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120 billion e-mails per day; compromising the upgrades of over 90% of the world’s e-mails- the naughty spammers have a reason to celebrate. Malicious spam continues to flourish in the Internet and now celebrates its 30th Birthday which is perhaps not a good cause to celebrate.
Spam was an idea originated by Gary Thurek in 1978 to send an unsolicited advertisement to 393 Arpanet users. All these 393 e mail addresses were typed by hand!
Now, Internet is flooded with spam messages. Spammers send many copies of the same message. People are actually forced to receive these spam messages who would not otherwise choose to receive them.
Most of the spam is commercial advertising for dubious products. Spammers don’t have to spend much to send these messages. In fact, these spam messages are paid for by the recipients.
There are basically two types of spam- the Usenet spam and E mail spam. Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. Usenet spam is aimed at people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post reveal their addresses. A Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts.
On the other hand, E mail spam is aimed at individual users with direct mail messages. An E mail spam list is created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists or searching the Web for addresses. They usually cost the users’ money to receive the spam.
These nasty spam messages are annoying thousands of Internet users. We don’t know when these spam mails will be entirely eliminated from the Internet. Any ways, happy birthday Spam!
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