1. Junk e-mail
1.1 Definition of spam
Spam is an unsolicited electronic message sent en masse to a large number of recipients for advertising or malicious purposes.
Spam is also known as bulk email (UBE – Unsolicited bulk email )
The terms "pourriel" or "courrier indésirable" are sometimes used, but the term "spam" is often preferred in documentation.
The term "spam" originated in a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus
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Bibliography
- (1) - HOFFMAN (P.) - Unsolicited Bulk Email : Definitions and Problems. - Internet Mail Consortium (1997). http://www.imc.org/ube-def.html
- (2) - WIKIPEDIA - Spam – Wikipedia, the...
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