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   What is spam?

   

   Mary, Dec 10th, 2001 @ 5:47am

   
   

   I personally consider viruses and holiday games to be unsolicited mail, myself. If I didn't have a pretty effective spam filter in place, I would be receiving hundreds of junk messages a day. My spam falls roughly into the following categories (how about everyone else?):
   -Questionable business/make money schemes
   -Buy my product or go to my site (includes many porn-related messages and holiday game advertisements)
   -Viruses, hoaxes and urban legends
   -Resumes

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   A really effective spam filter

   

   Tech "n Artist, Dec 10th, 2001 @ 10:18am

   
   

   A really effective spam filter would be one on the backbone that filters out mail from .cn .kr. and other third world country domains where spam is either sent from or routed through. Of course that would trash legitmate email from those places, but I am really getting fed up with these spam clowns. Maybe the honest government in the spam havens would do something about their native ISPs doing business with spammers if the country's internet access was cut off from the world.

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