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What is Spam?

According to Wikipedia, SPAM uses are as follows:

“Backronyms

SPAM, Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages, used sometimes in chatboxes

Uses referring to repetition

  • Spam (electronic), unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages. There are many types of electronic spam, including
    • E-mail spam, unsolicited e-mail
    • Mobile phone spam, unsolicited text messages
    • Forum spam, posting advertisements or useless posts on a forum
    • Spamdexing, manipulating a search engine to create the illusion of popularity for webpages
    • Spam in blogs, posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks
    • Newsgroup spam, advertisements and forgery on newsgroups
    • Messaging spam (”SPIM”), use of instant messenger services for advertisement or even extortion
  • Spam (computer game), to repeatedly use one weapon or tactic. This term is based on the technological meaning of “undesired bulk electronic message”
  • Flyposting (”street spam”), illegal blanket advertising in public places”
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