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Today's Featured Website: astrocenter.com
If astrology is one of your interests, take a look at astrocenter.com. You can get your lucky numbers, see how the heavens were at the time of your birth, and have your horoscope emailed to you daily.
http://www.astrocenter.com
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Today's Featured Computer Term: Spam
Spam is unsolicited e-mail usually advertising some product, service, business, scheme, website, etc.
From the sender's point-of-view, it's a form of bulk mail, often to a list collected from subscribers to a Usenet discussion group or obtained by companies that specialize in creating e-mail distribution lists. To the receiver, it usually seems like junk e-mail.
In general, it's not considered good netiquette to send spam. It's generally equivalent to unsolicited phone marketing calls except that the user pays for part of the message since everyone shares the cost of maintaining the Internet.
Some apparently unsolicited e-mail is, in fact, e-mail people agreed to receive when they registered with a site and checked a box agreeing to receive postings about particular products or interests. This is known as both opt-in e-mail and permission-based e-mail.
Rumor has it that the term SPAM is derived from a famous Monty Python sketch ("Well, we have Spam, tomato & Spam, egg & Spam, Egg, bacon & Spam...") that was current when spam first began arriving on the Internet.
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Today's Topic: Don't Unsubscribe from a Spammer's List!
Once you have identified a message as spam, don't believe a single word in it, least of all any unsubscription information it contains.
Spammers don't remove addresses from their list. If you try to unsubscribe, the best that can happen is nothing. More than likely, though, you'll get more spam afterwards, since you have just verified that you do indeed receive messages at that email address.
Some Internet Service Providers take active steps to insure that members don't spam other members. If you are a member of America Online, and receive spam from another AOL member, forward the email to TOSSPAM@aol.com. |
