What exactly is Spamming - I've seen websites that say they are a Spam complaint site & dont condone spamming?

Question

What exactly is it - I've heard of Spam Mail in Emails -but I just thought that was junk mail - so what is Spamming?? How do people Spam Websites & why ?

Sorry I know I'm Internet Challenged a bit - but better ask now than never -LOL

Answer 1

Since you already know what a spam e-mail is, I won't insult your intelligence by answering that part of your question.



As far as spamming a website, here's an example. You ask a question right here on Yahoo Answers. If you get an answer that is a website, usually for a YouTube video that is a band trying to make it, etc, you've been spammed.



It happened to me. I hope you get honest-to-good real answers to your questions!

Answer 2

Spam can be considered any posts, messages, or emails that are unsolicited or unwanted. Spamming is the act of posting it. people post/send messages to a website advertising another site or business (usually a scam) in an effort to get more hits on that site.

Answer 3

Spam is unsolicited commercial e-mail. It is sent, usually in bulk, through "open-relays" to millions of persons. Spam is cost-shifted advertising. It takes a toll on Internet users' time, their resources, and the resources of Internet Service Providers (ISP). Most recently, spammers have begun to send advertisements via text message to cell phones.

Answer 4

Hi I may not have much knowledge to these questions but I think spamming is a protection guard against any unwanted websites for example porn. It's a protection against viruses on the net.

Hope this helps!!

Answer 5

spamming-----unsolicited e mail

to received unsolicited e mail from

to send unsolicited e mail to,often of commercial

nature i.e. junk e mail

occurs without the permission of the receiver

e mail spam --- is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to thousand or even millions of recipeints by e mail. perpetrators or spammersoften harvest addresses of prospective recipients from usenet postings or from web pages, obtain them from databases, or simply guess them by using common names or domains! as the recipients directly bears the costs of delivery, storage, and processing ,one could regard spam as the electonic equivalent of " postage -due" junk mail . spammers frequently engage in deliberate fraud. often use false names and addresses, phone numbers. spammers steal and use stolen credit cards numbers to pay these accounts. spammers use networks of virus-infected PCs or (zombies) to send their spam. china is the foremost hostings with 78.58% of all websites referenced within spam.

Answer 6

quite? simply by fact Y!A retains spamming mine with e-mails approximately assembly singles over 80 in Lithuania. BQ: generally, different purchasers' e-mails get thrown into my unsolicited mail folder yet i do no longer many times get quite unsolicited mail mail.