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Welcome to Spam dot COM
Sun, 2008-May-11 by nmw.
How to Get Rich Quick Using Only Your Brand Name
Hormel Foods must be having a ball — they’re the top result on Google.COM for “Spam”! :D
WTF is “Spam”? How to define “Spam” & Top Spam Definitions
I think there is little agreement on the definition of “spam”. There are many definitions, but spam is quite often confused with computer viruses, ad-ware and/or spy-ware. AFAIK, spam has nothing to do with this, but people quite often think, for example that anti-virus programs are suitable to stop / block spam. This is nonsense.
Spam is a Value Judgement
On the most basic level, “Spam” is simply a value judgement — it is the label used for “junk” that I didn’t ask for and that I don’t want to see.
Spam Filter Algorithms
How does anyone know that I don’t want life insurance? Maybe I might be interested in Viagra(?), or perhaps I might want to learn about a way to make money fast? Who knows?
An interesting case happened recently at revision3.com: the entire .INFO “top level domain” (TLD) was declared as “spam”.
According to that algorithm, you are now reading spam!
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