What is spam?

October 24th, 2009

Spam is ubiquitous, it’s all around us and we have started to accept it. The activities of a small number of people are becoming a bigger problem for the Internet and we must stop them. Please take advantage of the information we’ve gathered to make your own experience on the Internet better.

According to wikipedia spam can be defined as follows:

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spamUsenet newsgroup spamWeb search engine spamspam in blogswiki spamonline classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spamInternet forum spamjunk fax transmissionssocial networking spam, and file sharing network spam.

Spam makes money for the people who send it. You can stop this by blocking, ignoring and reporting it!