E-MAIL SPAM: The Scourge of the Web -- An Exposition
Book Details
Author(s)
Joel Bowers
Publisher
Joel Bowers
ISBN / ASIN
B017SJHW42
ISBN-13
978B017SJHW40
Sales Rank
#99,999,999
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
What is it?
Where does it come from?
How can you protect yourself?
The war against e-mail spam has been around for nearly as long as the Internet itself. It has become not uncommon for individuals to receive thousands of spam messages each day, making e-mail nearly unusable. Where does this spam come from? What is being done to fight it? And, above all, how can you protect yourself?
Written by a true Internet veteran who has personally seen the spam problem develop since the late 1990’s, this short exposition gives the history of e-mail spam, the tools currently in use to manage it and the deficiencies or advantages of such tools, what works and what doesn’t.
Included are the answers to the following:
What is e-mail spam?
How much e-mail spam is there?
Why so much?
What types of e-mail spam are there?
What dangers from spam exist?
What is the history of spam?
What is being done on the legal front?
How do spammers get your e-mail address?
What are some strategies used to combat spam?
What are the limitations of these strategies?
In the end, what works?
Where does it come from?
How can you protect yourself?
The war against e-mail spam has been around for nearly as long as the Internet itself. It has become not uncommon for individuals to receive thousands of spam messages each day, making e-mail nearly unusable. Where does this spam come from? What is being done to fight it? And, above all, how can you protect yourself?
Written by a true Internet veteran who has personally seen the spam problem develop since the late 1990’s, this short exposition gives the history of e-mail spam, the tools currently in use to manage it and the deficiencies or advantages of such tools, what works and what doesn’t.
Included are the answers to the following:
What is e-mail spam?
How much e-mail spam is there?
Why so much?
What types of e-mail spam are there?
What dangers from spam exist?
What is the history of spam?
What is being done on the legal front?
How do spammers get your e-mail address?
What are some strategies used to combat spam?
What are the limitations of these strategies?
In the end, what works?
