What is a Spam?
Mar 3rd 2009greenbucksBlogging101 & Digital World & Web Tools
Spam. People associate this word with the canned good named Spam. But there is another meaning for spam and that would be:
Electronic messaging system abuse through sending unsolicited messages, usually in bulk form (more like send to all) regardless if the recipients want to get these messages or not. In other words, these are sent indiscriminately.
E-mail spam is the one that is sent regularly which is mostly about products or services being offered. There are however different forms of spam and these will show as instant messaging spam or SPIM which targets instant messaging services, online classified ads, wiki spam and internet forum spam.
Blogs have spams too, in the form of comments which is also called spamdexing. There are also those that are called splogs.
These blog spams are done as comments to posts but contain not valid comments but advertisement of products specifically targeting prescription medicines or lewd videos/sites. in one of my blogs, I have over a hundred thousand blocked spamdexing comments, to think I just had the spam blocker (yes, you need to install one in your blog) installed not so long ago.
Someone who regularly visits a blog and does not comment is a LURKER and NOT a SPAMMER. Being a lurker is not bad actually, especially when one is having fun getting a nosebleed understanding the message through so many grammatical errors reading the entries but has no significant point of view to share.
Anyway…
Even those who don’t go online get these spam messages through mobile phone messaging spam which a lot of people are familiar with. And sometimes these even eat up the pre-paid credits of some mobile phone services.
Spams, by the way, are 30 years old. Yes, these started way back in May 1978. Oh, it will be turning 31 this year.
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