Jamming Spam
Science · 1998
No, we're not talking about some odd new cuisine here, but rather a plague: the pro-blem of junk e-mail. Known in the Internet culture as “spam,” [HN1] junk e-mail can be mass mailings to bulletin boards, newsgroups, or lists of people. While mailings from listserves that you subscribe to can be helpful, spam mailings can be annoying. Spam mail can also use up considerable resources on the Net. At some Internet service providers, as much as 10% of their resources is devoted to handling junk e-mail.