spam

a disruptive message posted on a computer network; to send spam

Spam

S0600900 (spăm) A trademark for a canned meat product consisting primarily of chopped pork pressed into a loaf.

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S0600900 (spăm)n.1. Unsolicited email, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk email.2. A single piece of such email: "receiving dozens of spams a day" (George Johnson).tr.v. spammed, spam·ming, spams 1. To send unsolicited email to.2. To send (a message) indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups.

[From Spam (probably inspired by a comedy routine on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which the word is repeated incessantly).]

spam·mer n.

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(spæm) computing vb, spams, spamming or spammed (Computer Science) to send unsolicited electronic mail or text messages simultaneously to a number of e-mail addresses or mobile phonesn1. (Computer Science) unsolicited electronic mail or text messages sent in this way2. (Telecommunications) unsolicited electronic mail or text messages sent in this way[C20: from the repeated use of the word Spam in a popular sketch from the British television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, first broadcast in 1969] ˈspammer n

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(spæm) n (Cookery) trademark a kind of tinned luncheon meat, made largely from pork

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(spæm)
n., v. spammed, spam•ming. 1. Trademark. a canned food product consisting esp. of pork formed into a solid block. n. 2. (l.c.) a disruptive, esp. commercial message posted on a computer network or sent as e-mail. v.t. 3. (l.c.) to send spam to. v.i. 4. (l.c.) to send spam. [(definition 1) < sp (iced) + (h) am; (other definitions) 1990–95; ref. to a comedy routine on Monty Python's Flying Circus, British TV series] spam′mer, n.

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- As in e-mail, it gets its name from the Monty Python sketch in which the word is repeated many times.See also related terms for repeat.

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Past participle: spammed
Gerund: spamming

Imperative
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Present
I spam
you spam
he/she/it spams
we spam
you spam
they spam

Preterite
I spammed
you spammed
he/she/it spammed
we spammed
you spammed
they spammed

Present Continuous
I am spamming
you are spamming
he/she/it is spamming
we are spamming
you are spamming
they are spamming

Present Perfect
I have spammed
you have spammed
he/she/it has spammed
we have spammed
you have spammed
they have spammed

Past Continuous
I was spamming
you were spamming
he/she/it was spamming
we were spamming
you were spamming
they were spamming

Past Perfect
I had spammed
you had spammed
he/she/it had spammed
we had spammed
you had spammed
they had spammed

Future
I will spam
you will spam
he/she/it will spam
we will spam
you will spam
they will spam

Future Perfect
I will have spammed
you will have spammed
he/she/it will have spammed
we will have spammed
you will have spammed
they will have spammed

Future Continuous
I will be spamming
you will be spamming
he/she/it will be spamming
we will be spamming
you will be spamming
they will be spamming

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been spamming
you have been spamming
he/she/it has been spamming
we have been spamming
you have been spamming
they have been spamming

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been spamming
you will have been spamming
he/she/it will have been spamming
we will have been spamming
you will have been spamming
they will have been spamming

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been spamming
you had been spamming
he/she/it had been spamming
we had been spamming
you had been spamming
they had been spamming

Conditional
I would spam
you would spam
he/she/it would spam
we would spam
you would spam
they would spam

Past Conditional
I would have spammed
you would have spammed
he/she/it would have spammed
we would have spammed
you would have spammed
they would have spammed

spam

1. Unwanted messages, such as advertising material, received via e-mail.2. Any email message sent to a large number of people without their consent. Also known as unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or junk email.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Spam - a canned meat made largely from porktrademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a productcanned meat, tinned meat - meat preserved in a can or tin
	2.	spam - unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)junk e-mailelectronic mail, email, e-mail - (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in; "you cannot send packages by electronic mail"
Verb	1.	spam - send unwanted or junk e-mail computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structuresemail, e-mail, netmail - communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed me the good news"

Translations

垃圾邮件垃圾信息

spam

(spam) – past tense, past participle spammed – verb to send many copies of a message (= ``junk'') on the Internet. I've been spammed. 垃圾邮件，垃圾信息

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Computing slang unsolicited electronic mail or text messages

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[spam] (computer science) Unsolicited commercial e-mail.

spam

(messaging)(From Hormel's Spiced Ham, via the Monty Python"Spam" song) To post irrelevant or inappropriate messages toone or more Usenet newsgroups, mailing lists, or othermessaging system in deliberate or accidental violation ofnetiquette.

It is possible to spam a newsgroup with one well- (or ill-)planned message, e.g. asking "What do you think of abortion?"on soc.women. This can be done by cross-posting, e.g. anymessage which is crossposted to alt.rush-limbaugh andalt.politics.homosexuality will almost inevitably spam bothgroups. (Compare troll and flame bait).

Posting a message to a significant proportion of allnewsgroups is a sure way to spam Usenet and become an objectof almost universal hatred. Canter and Siegel spammed the netwith their Green card post.

If you see an article which you think is a deliberate spam, DONOT post a follow-up - doing so will only contribute to thegeneral annoyance. Send a polite message to the poster byprivate e-mail and CC it to "postmaster" at the same address.Bear in mind that the posting's origin might have been forgedor the apparent sender's account might have been used bysomeone else without his permission.

The word was coined as the winning entry in a 1937 competitionto choose a name for Hormel Foods Corporation's "spiced meat"(now officially known as "SPAM luncheon meat"). CorrespondantBob White claims the modern use of the term predates MontyPython by at least ten years. He cites an editor for theDallas Times Herald describing Public Relations as "throwing acan of spam into an electric fan just to see if any of itwould stick to the unwary passersby."

Usenet newsgroup: news:news.admin.net-abuse.

See also netiquette.

spam

(2)(A narrowing of sense 1, above) To indiscriminately sendlarge amounts of unsolicited e-mail meant to promote aproduct or service. Spam in this sense is sort of like theelectronic equivalent of junk mail sent to "Occupant".

In the 1990s, with the rise in commercial awareness of thenet, there are actually scumbags who offer spamming as a"service" to companies wishing to advertise on the net. Theydo this by mailing to collections of e-mail addresses,Usenet news, or mailing lists. Such practises have causedoutrage and aggressive reaction by many net users against theindividuals concerned.

spam

(3)(Apparently a generalisation of sense 2, above) To abuseany network service or tool by for promotional purposes.

"AltaVista is an index, not a promotional tool. Attempts tofill it with promotional material lower the value of the indexfor everyone. [...] We will disallow URL submissions fromthose who spam the index. In extreme cases, we will excludeall their pages from the index." -- Altavista.

spam

(jargon, programming)To crash a program by overrunning afixed-size buffer with excessively large input data.

See also buffer overflow, overrun screw, smash the stack.

spam

(chat, games)(A narrowing of sense 1, above) To flood anychat forum or Internet game with purposefully annoyingtext or macros. Compare Scrolling.

spam

(1) See Web spam and spam phone call.

(2) Email that is not requested. Also called "junk email," "gray mail," "unsolicited commercial email" (UCE) and "unsolicited bulk email" (UBE), the term is both a noun (the email message) and a verb (to send it). Spam is used to advertise products or to broadcast political or social commentary.

The term was supposedly coined from a Monty Python comedy sketch in the early 1970s, in which every meal in a restaurant contained SPAM, Hormel's processed meat (in England in World War II, SPAM was always available while other foods were rationed). Spam may also mean "sales promotional advertising mail" or "simultaneously posted advertising message."

A Social Plague
Like viruses, spam has become a scourge on the Internet as billions of unwanted messages are transmitted daily. Unfortunately, as an advertising medium, spam produces results (see "Why Do They Do It" below). In order to reduce spam for their customers, ISPs have added an enormous number of servers that do only filtering (see spam filter). Unsolicited phone calls are another form of spam and perhaps even more of a nuisance (see robocall).

On January 1, 2004, the CAN-SPAM act became law in the U.S., which provides severe penalties for spammers, if they can be located (see CAN-SPAM). See image spam, SPIM, SPIT, mobile phone spam, form spam, mail bomb, Joe Job, SPF, letter bomb, spamdexing, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers, munging, RBL, ROKSO, MAPS, spam relay, spam trap, botnet, rogue site and opt-in.

Why Do They Do It?

Simple math. Suppose that out of 4,000 spam messages, one person buys something, and the spammer makes USD $1. If two million spams were sent that day, the spammer made $500, and the job took a half hour to set up. A few hours per week could yield $100,000 a year. Is that enough incentive for techie teenagers? Of course, consistent revenue is not guaranteed, but there is ample motivation.

Filters Create Even More Spam
As spam filtering becomes more sophisticated, spammers send even more spam to make the same profit, but email address lists can be hijacked or purchased for very little. There is a thriving business selling lists to spammers as well as lists of compromised computers (see zombie). There are even spam service providers that will do all the work (gotta love that entrepreneurial spirit!).

Easy to Rationalize
Spammers justify their existence by citing the huge amount of physical junk mail sent via the postal system, wasting trees and other resources. They also claim advertisers have been polluting the environment with radio, TV, bus and billboard ads for decades. Nevertheless, a standard for authenticating email could eliminate most spam. Unfortunately, that can take years to implement worldwide (see email authentication).

From the Horse's Mouth

This book was written by a spammer, known only to readers as "Spammer-X." For insights into the minds of real people who spam for a living and how they do it, read "Inside the SPAM Cartel." (Syngress, 2004, ISBN 1-932266-86-0)

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Words related to Spam

noun a canned meat made largely from pork

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noun unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)

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verb send unwanted or junk e-mail

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