You see, I thought that “Spam” was simply unsolicited and unwanted emails from anyone who sent them to you. I have a Yahoo email address, and a Yahoo mail account by the way, from which I receive my mail.
Therefore, I just blocked my ex-boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend as spam. She had my email listed in her bulk address list still after 6 months of me and my ex being broken up. I was never really friendly with her and rarely talked to her while I was with my ex anyways, so i kindly asked her a few times to please remove me from her list.
So I was sick and tired of getting her emails about pointless and useless information, and chain letter like emails including one that claimed that Bill Gates would give you $250.00 every time you forwarded an email about microsoft!
She had a hotmail account and a yahoo account, and I went into my mail options and marked 4 of her most recent emails as spam and blocked both addresses. My question here is was this the right thing to do and will she
and will she know that I reported her emails as spam?!
I just looked into the mail options in the spam section again, and it says that yahoo will cancel an account if it is reported that it sent spam. Do you think that her account will now get cancelled because I reported some of her mail as spam?
i am guessing that it will look like she sent it, nd then she will get a email from “mailer deamon” or sumthing like that saying there was a error in the message
A block only deflects the mail. It sends no notice. She may get an undeliverable message as the sender.
Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send — most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.
There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at “lurkers”, people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts. Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system administrators and owners to manage the topics they accept on their systems.
Email spam targets individual users with direct mail messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams typically cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many people – anyone with measured phone service – read or receive their mail while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.
One particularly nasty variant of email spam is sending spam to mailing lists (public or private email discussion forums.) Because many mailing lists limit activity to their subscribers, spammers will use automated tools to subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible, so that they can grab the lists of addresses, or use the mailing list as a direct target for their attacks.
Hope this information is helpful.