Spam

Date: 15^th Dicember 2009 Group 70 B            Mikel Bermejo Gómez

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems, for example with the e-mails, or the social networks, to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. The term is mostly applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, and spam in blogs, online classified ads spam, and mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, and file sharing network spam.

Spamming economically viable because advertisers can make their publicity totally free and it is difficult to stop senders accountable for their mass mailings. The costs, such as lost productivity and fraud, are borne by the people and by Internet service distributors, which have been forced to add extra capacity to cope with the deluge.

Spammer is the correct word for people who create this kind of publicity.