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What is Spam?
Spam is unwanted advertising email invading your inbox. It promotes things
like adult websites,
amazing mortgage deals, and get-rich-quick schemes. Almost everyone with
an email account has
been “spammed” and most people agree it’s annoying and time-wasting
to deal with. Spam is one of
those hard to define but “you know it when you see it” phenomena.
However there are some essential
characteristics of all spam:
• It is unsolicited i.e. sent without the recipient’s permission
• It promotes products or services for sale.
Given this, spam is often referred to in a formal sense as unsolicited commercial
email (UCE). In
everyday use spam can also refer to any unwanted email such as chain letters
from known senders or
commercial email from retailers you have dealt with previously. In this paper
we shall use the term
spam to mean UCE.
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