What Is SPAMMING?
Remember That If the people have contacted you,
you are not spamming!
Spam is flooding the Internet with
many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would
not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious
products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very
little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather
than by the sender.
There are two main types of spam, and
they have different effects on Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message
sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found
that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of
them.) Usenet spam is aimed at "lurkers", people who read newsgroups but rarely
or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the
newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts.
Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system administrators and owners to
manage the topics they accept on their systems.
Email spam targets individual users
with direct mail messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings,
stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams typically
cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many people - anyone with measured phone
service - read or receive their mail while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs
them additional money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to
transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.
One particularly nasty variant of
email spam is sending spam to mailing lists (public or private email discussion forums.)
Because many mailing lists limit activity to their subscribers, spammers will use
automated tools to subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible, so that they can grab
the lists of addresses, or use the mailing list as a direct target for their attacks.
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