All about Spam
Spam is the scourge of the Internet. Spam, as everyone knows, is the unsolicited advertisements that clog up email inboxes worldwide. Even occasional users of the Internet will know how annoying and time consuming spam can be when logging onto the Internet to quickly check your email becomes a time consuming process of sorting through offers of romantic encounters and get rich schemes.
The First Spam
An immigration law firm in Arizona is popularly described as sending the first intentional, mass commercial email firm in Arizona advertising their services over Usenet in 1994. This event is commonly referred to as the Green Card spam. Since then, the movement of spam over the Internet has exploded.
Why Spam is So Bad
One government study even put the cost of spam to organizations in the United States at $10 billion a year and growing! This number is so high because the cost is not just in lost productivity; money has to be spent to buy more hardware to deal with the influx of email messages, and software and staff assigned specifically to deal with spam. It is clear now that spam accounts for the majority of Internet traffic....