Spam (electronic) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-13

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming


00:01:23 1 Etymology
00:04:16 2 History
00:04:25 2.1 Pre-Internet
00:04:55 2.2 History
00:07:26 3 In different media
00:07:35 3.1 Email
00:09:08 3.2 Instant messaging
00:09:34 3.3 Newsgroup and forum
00:10:46 3.4 Mobile phone
00:11:46 3.5 Social networking spam
00:12:43 3.6 Social spam
00:13:11 3.7 Online game messaging
00:14:03 3.8 Blog, wiki, and guestbook
00:14:45 3.9 Spam targeting video sharing sites
00:16:43 3.10 SPIT
00:17:35 3.11 Academic search
00:18:20 3.12 Mobile apps
00:18:52 4 Noncommercial forms
00:19:29 5 Geographical origins
00:19:51 6 Trademark issues
00:20:21 7 Cost–benefit analyses
00:22:52 7.1 General costs
00:24:40 8 In crime
00:26:58 9 Political issues
00:28:28 10 Court cases
00:28:38 10.1 United States
00:33:11 10.2 United Kingdom
00:34:32 10.3 New Zealand
00:35:55 10.4 Bulgaria
00:37:25 11 Newsgroups



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Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send an unsolicited message (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site. While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam,  junk fax transmissions, social spam, spam mobile apps, television advertising and file sharing spam. It is named after Spam, a luncheon meat, by way of a Monty Python sketch about a restaurant that has Spam in every dish and where patrons annoyingly chant "Spam!" over and over again.Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, servers, infrastructures, IP ranges, and domain names, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings. The costs, such as lost productivity and fraud, are borne by the public and by Internet service providers, which have been forced to add extra capacity to cope with the volume. Spamming has been the subject of legislation in many jurisdictions.A person who creates spam is called a spammer.