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• n  someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk)

• If you can read them, you're probably not a piece of software run by a spammer.
• AOL workers add "spammer" to job description .
• With one click, the sender is identified as a China-based spammer; with another, he is banished from the system.

News & Articles

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• How We Can Get Out of the DNS DDoS Trap
  A new class of enormous DDoS attacks emerged March 26 with a DNS reflection attack by email spammer CyberBunker against anti-spam service Spamhaus. The reported traffic peak of 300Gbps was double the previous record.
  June 10, 2013 - CIO

Quotes

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• Randall Boe in InfoWorld
  If you're a spammer ...... this is not a great day for you,said Randall Boe, AOL executive vice president and general counsel. "Ultimately, we're going to locate you and sue you."
• Steve Linford in Detroit Free Press
  The FBI and US Attorney's Office couldn't have given Internet users a better New Year's present,said Steve Linford, of the Spamhaus Projectashenfelter in London, England. "Ralsky was for many years the Number One spammer plaguing millions...
• Charles Schumer in Computerworld
  If we did nothing, e-mail would be ruined in a few years, and nobody would use it,Schumer said on the Senate floor. "With this bill, Congress is saying, 'If you're a spammer, you could wind up in the slammer.'"