Originally Posted By: talker
I was just wondering, what exactly is "spam"?
I mean, what does it do besides aggervate people, and ruin web sites?
And what is it's purpose?
Thanks,
Talker
Spam is the email version of all those junk mail you get in your inbox. The problem is, they don't cost the sender anything but your email operator everything. So indirectly it cost you something (since they are now less profitable and have to do something to make more money to operate, etc).
It doesn't really ruin website, just cause additional traffic and cost, and a few Nigerian, Chinese, Russian, scam that tries to steal some account information in between.