So just what is email spam?

E-mail spam is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to numerous recipients by e-mail. Most definitions of spam are based on the e-mail being Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE). That is, spam is e-mail that is both unsolicited by the recipients and there are many substantively similar e-mails being sent. Spam is usually also unwanted, commercial and sent by automated means and some definitions include those aspects

How big a problem is spam email.

• 1978 - An e-mail spam is sent to 600 addresses
• 1994 - First large-scale spam sent to 6000 newsgroups, reaching millions of people.
• 2005 - (June) 30 billion per day
• 2006 - (June) 55 billion per day
• 2006 - (December) 85 billion per day
• 2007 - (February) 90 billion per day

So how can you help me stop mine.

Firstly there are many routes you can take to minimize email spam, the method i suggest is especially handy for those people who are on the move alot and want to be able to get at their email from any computer (securely) around the world, at any time. There are no costs, no servers to maintain and most importanly they use some of the latest spam filtering techniques on the planet. Webmail is the most flexible way of using email, gone are the days that you needed to be on your "home" or "business" computer to be able to use email. Webmail enables you to get to your email from any securely connected internet computer in the world. Because your email is hosted on a server, on the internet (often behind hundreds of thousands of pounds of state of the art firewall protection i might add) you also lessen the risk of downloading viruses to your computer. You are not physically pulling the emails to your local machine but browsing them on a remote system (which gets virus scanned and spam filtered almost 24/7.

The email service i am suggesting is google mail. I have been using google mail for over 3 years now and i have only had two occasions where i could not get to google mail to collect mail. The best feature about google mail is the simple to use web interface along with a great number of features that make using, sending, archiving email one of the best in the world. googles spam filtering has cut down dramatically the amount of spam i used to get on a daily basis and i find that i work more effecively.

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Where can i find out more information on spam?

The above information was culled from a great website resource which i have been using for a number of years called wikipedia. You can get to the website by clicking here or if you would like to read more information on email spam click here.