Spam: the plague of junk E-mail

In a sketch on the British comedy show Monty Python´s Flying Circus, a group of Vikings in a cafe sing loudly about Spam (the luncheon meat), drowning out the conversation of other diners. On the Internet, the word spam is used to mean intrusive messages, most of them commercial, that can overwhelm discussion groups and E-mail in-boxes. If you´ve ever posted a message on Usenet, put your E-mail address on a Web page, or even subscribed to an E-mail discussion list that wasn´t configured to conceal its subscribers´ addresses, chances are good that you´ve received unsolicited bulk E-mail, the type of spam that´s generating the most controversy nowadays. Such junk E-mail is used by businesses that don´t care about their reputations, so it advertises mainly questionable medical products, get-rich-quick schemes, pornography, and the like, as well as spamming software and address lists. Once you´ve been put on a spammer´s list, it´s almost impossible to get off, and the spam is likely to multiply