what is "spam"

[TryMe]

What is spam?
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 U***** spam is a single message sent to 20 or more U***** newsgroups. (Through long experience, U***** users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) U***** spam is aimed at "lurkers", people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. U***** spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts. Furthermore, U***** 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 U***** 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.

THANK ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Obey]

Why the hell would we thank you, for a copy and paste.. lol..

[TryMe]

its a joke this is a friggen spam corner wooo haha :]

[zebramanz]

lol you just spammed anyways

[TryMe]

wootage i llove spam...

[Ghost of Obama]

Stupid
Pointless
Annoying
Messages

That summed up your whole essay lol.

[TryMe]

dude whys jussofresh banned rofl...this is spam corner it all stoopid woot!

[Lukas59]

i hate spamming but i do that^^

[NpLaYa iZ V.I.P]

hi im bored lol

[NpLaYa iZ V.I.P]

ur post do not go up if u spam here right?

[Ghost of Obama]

ur post do not go up if u spam here right?

No it doesnt. Spammers corner. SPPA<MMAMAMDwd;;w'qdwldlqdl;ql;qwl;;dq;w';d
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