BC Technologies - Common Computer Mistakes

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What is SPAM???

The simplest explanation is that spam is electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup. Spam is annoying and time consuming.

There is some debate about the source of the term “spam”, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text.

Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name spam because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam:

	Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.
	No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree.
	Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.

At BC Technologies we realize how much trouble spam can be for our customers. While we don’t have the answers to solve the problems caused by spam email, the links below are intended to provide information to our customers. Each person must decide for themselves what steps to take to deal with spam on their computer system.

Opting Out – Why it doesn’t work.

Reducing the Amount of SPAM that you receive

Avoiding SPAM Scams

E-mail Providers Working to Tackle SPAM

Proposed new Legislation

SPAM News and Extras!

* Information for this web post was obtained from www.pcworld.com , www.ftc.gov and www.cauce.org