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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. Cancelable 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 spam's 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.
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