This document discusses spam and defines it as unsolicited email sent in bulk without the recipient's consent. It provides examples of messages that would and would not be considered spam. It argues that spam is unethical because it costs recipients time and resources to filter, can clog email networks, and enables the spread of viruses. While spam may be legal in Portugal if sent to companies, it violates the policies of most internet providers. Freedom of speech does not give people the right to compel others to listen without their consent.

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2.  What is SPAM?
 An e-mail is considered SPAM if…
 Just allow the cancellation of the messages?
 And a warning like "This message can not be considered
SPAM“?
 What's wrong with SPAM?
 SPAM is not the same as the mail advertising?
 Reject SPAM is not a form of censorship?

3.  By raising some questions to clarify the
readers about what is SPAM and how to act
before him.
 Demonstrate that the spread of SPAM is a
wrong attitude.

4.  This term is used regularly to describe unsolicited
email sent in bulk.
 A message is an unsolicited email message sent to
someone who did not give their consent to receive
it.
 A message sent in bulk is a message of identical
content sent to a large number of recipients.

5. An e-mail is considered spam if:
 has not been requested by the recipient and
 has been forwarded by weight.
Messages of first contact, requests for quotes
and job applications are examples of unsolicited
messages, but are not SPAM (assuming they are
not sent in bulk).
Subscription newsletters, mailing lists and
customer communications are examples of
messages sent in bulk, but are not SPAM
(assuming there is consent of the recipients).

6.  It is not because of allowing the recipient to
cancel the receipt of messages that the spam
stops being SPAM. Messages sent in bulk
always requires consent of recipients.

7.  These warnings are completely absurd. Now, the
fashion in Portugal is to put something like this in
SPAM: “This email is intended solely to inform
potential customers and can not be considered
SPAM. “
passing: “The email could not be considered as SPAM
include a form of the receptor to be removed from
the list.”
to the hilarious: “We are against spam, if you do not
wish to receive this newsletter, click here.”
The only good thing is that these warnings allow us
to easily identify these messages as SPAM same.

8.  Sending SPAM is an unethical practice that constitutes an attack
on freedom of users to email and the Internet in general. Unlike
unsolicited advertising paper that we received in mailboxes
physical (and can even refuse with a simple sticker), the sending
of SPAM has a negligible cost to anyone who sends him, but
have high costs to the recipient:
 Users spend a lot of time to identify the spam in your mailbox,
which decreases their productivity.
 Users can easily lose legitimate messages in the middle of SPAM
or blocked by the increasingly aggressive anti-spam filters.

9.  The networks are clogged by spam (more than
90% of all e-mail), which requires the e-mail
providers to spend more time and resources.
Costs that will be seen on the end users
(through price increase or degradation of
service quality).
 SPAM is a major means to spread viruses and
trojans that affect the safety of all Internet
users.

10. SPAM
is an attack on freedom of users, as obliges
them to consult messages that never asked to
receive.
It's as if people were forced to flee into the
house all the vendors and only after they
show the product they sell is that people
could ask them to leave.

11.  In Portugal, unfortunately, the SPAM is legal
provided it is sent to legal persons.
 However, although it may be legal, it is still
unethical and justice.
 Furthermore, the sending of SPAM constitutes
breach of the rules of the overwhelming majority
of ISP (although many ISPs are diligent in some
sense to enforce the rules themselves and others
to condone the sending of SPAM).

12.  Não, o custo do correio postal não-solicitado
é suportado pelo remetente, enquanto, que o
custo do correio electrónico não-solicitado
enviado em massa é suportado sobretudo
pelo destinatário.
 No caso do correio postal não-solicitado, os
custos que lhe estão associados são, desde
logo, um factor que contribui para a sua
limitação. Além disso, em Portugal, qualquer
pessoa pode muito facilmente recusar a
publicidade na caixa de correio postal,
colocando um autocolante a indicar que não
pretende publicidade.

13.  Not at all. Freedom of speech gives people
the right to express themselves freely, but it
gives them the right to compel others to
listen to them, that's what spammers do.
 Who wants to advertise their products must
support itself costs of advertising and use
the proper channels, instead of letting the
expense and inconvenience to recipients.

14.  Note: When you forward a message, please:
1. Erase my name, and address.
2. Delete the address of the friends before
resubmitting.
3. Forward as a blind copy (Bcc: or Bcc :) to
your recipients.
Acting always like that, we hinder the spread
of viruses, spam and banners

15.  After reading this lesson should have been
clear about:
 What is SPAM;
 How to proceed;
 What is SPAM that is wrong;
 SPAM is not the same as the mail
advertising and Reject SPAM is not a form of
censorship.

16.  “I know what is moral what makes us feel
good after, and immoral what makes us feel
bad after.”
Ernest Hemingway
 “Without modesty, there can be no honest,
nothing worthy.”
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