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 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 subver
Spam is unsolicited e-mail, sent either as bulk mail or as personalized advertising mail. Of the 30 billion e-mails currently sent every day, more than 40 percent are classified as spam, and this figure is likely to rise in the future. For individual companies, however, the actual percentage of received spam can be much higher. Despite concerted attempts to stem the flood of advertising mail through legislation, the use of professional products such as the iQ.Suite Wall module of iQ.Suite are the most effective method of blocking spam fast and effectively.
