By

Hina Patel

TCM 471

Introduction

• SPAM?• Solicited email• Unsolicited email• How spammer gets the email address• Prevention from spam• Conclusion

SPAM

- Un solicited email

- 38% email traffic is spam

- $400 per email box per year

- 15 minutes

Solicited email

- Voluntary

- Commercial message, newsletter

Unsolicited email

- Commonly known spam

- message or posting ( have not requested)

How spammer gets email address

Preexisting software

• Email collector program (web page, business site, directory of public domain information)

• News groups• Other firms

Prevention from spam

- Don’t Publish email on web

- Be conservative who you give information

- Do Not reply spam emails

- Use second email address in newsgroups

- Use spam filter

- Never buy anything advertised in spam

Conclusion

- Freedom of speech

- Ignore spamed email

- Never respond Unsolicited email

- Delete junk email same as trashing junk

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