I can sell my product on the Internet by telling all the Internet users out there what a great product it is and where to contact me. Unfortunately, some marketers out there think that mass emailing is a legitimate marketing tool. Most of them don't feel that way for long. Don't be fooled. In fact, they discovered that the other internet users that they spammed got so upset about it that they just had to flame them .
Flames are email messages and follow-up articles from irate users.
Note that barely any Usenet newsgroups allow advertisements. If someone sends out hundreds of thousands of unsolicited electronic advertisements, then that person may well find hundreds of thousands of nasty messages in his or her email box the next morning. Highlands Internet attempts to protect its users from spam. We do this by banning certain domains from sending email to our mail server. Posting unwanted advertisements to Usenet newsgroups or to individuals violates standard netiquette.