Why Am I Getting All This Spam?

Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. "UCE" refers specifically to unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Every day, millions of people receive dozens of unsolicited commercial e-mails (UCE), known popularly as "spam." Some users see spam as a minor annoyance, while others are so overwhelmed with spam that they are forced to switch e-mail addresses. This has led many Internet users to wonder: How did these people get my e-mail address? Our analysis indicated that e-mail addresses posted on Web sites or in newsgroups attract the most spam. Web Sites - CDT received the most e-mails when an address was placed visibly on a public Web site. Spammers use software harvesting programs such as robots or spiders to record e-mail addresses listed on Web sites, including both personal Web pages and institutional (corporate or non-profit) Web pages.

In India people give advertisement in the newspapers regarding matrimonial purposes and many did compliant that they are getting response from brokers direct via email and they want to register with them its also a spam and one can complaint it.

• • USENET newsgroups -- Newsgroups can expose to spammers the e-mail address of every person who posts to the newsgroup. Newsgroup postings, on average, generated less spam than posting an e-mail address on a high-traffic web site. In our study, we discovered that most newsgroup-related spam is sent to the address in the message header, even if other e-mail addresses are included in the text of the posting.
• For the most part, companies that offered users a choice about receiving commercial e-mails respected that choice. Most of the major Web sites to which we provided e-mail addresses respected the privacy choices we made -- when a choice was made available to us.
• Some spam is generated through attacks on mail servers, methods that don't rely on the collection of e-mail addresses at all. In "brute force" attacks and "dictionary" attacks, spam programs send spam to every possible combination of letters at a domain, or to common names and words. While these attacks can be blocked, some spam is likely to get through. In many cases, spam generated by these attacks will be directed to shorter e-mail address (like bob@domain.com) before it is directed to longer addresses (like bobwilliams@domain.com).

Christian Estrosi and Jacques Peyrat

Christian Estrosi and Jacques Peyrat
Focus - Christian Estrosi, Secretary of State for Overseas invested by the UMP, share favorite. He wants the council to pull Jacques Peyrat, elected to the right.

In the fifth largest city in France, is a battle that promises to be right between Christian Estrosi, invested by the UMP, and the present Mayor Jacques Peyrat determined to retain his seat.

Estrosi, Secretary of State for Overseas is the favorite in polls widely distance rivals, the outgoing édile, ex-FN and the Socialist German Patrick. The priorities of the candidates differ little: revitalize the city's image, make housing more accessible, improve local services and the quality of the environment. The city is deeply rooted right: there has been no left-wing mayor since 1947.