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What is SPAM? |
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Spam is unsolicited e-mail on the Internet. From the sender's point-of-view,
it's a form of bulk mail, often to a list culled from subscribers to a Usenet
discussion group or obtained by companies that specialize in creating e-mail
distribution lists. To the receiver, it usually seems like junk e-mail. In general,
it's not considered good netiquette to send spam. It's generally equivalent to unsolicited
phone marketing calls except that the user pays for part of the message since
everyone shares the cost of maintaining the Internet.
Some apparently unsolicited e-mail is, in fact, e-mail people agreed to receive
when they registered with a site and checked a box agreeing to receive postings
about particular products or interests. This is known as both opt-in e-mail and
permission-based e-mail.
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