Tuesday, May 31, 2011

I am so very SPAM'ED


I have been stalked  by the SPAMMERS.They seem to be after my life virtually in my inbox wanting me to click on those links in there desperate attempt to publicize & sell me everything & anything, that seems not at all any relevant, without any context whatsoever. Let me share in with you quite of some of the SPAM Mail's that I keep getting!
(1) Order Viagra & many other meds from $1.60/pill Online Pharmacy from Canadian Pharmacy. Mail Read's> Cover Note>What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Buy must-have pills wherever you are! High-quality meds at discount prices here!, Worldwide delivery directly to your home! No prescription is required. Make an order and get your pills instantly at xyz_pharmacy_dot_com. We provide confidential and secure purchase! Generic Viagra, Cialis, Levitra Online Pharmacy from $1.60/pill without no prescription.Click here to order many other meds.
Footnote>"That, sir, I wit not, having never been told." "How does the water usually stand in it?"
(2) Buy A New Mobile Phone(Heading) from Affordable Cellular Phone Plans ! Mail reads> Hate Your Phone? Upgrade Today! This email contains an advertisement. To opt-out, please see bottom of this email message! It may be time for a new phone! With a Image of 3 cell-phones, Compare cell phone plans and search for the best plan for the cell phone of your choice. with further  html links to compare/browse.
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The term spam is derived from the 1970 Spam sketch of the BBC television comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus".The sketch is set in a cafe where nearly every item on the menu includes Spam canned luncheon meat. As the waiter recites the Spam-filled menu, a chorus of Viking patrons drowns out all conversations with a song repeating "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam... lovely Spam! wonderful Spam!", hence "Spamming" the dialogue. The excessive amount of Spam mentioned in the sketch is a reference to the preponderance of imported canned meat products in the United Kingdom, particularly corned beef from Argentina, in the years after World War II, as the country struggled to rebuild its agricultural base. Spam captured a large slice of the British market within lower economic classes and became a byword among British children of the 1960s for low-grade fodder due to its commonality, monotonous taste and cheap price - hence the humor of the Python sketch.

In the 1980s the term was adopted to describe certain abusive users who frequented BBSs and MUDs, who would repeat "Spam" a huge number of times to scroll other users' text off the screen. In early Chat rooms services like PeopleLink and the early days of AOL, they actually flooded the screen with quotes from the Monty Python Spam sketch. With internet connections over phone lines, typically running at 1200 or even 300 bit/s, it could take an enormous amount of time for a spammy logo, drawn in ASCII art to scroll to completion on a viewer's terminal. Sending an irritating, large, meaningless block of text in this way was called spamming. This was used as a tactic by insiders of a group that wanted to drive newcomers out of the room so the usual conversation could continue. It was also used to prevent members of rival groups from chatting—for instance, Star Wars fans often invaded Star Trek chat rooms, filling the space with blocks of text until the Star Trek fans left.This act, previously called flooding or trashing, came to be known as spamming. The term was soon applied to a large amount of text broadcast by many users.

It later came to be used on Usenet to mean excessive multiple posting—the repeated posting of the same message. The unwanted message would appear in many if not all newsgroups, just as Spam appeared in nearly all the menu items in the Monty Python sketch. The first usage of this sense was by Joel Furr in the aftermath of the ARMM incident of March 31, 1993, in which a piece of experimental software released dozens of recursive messages onto the news.admin.policy newsgroup. This use had also become established—to spam Usenet was flooding newsgroups with junk messages. The word was also attributed to the flood of "Make Money Fast" messages that clogged many newsgroups during the 1990s.In 1998, the New Oxford Dictionary of English, which had previously only defined "spam" in relation to the trademarked food product, added a second definition to its entry for "spam": "Irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of newsgroups or users."

There are several popular false etymologies of the word "spam". One, promulgated by early spammers Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, is that "spamming" is what happens when one dumps a can of Spam luncheon meat into a fan blade.[citation needed] Some others are the acronym stupid pointless annoying messages."[citation needed] There was also an effort to differentiate between types of spam. That which was sent indiscriminately to any e-mail address was true spam while that which was targeted to more likely prospects, although just as unsolicited, was called Velveeta (after the cheese product). But this latter term didn't persist.

"An email box folder littered with spam messages. A person who creates electronic spam is called a spammer (plural: spammers)".

Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, television advertising and file sharing network spam. Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings. Because the barrier to entry is so low, spammers are numerous, and the volume of unsolicited mail has become very high. In the year 2011, the estimated figure for spam messages is around seven trillion. The costs, such as lost productivity and fraud, are borne by the public and by Internet service providers, which have been forced to add extra capacity to cope with the deluge. Spamming has been the subject of legislation in many jurisdictions.

Spare me from the horror of SPAM, thank god, we have a spam folder, but annoying part is that often valuable mails go to the Junk folder. - Anonymous

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