What the Spam? Why the Spam is more serious on Internet than on other
media such as the fax, the telephone and the postal mail? How the
spammeurs collect the electronic addresses

Word Spam is, at the origin, a name to indicate pork-butchery of war,
left repugnant sausage that nobody wanted to eat but who was imposed
on all in England. The term is thus adapted to qualify the publicity
infects of which nobody wants but who is imposed on all through
messages massively diffused in the letter-boxes of million users of
Internet. The important concept in the Spam is not that of publicity
but that of message not requested.
We know all the phenomenon,
it resembles that which invades our letter-boxes of glazed paper that
it is necessary for us to sort and take along to the dechettery,
incredible waste since one makes us pay on the one hand this publicity
through the price of the market products and, on the other hand, the
elimination of these tons of paper through our taxes and local taxes.


The Spam is a wound

The Spam dilutes
the sometimes important messages in a continual flood of publicity. We
have hardly other choice but to pass from time to make a speed reading
of the first lines of these messages to destroy them one by one. This
repetitive spot and without end decreases the attention which we can
give to the really useful messages. How much time, as these social
policy-holders who threw their health record because it resembled the
publicity in which their letter-box abounds, have us destroys relevant
messages?

The Spam is expensive to us. In addition to
time spent to get rid of these messages which do not interest us, we
pay to receive them. Indeed, the majority of the Net surfers pay their
telephone calls and their connection Internet at the duration, they
thus take themselves charges the most significant part of it of the
generated costs. Imagine what the merchants of any hair who telephone
to sell kitchen, car to you or rough-casting of frontage do it in PCV?
For the poor countries, with the expensive communications, this
overcost is dramatic.

In the same way, the Spam
occupies of the place disc on the machines. At the time of the annual
leaves, our fax receives pages and pages of publicity and cannot
normally receive any more our other telefaxes, it goes from there in
the same way with our letter-boxes electronic when they are lodged by
a careful person receiving benefits who limits their size.


This gene, this overcost that the spammeurs thus consider
tolerable negligible was ever quantified for the community of the
universities and research. If one had been able to count the number of
Spam on RENATER for one year, one would speak at least about tens of
million not sollictés messages. If the universities can ask repair of
the damage which they undergo, it would be necessary to estimate work
on each site of the engineers who have installed for one year of
protections against the Spam, in any plusior people full-time!


Pourquoi the Spam is more serious on Internet than on other
media such as the fax, the telephone and the postal mail?


Envoyer a Spam to million people is particularly easy and not
very expensive: a rate of reading and extremely weak sale remains
profitable. Temptation is thus very large to use these methods and
there is almost no limit with the quantities of Spam. Indeed, the
transmitter of a Spam can easily send only once the contents of its
message and address it to hundreds of recipients, Internet network
taking care of the duplication of the message at the time of the
process of diffusion.

anonymity authorizes spams with
the particularly scandalous contents.

real Examples of
spams (the addresses are made up because there is risk in showing them
publicly):

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1998 07:36:19 -0500 (IS) To: xxxx@compuserve.com Subject: Young Hot
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With this example, it would
be necessary to add hundreds of others of them in particular all kinds
of swindle protected by anonymity and which exploit the credulity of
some randomly contacted people of a massive diffusion. Massive and
systematic watering for noble causes is very minority; it represents
néammoins a source of not requested messages and can also be
described him as Spam.

the Internet joins together
power, impunity and low cost, which supports the irresponsible
behaviors:
example of a message which was addressed to 450
mailing lists, is potentially several hundreds of thousands of people
(I removed the 450 addresses used).

From: Gilles xxxx

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