Chapter 21: Email spam

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What I expect to learn?

I expect to learn about email spam.

Quote:

“Ethical analysis can be useful in analyzing emerging strategies of email senders and email recipients.”

Review:

Spam has rapidly spread to many forms of electronic communication People attacking spam are legion and vocal. But it would be a mistake to think that “spam” can be defined simply as “unwanted email.” An email that is from an unsolicited, commercial, bulk emailing, often considered spam, may provide a receiver with just the information that he/she does want. The relationship may be personal, professional, or commercial; the “relationship” might be based on a shared interest or on a desire to make a transaction; and the relationship can be positive or negative. If a sender uses an email to attempt to defraud any recipient or recipients for the sender’s selfish gain, the sender is blameworthy. Many “antispam” measures seek to remove from spam recipients the burden of seeing and manually removing spam emails. Ethical analysis can be useful in analyzing emerging strategies of email senders and email recipients.

What I Learned?

• Email spam

Integrative Question:

1. What is spam?
2. what is to be consider on email spam?
3. What is email?
4. What is the relationship of sender and reader?
5. How do we know if it was a spam or not?
6. What can anti-spam help?
7. What can be help in analyzing spam?

Discussion:

1. What is spam?

Spam has rapidly spread to manyforms of electronic communication

1. what is to be consider on email spam?

   People attacking spam are legion and vocal. But it would be a mistake to think that “spam” can be defined simply as “unwanted email.”

1. What is email?

An email that is from an unsolicited, commercial, bulk emailing, often considered spam, may provide a receiver with just the information that he/she does want.

1. What is the relationship of sender and reader?

The relationship may be  personal, professional, or commercial; the “relationship” might be based on a shared interest or on a desire to make a transaction; and the relationship can be positive or negative.

1. How do we know if it was a spam or not?

If a sender uses an email to attempt to defraud any recipient or recipients for the sender.s selfish gain, the sender is blameworthy.

1. What can anti-spam help?

Many “antispam” measures seek to remove from spam recipients the burden of seeing and manually removing spam emails.

1. What can be help in analyzing spam?

Ethical analysis can be useful in analyzing emerging strategies of email senders and email recipients.