The History Of Spam

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  • Daniel Escasa September 7, 2012
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    D’uh!, talk about misinformation. Spam (lower-case) is unsolicited commercial email, which as the name implies is email that you get without your asking for it, promoting some product. With the popularity of social networking sites, however, spam would now include wall posts, private messages, photo-tagging, etc.

    While this video is useful for combating misinformation, it promotes some form of misinformation by misdefining spam.

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  • elhaj September 9, 2012
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    information that you don’t want to hear pushed to you ?! hmmm….
    should I start counting spam sites

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  • Mac Witty October 5, 2012
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    Do not forget the Monty Phyton Spam
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

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