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• n  a canned meat made largely from pork
• n  unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)
• v  send unwanted or junk e-mail

• What states call spam the feds may consider innocuous commercial e-mail.
• At the ninth hole, Obama spent about $18 on two hot dogs, two sodas, and two spam Musubis.
• Automated antispam software can only do so much, so the four e-mail giants have started to employ a new weapon: humans.

• Spam
• junk e-mail

News & Articles

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• Google Spam Algorithm For Spammy Queries: Pay Day Loans+
  As expected , Google's Matt Cutts announced last night before his chat at SMX Advanced on Twitter that they have begun rolling out a new algorithm to target spam in more spammy industries in Google. Matt Cutts wrote: We just started a new ranking update today for some spammy queries. It is not fully rolled out yet, Matt added: It's a multifaceted rollout that will be happening over the next 1-2 ...
  June 12, 2013 - Search Engine Roundtable
• Fortinet FortiMail(TM) Earns Coveted Virus Bulletin VBSpam+ Certification Based on High Spam Catch Rate and Zero False ...
  Fortinet® -- a world leader in high-performance network security -- today announced the company's FortiMail™ email security solution has earned the VBSpam+ certification from Virus Bulletin, a leading ...
  June 12, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• CAN SPAM Issues in Zoobuh V. Better Broadcasting
  Last week a Utah court issued a default judgement under CAN SPAM in Zoobuh vs. Better Broadcasting et al. I think the court's opinion is pretty good, even though some observers have reservations .
  June 11, 2013 - CircleID

Quotes

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• Leonard Kleinrock in AFP
  We started sending email back to those folks saying 'Stop it',Kleinrock said. "We sent so much email we crashed their computer. Inadvertently, the first spam email created the first denial-of-service response."
• Bob McDonnell in VNUNet.com
  This is an historic victory in the fight against online crime,said Virginia State Attorney General Bob McDonnell. "Spam clogs email inboxes, destroys productivity, defrauds citizens and threatens the online revolution that is so critical...