, to the traditional method in which e-mail (through and beyond the Internet) was passed from computer to computer via modems on telephone lines, often never touching the small Internet of the time. It was cheaper and simpler for e-mail to be passed from computer to computer until it reached its destination than to connect directly to the target computer (e.g. via modem) and log in to transfer the mail. Filtering and speed of e-mail delivery were not priorities. Furthermore, the small number of servers on the Internet generated a peer pressure on standards and conventions of its use. Moreover, on the government and educational servers with which the Internet was started, the transfer of commercial messages was forbidden by federal edict, as it was a government operation.\n\nNowadays, e-mail transfer by "relaying," or pass-along methods, is almost forgotten. Backbone networks and Internet switches make it cost effective and expeditious for end-user PCs or even cellphones to send mail directly to the target host, without need for relaying through a "middleman" site. The underlying communication methods of the Internet already provide end-to-end connectivity via a pass-along method.\n\n\nAbuse by spammers\n\nIn the mid-1990s, once the Internet became more of a publicly available (and moreover, commercial) service, it wasn't long until it was utilized by mass-marketers, today known in the electronic world as spammers. As spam soon became widely unpopular, especially by e-mail server administrators who had to deal with the increased unsolicited traffic, spammers discovered that they could minimize or avoid detection by re-routing their e-mail through third party e-mail servers. After this practice became widespread, the mere practice of operating an open relay e-mail server became frowned upon among a significant number of Internet server administrators and other prominent users, many of whom were veterans of the Internet's non-commercial era.\n\n\nAnti-spam efforts against open relays\n\nMany ISPs use DNSBLs (DNS-based Blocking Lists) to disallow mail from open relays. Once a mail server is detected or reported that allows third parties to send mail through them, they will be added to one or more such lists, and other e-mail servers using those lists will reject any mail coming from those sites.\n\nThis trend reduced the percentage of mail senders that were open relays from over 90% down to well under 1% over several years. This led to spammers adopting other techniques, such as the use of open proxies to send spam. Although open relays are no longer widely used to send spam, many sites continue to refuse mail traffic from them.\n\nOne consequence of the new unacceptability of open relays was an inconvenience for some end users and certain internet service providers. To allow customers to use their e-mail addresses at Internet locations other than the company's systems (such as at school or work), many mail sites explicitly allowed open relaying so that customers could read and send e-mail via the ISP from any location. Once open relay became unacceptable due to abuse (and unusable due to blocking of open relays) ISPs and other sites had to adopt new protocols to allow remote users to send mail. These include SMTP-AUTH, POP-before-SMTP, and the use of virtual private networks (VPNs).\n\nThe Can Spam Act of 2003 makes it illegal to send spam through an open relay, but makes no provision regarding sending personal e-mail through them or regarding their operation.
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Well, I can answer this without using your email.  Yahoo is known for blocking spam and it's high virus protection.  What it doesn't do is block emails from personal computers like the one you got.  And most of those emails originate from the ol' USA.  It's up to your knowledged of deciding what is fact and what is fiction.
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It usually is legal, provided you allow them to unsubscribe if it's an email listserv. Be careful though, as unsolicited email is usually dumped first thing before even reading it. Better to target a certain proven constituency such as Union members, voters in your area of interest, or people who are aware of the issues you wish to address.
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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 an ISP address in their spam are forging mail headers if the originating IP line is absent in the spam.\n\nThe best way to prevent spam is to be careful with your email address. Spammers often create mailing lists by using scanning programs to search postings to Internet bulletin boards and newsgroups. One way to prevent this is to add an "x element" to your user ID when posting a message to any bulletin board or newsgroup. For instance, instead of MemberID@yahoo.com, your email address could read MemberIDX@yahoo.com or MemberIDnospam@yahoo.com. Try to be as creative as possible with both the placement and use of special characters. That way, even if a crafty spammer uses a user ID-scanning program, you'll have a better chance to beat it. (Just remember to remove the "x element" if you answer a post with email.) \n\nAlso, don't give out your email address without knowing how it will be used. Read the terms of use and privacy statements of any site before telling them your address. If you can't find their privacy statement, don't tell them your address. \n\nIf you get spam, do NOT reply, even if the message offers to unsubscribe you. A reply simply tells the spammer your email address is active and you'll get even more junk email. Please reference the article below What should I do if I get spammed? for more information.\n\nReport spam abuse. When you forward us the email, please be sure to include the full header. Without it, we can't tell where the email came from. Every complaint that is sent to us by Yahoo! members will be investigated. However, if the email does not come from an Yahoo! member, we will forward it on to their provider so that they may take action. \n\n**************\nWhat should I do if I get spammed?\n\nFor starters, do not reply to a spam email, even if the message offers to unsubscribe you. Never respond to the spam email's instructions to reply with the word "remove." This is a ploy to get you to react to the email and will alert the sender that your email address is open and available to receive mail, which greatly increases its value. If you reply, your address may be placed on more lists, resulting in more spam. \n\nNever click on a URL or web site address listed within a spam email. This could alert the site to the validity of your email address, potentially resulting in more spam. \n\nNever sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from spam lists. Although some of these sites may be legitimate, more often than not, they are address collectors. The legitimate sites are ignored (or exploited) by the spammers, and the address collection sites are owned by spammers. In both cases, your address is recorded and valued more highly because you have just identified that your address is active. \n\nReport spam abuse. When you forward us the email, please be sure to include the full header. Without it, we can't tell where the email came from. Every complaint that is sent to us by Yahoo! members will be investigated. However, if the email does not come from an Yahoo! member, we will forward it on to their provider so that they may take action.
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Junk mail filters are certain rules set up with particular mail clients that block certain mails from falling in your inbox and instead direct them to you junk mail folders. \nsome emails may not be solicited and sent to hundreds of recipients, such mails can be categorized as junk/bulk/spam!
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SPAM THE MAIL, all spam mails are automatically blocked.\nOpen the mail and select, this is spam
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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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No, it's not illegal. They have the right to open your mail as your legal guardians.
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AOL and Yahoo will have an option for corporates to send solicitated mails to end users. The benefit of this service is that genuine mails from companies would be delivered directly to the user's mail box without passing through the mail filters for spamming. The risk in this is that if companies start sending unsolicited mails through this service, they will be blocked completely regardless of whether they paid or not.\n\nThis service is not applicable however for normal mails that are send from the personal users. In simple words, for normal users like us the e-mail remains free.\n\nFor further reading, check the following news item:\nhttp://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/05/business/email.php