Spam

Spam

What exactly is spam and why we hate it? Well accordantly with Wipikedia Spamming is commonly defined as the sending of unsolicited bulk email that is, email that was not asked for (unsolicited) and received by multiple recipients (bulk). A further common definition of spam restricts it to unsolicited commercial e-mail, a definition that does not consider non-commercial solicitations such as political or religious pitches, even if unsolicited, as spam.

So far I was forced to terminate my first email account because of the huge amount of spam I was receiving daily.

They offer me services such as, how to save money, better rates on student loans, free internet, low car insurance rates, free Viagra, file my taxes for free, credit card accounts, have sex with the girl next door and even how to increase the size of my boobs!!!! . I like the size of my chest.

That's why many people opted to have a primary email account and a junk email account. This is a way to sign up for some websites that requires entering an email address.

After many years receiving tons of unsolicited email, some politics decided to stop this and started to pass laws against it.

You can find some information at http://www.cauce.org/.

In late September, California enacted a new SB 97, a new version of the 2003 spam law that was overridden by CAN SPAM before it went into effect. Both spam bills and the phishing bills were introduced by Sen. Kevin Murray, one of a handful of state legislators with an interest in online commerce.

If a commercial e-mail advertisement uses a third party domain name without permission, or has forged header information, or a misleading subject line, it's illegal in California. More interestingly, any of the recipient, the recipient ISP, or the Attorney General can sue for $1000 per message, up to a million dollars per incident

Hopefully, in the last few years there are different kinds of software available that can reduce and even eliminate spam.

I have a Yahoo email account (a new one) and I don't receive spam as much as before, I don't know if it is because I don't give my email to anyone besides friends or family; or because the new laws against it.