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January 16th, 2008
By Chad Perrin

Spam is unsolicited bulk emailing, generally for commercial advertising purposes. It is the electronic equivalent of the junk mail you get from credit card companies like Capital One in your mailbox all the time. Email spam started to become a serious problem in the mid-1990s with the growth of the market for Internet-connected personal computers with integrated email capabilities.

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