spam

The term "spam" originally referred only to unsolicited email, but has broadened in usage to include any kind of unsolicited electronic advertisement or communication (e.g. phone solicitations are often described as "spam calls"; advertising links posted on a wiki page is "wikispam"; spam posted in the comments of a blog is "blogspam" or "comment spam").

Reference

• Wikipedia

Related Articles

• fighting spam posts in MediaWiki
• telemarketing (phone spam)
• fighting email spam

Resources

• Abusive Hosts Blocking Service
• Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts file: a way to blacklist ad servers using network configuration

Articles

• 2007-02-17 few things tick me off like spam by "False Data"

News

• 2006-09-15 Anti-spam group to keep company on list by Carla K. Johnson (AP)
• 2006-09-07 Appeals Court Judges Sick Of Spam Too; Uphold Spammer Conviction
• 2006-02-23 Malware Honeypot Projects Merge (maybe this should end up in an article on malware)
• 2006-02-19 Invasion of the Computer Snatchers (slashdot)
• 2006-01-24 'Zombie master' pleads guilty to PC hijacking
• 2004-11-18 Bill Gates 'most spammed person': "At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in January, Mr Gates predicted that technology would make spam "a thing of the past" within two years." Still waiting on that one...