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Spam is Internet slang for unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE) or junk e-mail.
Some advertisers use spam e-mail as a way of sending their marketing
materials to large numbers of recipients. E-mail of this nature is
undesirable and shifts the cost of advertising to the recipient and the
Internet Service Provider (ISP) who will bear the costs of delivery, storage,
and processing.
The senders of this junk e-mail have become fairly unscrupulous: junk e-mail
typically includes forged or invalid headers, making a reply or complaint to
the sender difficult or impossible. Senders of junk e-mail often provide a
"remove" address, where a request can be made for removal from the list. We
recommend that you not reply to the sender, because it has
been our experience that such requests are not honored, but instead are used to
create lists of validated e-mail addresses that are then resold, resulting in
the propagation of even more junk e-mail.
Computing Services considers junk e-mail to be an unfair use of resources,
and while we cannot prevent off-campus users from sending such junk e-mail,
Computing Services does provide a program called SpamAssassin
that allows you to automatically filter most junk e-mail out of your In
Box and into a folder that you specify in your e-mail account.
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