What is Spam? Spam is unsolicited email on the Internet. It is a
form of bulk mail from the sender’s point-of-view and often sent
to a list gathered from subscribers to a discussion group or
obtained by companies that specialize in creating email
distribution lists. In much the same way that retailers and
businesses use postal mailing lists to send potential customers
catalogs and other information, an increasing number are using
e-mail messages as a direct marketing tool. In general, it’s not
considered good internet etiquette 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. Email spoofing is the practice of
changing from field of an email so that it looks like the email
came from someone or somewhere else. Email spamming may be
combined with email spoofing, so that it is very difficult to
determine the actual originating email address of the sender.
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