What Is Spam?
Author: Jene Pedder
Author: Jene Pedder
So the question what is spam or spamming as its also know as,
there are so many different definitions on what spam actually is
so I will list a fee so you can make your own mind up:
· Junk email which is usually unsolicited – sending a mass of
emails from commercial sites to people who haven't ask for the
email and also emails sent to annoy or harass the receiver which
may include crashing their computer.
· Unsolicited email – advertising a product and or service,
which will overload the receiver's computer which will slow the
computer down.
· The using of mailing lists – to blanket online groups,
private email boxes with indiscrimination, unsolicited messages
of a promotional nature.
· An activity – that tricks search engines into giving their
site a higher ranking on searches via hiding keywords and
submitting webpage's daily to the search engine.
· Ian an inappropriate attempt to – send emails and use emails
to send the same email message to numerous people who didn't ask
for the information as well as other network communications.
Spam emails has got worse over the last few years in 2001 only
8% of emails sent worldwide were spam at the end of this year
2007 50% of all emails sent will be spam. If you have a company
website this is likely to get worse, as spam emails will come
through your business email address.
Spam cannot only cause you the inconvenience in having to
delete them all, it can crash your computer, overload your email
account stopping you from receiving and sending other emails but
also time and money lost. Money can be lost by stopping you from
receiving important emails and also by the time colleagues spend
deleting and filtering spam emails, which will stop them from
doing their normal job. Worms and viruses may also be included
in spam emails, which can destroy data and your system
information
There are ways of filtering spam emails with the use of anti
spam software and spam filtering software. There are free
packages available on the Internet to help you protect your home
computer and your email accounts but if you are a business
looking for anti spam and spam filtering software your best bet
is to look into the many companies selling specially designed
packages for businesses.
There isn't a complete cure for spam but anti spam and
spam-filtering software can help your spam emails reduce but you
will always get a few that filter through to your inbox. There
are other ways to minimize your spam including: -
· Don't use your personal email account when you sign up to
newsgroups, forums, mailing lists etc.
· Use web filters to filter out your spam.
· Don't click on any links that are in spam emails, don't give
them any of your personal information and don't buy anything
from them.
· If you have a website remove your email address from the
website, this can be done by using a form to do with validation.
About The Author: Jene is the Webmaster of MySpamBin who
specialize in http://www.myspambin.com/ Spam Filtering Software.
there are so many different definitions on what spam actually is
so I will list a fee so you can make your own mind up:
· Junk email which is usually unsolicited – sending a mass of
emails from commercial sites to people who haven't ask for the
email and also emails sent to annoy or harass the receiver which
may include crashing their computer.
· Unsolicited email – advertising a product and or service,
which will overload the receiver's computer which will slow the
computer down.
· The using of mailing lists – to blanket online groups,
private email boxes with indiscrimination, unsolicited messages
of a promotional nature.
· An activity – that tricks search engines into giving their
site a higher ranking on searches via hiding keywords and
submitting webpage's daily to the search engine.
· Ian an inappropriate attempt to – send emails and use emails
to send the same email message to numerous people who didn't ask
for the information as well as other network communications.
Spam emails has got worse over the last few years in 2001 only
8% of emails sent worldwide were spam at the end of this year
2007 50% of all emails sent will be spam. If you have a company
website this is likely to get worse, as spam emails will come
through your business email address.
Spam cannot only cause you the inconvenience in having to
delete them all, it can crash your computer, overload your email
account stopping you from receiving and sending other emails but
also time and money lost. Money can be lost by stopping you from
receiving important emails and also by the time colleagues spend
deleting and filtering spam emails, which will stop them from
doing their normal job. Worms and viruses may also be included
in spam emails, which can destroy data and your system
information
There are ways of filtering spam emails with the use of anti
spam software and spam filtering software. There are free
packages available on the Internet to help you protect your home
computer and your email accounts but if you are a business
looking for anti spam and spam filtering software your best bet
is to look into the many companies selling specially designed
packages for businesses.
There isn't a complete cure for spam but anti spam and
spam-filtering software can help your spam emails reduce but you
will always get a few that filter through to your inbox. There
are other ways to minimize your spam including: -
· Don't use your personal email account when you sign up to
newsgroups, forums, mailing lists etc.
· Use web filters to filter out your spam.
· Don't click on any links that are in spam emails, don't give
them any of your personal information and don't buy anything
from them.
· If you have a website remove your email address from the
website, this can be done by using a form to do with validation.
About The Author: Jene is the Webmaster of MySpamBin who
specialize in http://www.myspambin.com/ Spam Filtering Software.
