What name is given to unsolicited or undesired electronic messages?
Gary Robinson Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited, undesired bulk messages. SpamBayes assigned probability scores to both "spam" and "ham" (useful emails) to guess intelligently whether an incoming email was spam; the scoring system enabled the program to return a value of "unsure" if both the "spam" and "ham" scores were high. Robinson's method was used in other anti-spam projects such as SpamAssassin. Robinson commented in "Linux Journal" on how fighting spam was a collaborative effort: In 1996, Robinson patented a method to help marketers focus their online advertisements to consumers. He explained: In 2010, Robinson was
Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002 product or service, has the right to use it for commercial purposes provided the customers have a prior opportunity to reject such communication where it was initially collected and subsequently. Member States have the obligation to ensure that unsolicited communication will be prohibited, except in circumstances given in Article 13. Two categories of emails (or communication in general) will also be excluded from the scope of the prohibition. The first is the exception for existing customer relationships and the second for marketing of similar products and services. The sending of unsolicited text messages, either in the form of SMS messages,