Vote On The Definition Of Spam

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the most popular Definition Of Spam!

I Hate Spam!
I do. Really. It annoys me to get unsolicited commercial email, largely because those sending it know perfectly well that most people do not want to receive it! They go to great lengths to get the email addresses of people who would never, ever sign up on for their mailing lists. They also send out email to addresses that might or might not be valid at well-known domains (using lists of common names and words), creating an unnecessary load on the receiving domains' incoming mail servers. They either refuse to remove addresses from their lists when requested, say they've removed them but don't, or remove the name from their list but leave it on lists they then sell to other spammers.
They go to great lengths to obscure the actual origin of their messages because they know that many recipients will complain. This is quite unlike those who send most of the junk mail I receive at my physical address, who will stop sending it if requested to do so--but then, it costs them money to send out each piece of junk mail, and it costs so little to send out bulk email that the senders don't really care how many people don't want it. And you know, I've never received a piece of sexually explicit junk mail, much less had one arrive addressed to one of the kids in our household - and spammers happily send pornographic spam out to children every day. In short, I think spammers are scum who heartily deserve to be permanently removed from the internet and denied access to all the wonderful resources it offers.

Poll Started on: 11/19/2003

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