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3/13/2010
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| Notable exceptions to bulk email abuse are legitimate mailing lists,
where people subscribe to receive messages pertaining to a
particular subject. These lists can be large, and they can account
for large numbers of messages being sent, but they are in no way
abuse of the email system. Quite the opposite, in fact - they are a
perfect example of the productive power of email. |
| UBE: Unsolicited Bulk Email
Email with substantially identical content sent to many recipients
who did not ask to receive it. Almost all UBE is also UCE
(see next). |
| Taken by itself, unsolicited email does not constitute abuse; not
all unsolicited email is also undesired email. For example,
receiving unsolicited email from a long-lost friend or relative is
certainly not abuse. The reason that it is defined separately is
that email abuse takes several forms, all of which begin with the
fact that the email received is unsolicited. |
| This is widely used, and confused with UBE, (see above). UCE
must be commercial in nature but does not imply massive numbers.
Several ISPs specify a threshold for unsolicited commercial email: |
| Email is a tremendously powerful communications tool, used by
millions of people in thousands of positive ways. Unfortunately,
such a powerful tool has the potential to be used in other, less
productive, ways.
Someone sending email incurs no incremental cost; sending one message
costs about the same as sending 100 messages. Some folks use this
feature of email to send messages to thousands, even millions, of
people at once. These are usually advertisements, sometimes sermons
on the senders favorite topic, sometimes pleas for financial
assistance or scams intended to defraud the unwitting. Almost all of
these messages go to people who did not ask to receive them. Also,
some people use email in denial-of-service attacks, using various
methods to flood someones emailbox with so many messages that their
email becomes unusable. These are examples of abuse -of- the email
system. |
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