SPAM
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What is Spam ?
 Spam is
a meat-based product manufactured by Hormel
Foods Corporation and immortalized by a famous
Monty Python sketch. It has since been adopted by
the Internet community to signify the mindless
mass-posting of messages to Usenet or email,
flooding the Internet with many copies of the same
message. Spam is unwanted, invasive Internet
advertising. Spam comes to you in two ways: either
through Usenet's newsgroups, or via Email. Spam is
invasive, in that you haven't asked for it and it
gets sent to you (or posted to your newsgroup)
anyway.
Most Spam is
commercial advertising, typically for
get-rich-quick schemes, or probable scams. Spam
costs the sender very little to send -- most of
the costs are borne by the recipient or the
carriers. Spam consumes your resources.
Many Spam emails try to look like an honest
attempt to do something nice for you. Dear
friend, I noticed you are doing business on the
net and I thought you'd be interested in...
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