Spam Burger

What To Do When You Get Spam

admin — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:25:05 +0000

When you go to your mailbox and find pieces of junk mail mixed in with important correspondence, you throw it out. It is a mild nuisance and you probably don’t even give it a second thought. Unfortunately, most people do the same when spam arrives in their inbox. They just delete it. While that does get rid of an individual email, more needs to be done to control what can become an overwhelming problem. Liken spam to cockroaches; see one in your cabinet and you know that you likely have an infestation that needs to be dealt with swiftly. To begin with, do not respond to the spam - ever. There are usually two ways that spam recipients make this mistake. First is the opt-out clause that appears at the bottom of the email. It appears to be a legal statement giving you the right to remove yourself from this mailing list. Unless you legitimately authorized the company to send you mail, in which case this is not spam, do not follow this link. Most often this link is simply a way for the spammers to identify your email address as valid. Now they can sell your address to other spammers and thank you for making their work easier by continuing to send you the spam you didn’t want in the first place. Read on about What To Do When You Get Spam…
Spam Blockers

What You Must Know About Spam

admin — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:55:03 +0000

What Is Spam? Spam is about consent, not about content. It doesn’t matter what the message is about: porn, ads or lottery. Only if the message is bulk and was not solicited than you can condemn it as Spam. When referring to emails, according to the NCES (National Centre for Education Statistic), “Spam refers to electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define Spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. In addition to being a nuisance, Spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Because the Internet is a public network, little can be done to prevent Spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, the use of software filters in e-mail programs can be used to remove most Spam sent through e-mail.” Read on about What You Must Know About Spam…
Spam filters

Demand for Spam? It exists

admin — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:01:02 +0000

Do you like spam? No, I’m not kidding. Everybody knows what spam is, almost everybody seems to have learned by heart simple advice like “do not click …” “do not respond…” , “do not buy…” but On March 23, 2005 Mirapoint and the Radicati Group, a consulting and market research firm, released preliminary results of their end-user survey on email hygiene. “This preliminary data is surprising and somewhat shocking to us,” said Marcel Nienhuis, market analyst at the Radicati Group. The survey shows that some end users haven’t learned the lesson and still make the same blunders. Blunder 1 — clicking on embedded links within spam (not including the unsubscribe link) — 31% of respondents have done it at least once. The most dangerous mistake. Clicking on any embedded links in spam messages helps spammers determine ‘live’ email accounts, which means more spam. What’s worse, users can pick viruses, Trojans or other malicious code–just by clicking on embedded links. It may cause various problems, including loss of confidential information–identity theft, and loss of money from bank accounts as a result. Read on about Spam Survey…
Spam filters

Learn How to Promote Your Business Without Spamming The Internet!

admin — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:01:59 +0000

Learn how you can quickly create articles that dramatically increase the number of people exposed to your ideas. Articles can make you famous, bring you traffic and fatten your wallet. Get a FREE eCourse to learn how to get an endless flood of FREE traffic… Some of the secrets you will learn in this free eCourse are: How to quickly write articles even if you are NOT a writer How to use articles for marketing you, your business and your website How to convert ordinary articles to Viral Articles What to do with articles so that webmasters find them and add them to their sites Learn more about Viral Marketing Secrets.
Spam Blockers

Keep Your Work From Home Newsletter From Being A Spam Filter Casualty

admin — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:25:54 +0000

It’s hard to get your email through to clients, friends and family with all the Spam Filtering going on these days. If you are a Home Based Business owner that sends out a newsletter regularly you’ll want to keep the following tips in mind to make certain your Work At Home Newsletter is getting through all the Spam Filters. Spam is defiantly a problem. At one time I was receiving almost 300 per day, spending a good part an hour sifting through the mass of junk was more than I could tolerate. So I too enlisted the help of a Spam Filter - Spam Arrest. I do worry about losing out on emails that are important and interesting, but this is the price we all have to pay for those Spammers that have abused and are abusing the Internet. Most Spam Filters use a Blacklist - these are clusters of email addresses and domain names that are known for sending out a lot of Spam. Recipients of Spam generate most Blacklists’. So your newsletter could fall victim to a click happy Spam identifier that clicks your email into the dreaded Blacklist vault. Read on about Newsletter Spam Filters…
Spam Blockers

Definitions of Spam on the Web:

admin — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:08:24 +0000

To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Noun: electronic “junk mail”.
www.tecrime.com/0gloss.htm

is unsolicited e-mail. The term spamming is also sometimes used by search engines to mean web sites that try to gain a higher listing by submitting hundreds of almost identical pages or by inserting hundreds of keywords within a web document.
www.smallbizonline.co.uk/glossary_of_internet_terms.php

Spam refers to electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. In addition to being a nuisance, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Because the Internet is a public network, little can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, the use of software filters in e-mail programs can be used to remove most spam sent through e-mail.
nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/secureweb/glossary.asp

Unwanted, unsolicited email
www.100best-domain-names.com/articles33.html

To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-site buffer with excessively large input data. Also, to cause a person or newsgroup to be flooded with irrelevant or inappropriate messages.
www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/compsecurity/glossary.html

(or Spamming) An inappropriate attempt to use a mailing list, or USENET or other networked communications facility as if it was a broadcast medium (which it is not) by sending the same message to a large number of people who didn’t ask for it. The term probably comes from a famous Monty Python skit which featured the word spam repeated over and over. …
www.unitedyellowpages.com/internet/terminology.html

“SPAM” mail is the practice of sending massive amounts of e-mail promotions or advertisements (and scams) to people that have not asked for it. Spam mail is controversial and there are many levels of definitions for it. Many times, spam e-mail lists are created by “harvesting” e-mail addresses from discussion boards and groups, chat rooms, IRC, and web pages. Pugmarks strictly prohibits sending spam from accounts on our servers.
www.pugmarks.com/support/glossary.htm

Spam is unsolicited e-mail on the Internet. From the sender’s point-of-view, it’s a form of bulk mail, often to a list culled 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. …
www.cesa8.k12.wi.us/media/digital_dictionary.htm

Non-Internet: Delicious “meat” in a can! Internet: Sending multiple, sometimes thousands, of unwelcome messages to a newsgroup or mailing list to promote a commercial product or Web site.
www.vikont.com/clients/glossary.htm

Unethical techniques such as cloaking, mirror sites and doorway pages to trick the search engine spiders into giving the Web page a higher ranking. Search engines will often penalize or remove an offending site from its index.
www.studio6.ca/seo_glossary.html

Unscrupulous or unethical means of inflating results. Usually deteriorates the quality of listings and often results in penalties or being banned from a search engine.
www.discountclick.com/help/seo/glossary.asp

Means unsolicited e-mail.
www.boydslaw.co.uk/glossary/gloss_itip.html

The use of mailing lists to blanket usenets or private email boxes with indiscriminate advertising messages. Very bad netiquette. Even worse, it’s bad business. The future of marketing online is about customizing products and information for individual users. Anyone who tries to use old mass market techniques in the new media environment is bound to fail.
smartbizconnection.com/advertising_glossary_index.htm

A spam message is an unsolicited, usually commercial e-mail message. It is also referred to as UCE, or unsolicited commercial e-mail.
www.kateycharles.com/glossary.html

unsolicited electronic mail; the internet version of junk mail
www.lib.monash.edu.au/vl/glossind.htm

as it applies to search engines, any attempt to submit or place deceptive information, or to “trick” the search engine into placing a page in an inaccurate position.
www.accesstoebusiness.com/glossary.htm

Electronic junk mail.
ospa.utdallas.edu/Publications/VIG/13tech.htm

Internet slang for unsolicited bulk email, primarily unsolicited commercial email (UCE). Recipients of spam often consider it an unwanted intrusion. Internet service providers (ISPs), such as America Online, consider spam to be a financial drain and an impediment to Internet access because it can clog available bandwidth. Spam has also been linked with fraudulent business schemes, chain letters, and offensive sexual and political messages. Not all bulk email is spam. …
www.leanlegal.com/dictionary/s.asp

As a noun, an irrelevant message (frequently commercial advertising) cross-posted to many public fora (eg.: Usenet groups) simultaneously. As a verb, the act of posting such spam. The term is derived, obscurely, from a popular Monty Python comedy sketch that celebrates the pleasures of consuming a certain tinned meat product.
teladesign.com/ma-thesis/glossary.html

Junk email, usually unsolicited. Top
www.smoothwall.net/support/glossary.html

To send identical and irrelevant postings to many different newsgroups or mailing lists. Usually this posting is something that has nothing to do with the particular topic of a newsgroup or of no real interest to the person on the mailing list. The name comes from a Monty Python song and is considered to be a serious violation of netiquette.
www.mfgquote.com/resources_web_terms_S.cfm

Unsolicited bulk email generally sent for commercial or political purposes, and always sent using an automated email program.
www.ciphertrust.com/resources/glossary/index.php

Originally just a canned sandwich filler product, now this term is also used to refer to the practice of blindly posting commercial messages or advertisements to a large number of unrelated and uninterested newsgroups.
webweevers.com/glossary3.htm

Faith-Web is proud to have a strict “NO-Spam” policy. Sending spam is a direct violation of Faith-Web’s Terms of Service and is cause for immediate termination without refund.
www.faith-web.com/TermsOfService.php

send unwanted or junk e-mail
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

SPAM is a canned pork product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation that has entered into folklore.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPAM

Spam by e-mail is a type of spam that involves sending identical or nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. Addresses of recipients are often harvested from Usenet postings or web pages, obtained from databases, or simply guessed by using common names and domains. By definition, spam is sent without the permission of the recipients.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(email)

Spamming is the use of any electronic communications medium to send unsolicited messages in bulk, indiscriminately — unlike sending to a selected group in normal marketing. In the popular eye, the most common form of spam is that delivered in e-mail as a form of commercial advertising. However, over the short history of electronic media, people have done things comparable to spamming for many purposes other than the commercial, and in many media other than e-mail. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)

Spam is repeated use of more than one grenade in one part of a map in the quake mod Team Fortress. It also broadly incorporates overuse of the in-game messaging system and excessive setting of detpacks (large-scale explosions).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Team_Fortress)

Spam is a popular Monty Python sketch, first broadcast in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast without SPAM from a menu which includes the processed meat product in every entree. The term spam (in electronic communication) is derived from this sketch.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python)