BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Spam
- unsolicited bulk e-mail, usually sent for commercial purposes. Spam is used by some companies as a cheap form of advertising, although it is generally considered offensive and unwelcome by the Internet community. Sending spam is regarded as unethical because the cost is paid by the recipient's site or server, not the sender's. Various Internet bodies campaign against spam and those individuals or organizations accused of spamming. The term may originate from a sketch in the U.K. comedy program Monty Python in which customers at a "greasy spoon" café are served the canned meat Spam with everything, regardless of whether it was part of their order, or may simply derive from the preexisting use of the word to represent something, like the rations available to soldiers in World War II, that is plentiful and unappetizing.
- unsolicited bulk e-mail, usually sent for commercial purposes. Spam is used by some companies as a cheap form of advertising, although it is generally considered offensive and unwelcome by the Internet community. Sending spam is regarded as unethical because the cost is paid by the recipient's site or server, not the sender's. Various Internet bodies campaign against spam and those individuals or organizations accused of spamming. The term may originate from a sketch in the U.K. comedy program Monty Python in which customers at a "greasy spoon" café are served the canned meat Spam with everything, regardless of whether it was part of their order, or may simply derive from the preexisting use of the word to represent something, like the rations available to soldiers in World War II, that is plentiful and unappetizing.
- see Direct Mail
Wiktionary Definition for: Spam
- (''uncountable noun'') A collection of unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
- Ex: ''I get far too much '''spam'''.''
- (''countable noun'') An unsolicited electronic message sent in bulk, e.g. by email or newsgroups.
- Ex: ''I received 58 '''spams''' yesterday.''
- (''proper noun'') A canned meat product made of 100 % pure pork and ham. SPAM luncheon meat, a product first produced by Hormel Foods in 1937 in Austin, Minn. See SPAM.
- intransitive : To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
- transitive : To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
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Additional Resources
- Spam Accounts for up to 95% of All Email
- One of my favorite bloggers from Ars Technica has uncovered another stat that will shock and surprise. Jacqui Cheng cites Barracuda Networks' recent analysis of 50,000 email customers. Its findings show that 90-95% of all email is spam (and, no, it's not the kind that goes good with eggs...
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Spammers Newest Tactic: YouTube Video Spam
- Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have recorded a mass mailing of spam emails containing a link to a video advertisement on YouTube . Although in the past, spammers have have attempted to lure people into clicking links by claiming the link would display a YouTube video, this...
- News items 2009-10-09
- How Do You Fight Spam?
- Spam, the scourge of inboxes everywhere. Until recently, I used SpamArrest -- a server-side challenge/response system that worked quite well for the most part -- to keep it out of my inbox. But I'm a cheapskate (no, seriously, I have a whole blog to prove it), so I decided to try some...
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- MySpace's Big Spam Win: Will It Be a Deterrent?
- MySpace won statutory damages of more than $230 million against spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines, but the big question is whether this rulingâ€"delivered in the Federal District Court in Los Angelesâ€"will act as a deterrent. To be sure, MySpace’s win see court order PDF has some...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Cleaning up e-mail: an end to spam?
- THANKS TO THE ingenious CAN-SPAM Act passed by Congress last year, junk e-mail in the United States has been drastically reduced, rendering many inboxes completely spam free. Just kidding. Despite the new law, spam continues to increase, and recent studies by makers of anti-spam software found that less than...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Spam, Spam, Spam and More Spam | BTalk Australia
- (Episode 265; 13min 08) The latest State of Spam report from Symantec shows that spam continues to account for about 90% of all email traffic. Robert Pregnall from Symantec says its important that you aren't part of the low-hanging fruit. These days a spam message could even...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Spam targets financial transfers
- Experts have spotted a new spam attack that targets a financial transfer system handling trillions of dollars in transactions annually; it turns out it's yet another case of fake emails. The spam messages pretend to come from the National Automated Clearing House Association NACHA, a U.S. nonprofit association...
- News items 2009-11-15
- Understanding PR Spam
- A huge part of publicity success is knowing precisely who your target journalists are, and anticipating what they're going to write about next. These are such obvious components to the process that it's generally pretty perplexing why so many PR folks spam media targets with irrelevant email pitches and...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Internet Services Providers and Enterprise Messaging Industry Rally To Bright Light's Anti-Spam Solution; Bright Mail Rapidly Emerges as De Facto Internet Standard for Combating Spam
- SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--March 29, 1999--Only four months after shipping its first integrated anti-spam solution for sendmail 8.9 open-source messaging servers, Bright Light Technologies' Bright MailTM Anti-Spam Service is emerging as the service-of-choice for defeating spam over corporate networks and the Internet. In a significant endorsement of its anti-spam service and...
- Research articles 1999-03-29
- Commtouch Reports May Spam Trends: More and More Spam Originates Outside the United States; Most Spam is Sent From Korea and the EU
- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- CommtouchR (Nasdaq:CTCHC), the developer of ground breaking RPDTM technology for real time anti-spam and zero-hour virus protection, today announced spam trends and statistics for the month of May. The announcement was based on data from the Commtouch Spam Detection Center, which analyzed hundreds of millions of...
- Research articles 2005-06-14
- Barracuda Spam Firewall Outbound Rate Control System Stops Spam Before It is Sent; Barracuda Networks Rate Control System Protects Organizations and ISPs from Inadvertently Sending Spam and Keeps Legitimate Emails from Being Blocked
- CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Barracuda Networks, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions, today announced enhancements to the Barracuda Spam Firewall - Outbound Mode Rate Control System, which prevents spammers and phishers from using protected networks to send spam and viruses. One of ten layers of defense included in...
- Research articles 2005-05-23
- Barracuda Networks Launches Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 for Large Enterprises; New Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 Raises the Bar for Spam and Virus Filtering for Large Organizations
- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Barracuda Networks, Inc., the leading provider of spam firewall solutions, today announced the Barracuda Spam Firewall 900, its second carrier-class spam appliance available for large organizations. The Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 offers the largest quarantine storage capacity and the fastest throughput available for an email gateway...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- Commtouch Reports August Spam Trends: Spammers Seek to Profit From Katrina; Using Katrina to Attract Recipients' Interest and Trick Anti-Spam Filters, Spammers Send 36% More Spam in August 2005 Than in August 2004
- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- CommtouchR (Nasdaq:CTCH), the developer of ground breaking Recurrent Pattern Detection RPDTM technology for real time anti-spam and zero-hour virus protection, today announced spam trends and statistics for the month of August. The announcement was based on data from the Commtouch Spam Detection Center, which analyzed over...
- Research articles 2005-09-14
- How to Spam Check Your Press Releases
- Here's a tool you need to add to your PR toolkit ASAP: a free automatic content-checker that you can use to test your outgoing email before you send it to see if it is likely to get caught in a spam filter. This tool is essential if...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- How to Keep Spam Off Your Cell Phone
- Tired of telemarketing calls on your cell phone? Want to keep spam out of your mobile inbox? PC World shows you how in Put an End to Cell Phone Spam. Here's an excerpt from the section on blocking sales calls: If you do give out a mobile number, be...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- How to Keep Spam Off Your Cell Phone
- How to Keep Spam Off Your Cell PhoneRE: How to Keep Spam Off Your Cell PhoneGreat question. You can read all about it here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/152169/use_gmail_to_fight_spam.htmlRE: How to Keep Spam Off Your Cell PhoneHow do you use gmail to filter spam from your primary domain?RE: How to Keep Spam Off Your...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada targets unwanted email
- OTTAWA AFP ? Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide. The Spam Task Force, not a comedy sketch, but a partnership between government, the computer industry and consumer groups will implement a six-point plan to...
- Research articles 2004-05-11
- Wave of optimism as ITU WSIS meeting on countering spam closes; Priority actions identified to curb spam.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 July 2004-ITU: Wave of optimism as ITU WSIS meeting on countering spam closes; Priority actions identified to curb spamC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07092004 Geneva - Participants at the ITU WSIS thematic meeting on countering spam which concluded its work...
- Research articles 2004-07-12
- Spam by the numbers
- 10,000 Average number of daily spam messages forwarded to the FCC in 2001 47,000 Average number of daily spam messages forwarded to the FCC in 2002 130,000 Average number of daily spam messages forwarded to the FCC in 2003 41 percent Percentage growth...
- Research articles 2003-07-28
- Malicious Spam Triples in One Week, According to Marshal's TRACE Team
- The volume of malicious spam in circulation has more than tripled in one week, according to new research from Marshal's TRACE team. This sharp increase can be largely attributed to the Srizbi botnet, which is currently responsible for 46 percent of all spam sent. Malicious spam ...
- Research articles 2008-06-25
