what is spam?

Question

what is spam? give your definition!

Answer 1

When you keep repeating yourself.

Answer 2

What spam is? My answer is “ignorance”. Ignorance of writer and reader makes the spam. Thoughtless senders don't bother to get a targetted email list, and most readers don’t try to exploit the intrinsic value of it: therefore, most of it ends up in the spam folder. Actually, thoughtful writers may make it worthy of reading.

I once counted the types of spam.

1. Sales commercial. Products mostly sold include: desire enhancing pills, watches, degree certificate. But I don’t want all of them.

2. Some scams made by the idiots: such as winning-lottery scam, heritage scam. Those stupid scams are only able to diddle more stupid guys.

But there was a time I treasured a spam. A yahoo email interested me because the sender’s name is the same as mine: mine is Baumen, his account is baumenthai. This guy was trying to sell operating system. He charged the baseline price. In the beginning, I saw it as a scam. Later I decided to buy several pieces, just for test. I paid about $150, ordering 4 pieces. One week later, I got a package. I unpacked it, found 4 pieces of operating system inside. They were officially packed, with sealed COA. I installed one, the product key was valid, it passed the verification. Then I gave my cousin a piece, he tried in his laptop, successfully installed and passed the verification too. That was really amazing. It was up-graded automatically in the internet later.

Two weeks later, my cousin sold out the rest, and got a profit of $150. He contacted the guy again, but the guy had finished the sales, he asked us to wait for several months.

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Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

very easy



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.

Answer 5

Distributing anything to multiple persons without their express consent. This includes sending email to multiple recipients, and even posting unrelated links or advertising information on a site like this.

Answer 6

When you repeat yourself in a message, but I'm not going to do that here i might get my account deleted by a bot lol

Answer 7

Luncheon meat.

Answer 8

Gross canned meat.

Or pointless add email.

Answer 9

spiced ham