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Spam is no vegetable!

By: Shah N. Khan

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Spammers are like spiders coming from the World Wide Web and


crawling in and on your mind, head, your body and spine. Many


dictionaries do not give you the meaning of Spam. One dictionery


defines it a a vegetable. The spell check in many word


processing software would not give you its spelling!





Our unabashed dictionary defines Spam as pinching the bottom of


a girl in a crowded street.





On a crowded elevator of a sky-scrapper of a computer giant, a


shapely lass was pinched at her bottom. She turned back and


growled, " Who is spamming me?" The handsome young man behind


her looked at her in face and said, "Pardon me. I thought it was


a safe address". "Never mind, I will opt in for your mail!" The


girl replied smilingly as she was impressed with his looks and


mannerism.





As you know spam (noun) means an unsolicited e-mail message sent


to many recipients at one time, or a news article posted


simultaneously to many newsgroups or lists.





Spam is a sort of junk mail. Generally the contents of a Spam


message or article are not relevant to the topic of the group or


the interests of the recipient.





Spam is an abuse of the Internet in order to distribute a


commercial or religious or political message or publicity


material to a huge number





of people at minimal cost.





Spambot means a program or device that automatically posts large


amounts of repetitive or inappropriate material to newsgroups on


the Internet.





Internet users are experiencing an increase in spamming! As


thousands of new web sites are created every year and more


businesses flocking to the Internet, spamming either due to


ignorance of Internet culture and rules or a willful disregard


for them, has grown.





Quite a few big companies also utilize Spam techniques. Many


people abhor such intrusion on their time and privacy but many


people like to get mail. The popularity of email lists is


growing. Many new list servers have come.





How can you deal with Spam?





Simply hit reply button and write stop in Subject. Most people


will honor your advice except the mischief-makers Unless you


find that the Spam is due to ignorance of internet rules, do not


waste time in writing to advise that you find spamming to be


invasive and annoying, and urge them to stop the practice


immediately However, many spammers hide their real email address


and many such replies bounce.





In such cases, you can write to the postmaster of the spammer's


Internet





service provider, complaining that they are disturbing your


privacy. This is not always effective, as unscrupulous spammers


have found ways to make their messages appear to originate from


another provider entirely. But if your message does get through,


the Internet service provider may cancel the spammer's account.





Laws are rapidly changing. The business organizations and


individuals can get into trouble if they display total disregard


to the rules regarding email broadcast. In Europe and US the


laws and rules are enforced strictly and many people lose their


ISP for spamming.


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