Besides a meat-based product manufactured by Hormel Foods Corporation . It has been adopted by the Internet community to signify the mindless mass-posting of messages to Usenet or email, flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message. Spam is unwanted, invasive Internet advertising. Spam comes to you in two ways: either through Usenet's newsgroups, or via Email. Spam is invasive, in that you haven't asked for it and it gets sent to you (or posted to your newsgroup) anyway.
Most spam is commercial advertising, typically for get-rich-quick schemes, or probable scams. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are borne by the recipient or the carriers. Spam consumes your resources. Many spam emails try to look like an honest attempt to do something nice for you. Dear friend, I noticed you are doing business on the net and I thought you'd be interested in...

Why is spam bad ?
Some can be recognised instantly (e.g. MAKE MONEY FAST as subject..) but often you have to read the first sentence or two to be sure. If you get this dozens or hundreds of times a day (as I do) then short seconds become long minutes. It takes about 10 seconds to recognise a spam and delete it.

I've tried discussing it with one or two advocates but it boils down to something like this: "You can easily delete email. If that's too much trouble for you, use filters." The problems with these answers are that I have to actually read the stuff to be sure it's junk (unless the subject line is "MAKE MONEY FAST"), and filters simply aren't smart enough.

So what can you do ?
Boycott spammers. Do not buy their products.

Use filters. Some spam is recognisable algorithmically, e.g. by who sent it, or the subject line, e.g. 'MAKE MONEY FAST'. Note that this method could filter out valid email if you are not very careful.

Don't publish your email address more widely than necessary.
Make a free address

Set Up Disposable Addresses
Decide if you want to use two email addresses - one for personal messages and one for posting in public. Consider using a disposable email address service that creates separate email addresses that forwards to your permanent account. If one of the disposable addresses begins to receive spam, you can shut it off without affecting your permanent address.

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Most spam email comes with an invitation to 'remove' yourself from the list. Don't believe it! 

They are used to harvest new addresses.



 
Trying to stop Spam E-Mail is like trying to stop the postman from bringing you junk mail
 
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HOW SPAM HAPPENS

 
You Decide you want to buy something On-Line
 
A week or so later you start getting tons of Junk E-Mails
 
Here are some of the reasons why
 
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