OK, but what the heck is Spam?
Spam is the title of the method used by certain nasty folk in flooding the Internet with a vast number of copies of the same email, in an attempt to force that message on people who aren’t even remotely interested in receiving it. Most spam is just bulk commercial advertising, but there’s also an increasing amount of (highly explicit) porn spam! Spammers pay very little to send this junk. Most of the costs are paid by the hapless recipients… Junk email picks out individual users with messages advertising products or services. Spam address lists are created by raiding Internet mailing lists, trawling the internet for addresses, or by simply buying a CD containing millions of email addresses. Spam emails typically costs the user money to receive them. Most people — those with an internet account based on the volume of information received, or the amount of time online — get their mail (including all the spam), and the costs are added to the cost of the service. In addition, it costs
