Spam Facts
What is Spam?
The word "Spam", in Email terminology, means Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE").
- Unsolicited Email: the recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent.
- Bulk Email: the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having essentially identical content.
A message is Spam only if it is both Unsolicited and Bulk.
Spam is an issue about consent, not content.
Whether the UBE message is an advertisment, a scam, obscene, an offer of a free lunch, the content is irrelevant - if the electronic message was sent unsolicited and in bulk then the message is spam.
The sending of Unsolicited Bulk Email is banned by all Internet service providers worldwide. Therefore, anyone sending UBE on the Internet, regardless of whether the content is commercial or not, illegal or not, needs to be fully aware that they will lose their Internet access if they send UBE and they will be placed on the Spamhaus Block List if they send UBE.
Eliminate / Reduce Spam
Have you ever thought, "I hate spam". This spam problem is growing, costing corporations billions of dollars in lost productivity. A spam firewall recovers losses:
- Eliminates spam and virus
- Protects your email server and your company
We hate spam too, our spam firewall provides different spam blocking techniques to help counter the various types of spam.
A spam blocking firewall provides comprehensive email protection.
Because spammers are always trying to bypass anti-spam techniques by changing the methods they use to send spam, it’s best for corporations to protect themselves with a spam blocking solution that uses more than one spam blocking technique. Each one of these techniques has advantages, disadvantages, as well as limitations.
To minimize the amount of spam that enters an organization, a spam blocking solution that includes a combination of the most effective techniques should be implemented.