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Author :: Lewis Leake  |
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| Article Title :: What Is Spam? |
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If you've been around the interenet any length of time then you
probably know what spam is. However, if you're new to the
internet you might be asking yourself the question "What is
Spam?"
The best place to begin would be to explain to you exactly what
spam mail is. Spam is basically just unsolicited commercial
emails that companies send to your inbox.
There are a lot of ways these companies get your email address.
You may have signed up for a newsletter or promotions with one
of them, or you may have ordered a product or service that
requires registration from a website first.
It is common for companies to share their mailing lists with
their affiliate companies. It’s one of the benefits to having
affiliations. The only problem is that most companies hide this
knowledge in their “terms and agreements” of their websites.
They count on the fact that most people do not read all the way
through them. Of course since it is mentioned somewhere in their
website, it is perfectly legal.
The average person can expect to receive anywhere from ten to
twenty spam’s a day in their inbox; depending on how many promos
and registrations they fill out. Once a person accepts or opens
an unsolicited email, they become plagued by receiving six more
in its place. It is a vicious cycle.
As the internet has reached its peak popularity during the past
couple of years, so have companies followed suit and expanded
their abilities to advertise. The biggest problem is that they
don’t know when to stop advertising.
The best place to begin with this manual is to give you a list
of some of the things that you may do that will leave your inbox
vulnerable to receiving spam.
• Filling out a registration for an online newsletter is a
common way for companies to use your inbox to advertise.
• Registering your inbox for promos and contests.
• When installing new software it is common to register your
email address for updates, but it is also leaving yourself open
to spam.
• Signing yourself up for just about anything online is leaving
yourself open to receiving spam.
• Reviewing books online generally requires that you provide
your email address.
One Common factor in all of these things listed is that you have
to volunteer your email address to a company before it can be
used. Of course, there are ways for a company to get your email
address without you having to give it to them directly.
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