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Email: What is it?, Addresses, Software, Sending, Reading, Finding Attachments | Lists: What are they?, Joining, Leaving, Finding, More Info | Netiquette: Guidelines, Mailing Lists, Spam | Supplemental Links A Note About Spam An unfortunate byproduct (no pun intended) of the Internet's popularity is spamming—the electronic equivalent to junk mail. A spam is an unsolicited email message sent to a large number of addresses (usually more than 10) at once. Spam messages may try selling you anything from golf clubs and weight-loss programs to get rich quick schemes and swamp land in Florida. Although legal (at this time), spamming is generally frowned upon by the Internet community because Internet Service providers and individual users bear most of the costs of transferring and receiving these messages. For a good discussion on spamming, visit the the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) Web site at http://www.cauce.org/. This site explains pending legislation to outlaw spam, provides commentary on commercial email, and offers tips for tracking down spammers.
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