However, it has now been more than four years since our first sightings of massive Internet abuse, and in that time, we have learned a number of things about it and how to deal with it. Unfortunately, some of these methods are themselves problematic. A human can easily determine the correct address, but software designed to read email addresses will read the address incorrectly. Some users who resist publication of their email addresses no longer participate in any sort of public online message exchange, such as Usenet and mailing lists. Others have begun to munge their addresses to prevent spammers from harvesting them for use in their lists of spam targets.
Terrorism is the practice of using fear to accomplish an objective, probably one that is unpopular.
Historically, an overwhelming theme of the Internet has been one of respect for the resource, as well as the time and resources of other members of the Internet community. Spammers wantonly disregard the Internet's unique culture, using a number of arguments in an attempt to justify their own selfish, disrespectful behavior. No matter how you look at it, the issue of spam takes the time, money, and resources of millions of Internet users and administrators, without their consent, and even against their will. This is in every way contrary to the Internet's culture. A terrorist can be motivated by a number of things.