Spam" (the term junk mail is also used) refers to the sending of unsolicited bulk e-mails.
The word "spam" comes from the name of the lunch meat sold by the company Hormel Foods. The association of this word with abusive e-mails comes from a Monthy Python sketch (Monty Python's famous spam-loving vikings) that takes place in a viking restaurant whose speciality is Spam. In this sketch, whenever a customer orders a different dish, the other customers start to sing "spam spam spam spam spam..." in chorus so loud that the poor customer can't be heard!
so why sending spam ?
one word "advertisement"
Many spam emails contain URLs to a website or websites.The most popular spam topic is "pharmacy ads" which make up 81% of email spam messages.It's beleive that the advance fee fraud spam such as the Nigerian "419" scam may be sent by a single guy/gal from somewhere.
There are big spam companies too .
The computers in Ralsky's basement control 190 e-mail servers -- 110 located in Southfield, 50 in Dallas and 30 more in Canada, China, Russia and India. Each computer, he said, is capable of sending out 650,000 messages every hour -- more than a billion a day -- routed through overseas Internet companies Ralsky said are eager to sell him bandwidth.
How to stop spam ?
The best technology that is currently available to stop spam is spam filtering software.
More advanced filters, known as heuristic filters and Bayesian filters, try to take this simple approach quite a bit further to statistically identify spam based on word patterns or word frequency.
The word "spam" comes from the name of the lunch meat sold by the company Hormel Foods. The association of this word with abusive e-mails comes from a Monthy Python sketch (Monty Python's famous spam-loving vikings) that takes place in a viking restaurant whose speciality is Spam. In this sketch, whenever a customer orders a different dish, the other customers start to sing "spam spam spam spam spam..." in chorus so loud that the poor customer can't be heard!
so why sending spam ?
one word "advertisement"
Many spam emails contain URLs to a website or websites.The most popular spam topic is "pharmacy ads" which make up 81% of email spam messages.It's beleive that the advance fee fraud spam such as the Nigerian "419" scam may be sent by a single guy/gal from somewhere.
There are big spam companies too .
The computers in Ralsky's basement control 190 e-mail servers -- 110 located in Southfield, 50 in Dallas and 30 more in Canada, China, Russia and India. Each computer, he said, is capable of sending out 650,000 messages every hour -- more than a billion a day -- routed through overseas Internet companies Ralsky said are eager to sell him bandwidth.
How to stop spam ?
The best technology that is currently available to stop spam is spam filtering software.
More advanced filters, known as heuristic filters and Bayesian filters, try to take this simple approach quite a bit further to statistically identify spam based on word patterns or word frequency.
