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"On July 20, 2008, Eddie Davidson walked away from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. He was subsequently found dead in Arapahoe County, Colorado, after reportedly killing his wife and three-year-old daughter, in an apparent murder-suicide." Um, huh? What does that have to do with the article, other than the fact he was a prolific mass spammer which by the way, is fact that is not even made clear in the article to help a reader understand the context of this sentence, and even so, I fail to understand why it is there. This isn't List of spammers, so I think that bit should be removed, or be placed in the "See also" section. -- Whip it! Now whip it good! 00:41, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
I've done this as the article clearly has issues, here's just a quick sample of prose which is unverified and possibly innappropriate in tone:
Furthermore, the article fails to coherently focus the topic, it's quite ridiculous that right at the beginning of the article we are presented with superfluous information such as "Most common products advertised" without even discussing Spam's origins. The article History of email spam doesn't seem to expand on it's origins either. This glaring omission is reason enough for a quick fail alone. Sillyfolkboy ( talk) ( edits) 22:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
The article has been nominate for GA on 27 April, without the former review's issues being resolved. In particular, there are maintenance tags and fact-tags in the article. I am therefore going to an out-of-process quick fail (no need to fill up the article history with embarrassing successive GA failings). If it is renominated, I will do a formal quick-fail, unless the issues are fixed. Arsenikk (talk) 23:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
"E-mail spam has steadily, even exponentially grown since the early 1990s to several billion messages a day. Spam has frustrated, confused, and annoyed e-mail users. The total volume of spam (over 100 billion emails per day as of April 2008[update]) has leveled off slightly in recent years, and is no longer growing exponentially. " source?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.124.128.123 ( talk) 19:35, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Due to misuse of citations and statistics, I have marked a number of citations and referenced numbers as questionable. The numbers I am concerned about is in the Statistics and Estimates section e.g. the number of spam emails per day or and statistical origins of spam. Many of the citations comes from press releases from a single commercial source, Sophos, specialising in IT-security and spam prevention tools. The press releases contains sales enhancing statements such as "Currently it is impossible to run a business email service without proper spam protection..." and so on. Some of the citations only contains generic statements about the number of spam messages per day. To remedy all this misinformation about the proportions of this problem, community wide independent research reports/studies should be referenced. The reports or studies should 1) be supported by other independent authorities on the matter and 2) contain raw data, analysis and statistics so that the findings can be independently verified. Tfinneid ( talk) 11:03, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
The article does not mention Bot Bait; web pages designed to recursively generate an infinite number of random e-mail addresses. (Although the See also section does contain a link to Spider trap.) Would this not be a useful addition to the article? HairyWombat ( talk) 21:21, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
I have come across a number of examples of this recently: does it source from Russia?
Apart from 'developers of spam-blocking mechanisms' and 'collectors of creative-language spam' are there any positive results from spam-generation (for example new techniques of managing such messages and word recognition)? 18:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
The information in this Wikipedia entry about Australia's spam laws being opt-in only, and how this contrasts with US spam laws opt-out requirements is completely fictitious. There is nothing about this mentioned in the Spam Act 2003. The Spam Act 2003 allows for people to send a commercial email to another person provided they have express or inferred consent (and follow the other rules). You may legally send a commercial email to someone who has conspicuously published their email address so long as the email is relevant to their published role. Source: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/sa200366/sch2.html. E.g. you can, under the definition of inferred consent in the Spam Act, email offers of plumbing supplies to a plumber who has published his email address on his website. So in this case, with inferred consent, you can email the person a commercial email even if they did not opt-in. So whoever wrote that Australia's laws require an opt-in requirement was wrong. Whether an email is classified as spam by the Spam Act 2003 comes down to three things: 1) whether there is consent (opt-in is one form of consent, but consent can also be inferred), 2) whether the sender provides accurate identification, 3) whether the sender provides a mechanism for the receiver to unsubscribe. The Australian laws don't contrast with the U.S. laws, in fact they are very similar to them. So this needs to be revised because the information that Australian spam laws are an opt-in requirement is false. 27.33.131.151 ( talk) 05:11, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I was searching around the article and source 39 no longer exists and it needs to be replaced. Lothp ( talk) 21:53, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
The statement that some country did actually legalize spam must sound absurd for most of you. It seems absurd even for most people here in Bulgaria.
Unfortunately this section in the article is not fabricated. The Bulgarian e-comerce act does exist and believe me - it is extremely far from being the only, or the most absurd thing in this country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dkavlakov ( talk • contribs) 01:27, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
I certainly don't want to clog up the External links section with irrelevant or worthless links, but Randy Cassingham's Spam Primer ( SpamPrimer.com) seems particularly relevant, comprehensive and gives a really good run-down on the different kinds of spam and how to deal with them. Yes, no? — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:24, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
The intro paragraph says "Email spam has steadily grown since the early 1990s". This is no longer true as far as I can tell. While we really don't know if it's because of botnet takedowns or other reasons, the level of spam on the Internet has decreased in the past couple of years. See, for example:
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/technology-12126880
2. http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/landing/spam/ (Symantec's Brightnet statistics; you'll have to click on "History" to see multiple years. This represents an estimate by Symantec of global spam and shows a pronounced decrease in the past 18 months.)
3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/30/spam_volumes_shrink/
It seems to me that this sentence should be changed, but I'm not sure how to change it and how to source it since no one seems to be talking about it much after the initial fall after the takedown of Rustock. All I can find for sources are graphs that are difficult to link to. Perhaps something like "Email spam grew steadily through the early 1990's and the first decade of the 21st century but recently volumes have fallen"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paultparker ( talk • contribs) 15:05, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Not only is volume falling: proportion of all email has been dropping too. The article needs updating for 2013 data by anyone who has the time to search out reliable sources. Kaspersky, eg, is still showing 2012 data. — Preceding
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I am person who continuously have to explain people that spam is not good even when it is legal. Current wiki page indirectly supports view that if spam is legal, then it has nothing to do with ethics. I think this is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.213.52.170 ( talk) 06:50, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Bacn has been proposed for merging (by User:Jarble in April), into the Email spam#Related vocabulary subsection. Any objections?
I propose to delete the section on Bacn. "Email that you want, but not right now" implies that spam is email that you don't want.
That is completely incorrect. Spam is unsolicited bulk email, not "email that you don't want". If bacn is email that you don't want, then it doesn't belong in this article, because that definition is unrelated to spam.
I don't know how I missed this merge proposal; I would have argued (and voted) against it. Also, as far as I can see, this is a term that emerged last year at some podcasting camp, that may or may not be chucked around by some bloggers. I can only find in the article two citations for this term, and one of those refers to the other. Basically, the term is cited to one podcaster rally in 2017. MrDemeanour ( talk) 16:28, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
I received an email from a disgruntled/apparently unethical or just not self-aware person saying they had flagged my email address as spam (on what looks like Time Warner's Road Runner mail). It got me wondering how an address becomes spam. Could an angry ex flag all of your email as spam and have some effect? How would you know if your mail is being routed into spam folders, since you don't typically get mail back telling you as such? Are spam registries at all confederated? These all seem like interesting questions that I would love to read answers to-- 172.243.161.115 ( talk) 17:39, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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this is a list of emails anyone can spam, enjoy :D somethingtodohere65@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:AC92:AC00:B405:4492:2DCB:143D ( talk) 04:58, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
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This section is entirely free of citations.
In general, this article suffers from citation problems: statements that appear to be cited, because they are in a para that ends with a citation, but which are not supported by the source.
In general, I think this is a pretty awful article. I have made a number of edits with the aim of improving it, but there is a lot of work to do. MrDemeanour ( talk) 11:59, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
I've made quite a lot of edits to this article, and to Spamming and Email marketing. All three articles suffered from masses of uncited content, much of which was WP:OR. Also, all three articles are unduly long. People seem to love to come to these articles and add another wee titbit, cited or not, often in the wrong section, without regard to whether the addition improves the article. I guess everyone knows something about spam; so WP:OR gets everywhere.
There's still a lot of uncited material. The articles are still too long. There's still too much OR. Actually, I think there are too many articles; but I can't see any merge opportunity that won't make the resulting article a WP:COATRACK. MrDemeanour ( talk) 12:12, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
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The legal status of spam varies from one jurisdiction to another. In the United States, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 preempted state laws specific to e-mail, making redress more difficult; it required that messages adheres to rules set by the Act and by the FTC, but did not otherwise address Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE). ISPs have attempted to recover the cost of spam through lawsuits against spammers, although they have been mostly unsuccessful in collecting damages despite winning in court. [1] [2]
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That text is a factual decription of the legal status of spam, not a comment on it, and I see nothing contentious about it.
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(b) STATE LAW.-(1) IN GENERAL.--This Act supersedes any statute, regulation, or rule of a State or political subdivision of a State that expressly regulates the use of electronic mail to send commercial messages, except to the extent that any such statute, regulation, or rule prohibits falsity or deception in any portion of a commercial electronic mail message or information attached thereto.
CAN-SPAM does not legalize either UBE or UCE, although it does make redress more difficult; it explicitly [1] leaves intact laws not specific to e-mail. Courts have ruled that spam is, e.g., Trespass to Chattel [2]. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 19:48, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
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(2) STATE LAW NOT SPECIFIC TO ELECTRONIC ~ZL.--This Act shall not be construed to preempt the applicability of(A) State laws that are not specific to electronic mail, including State trespass, contract, or tot~ law; or (B) other State laws to the extent that those laws relate to acts of fraud or computer crime.
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Spam bait. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#Spam bait until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Not a very active user ( talk) 16:20, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Ham (e-mail). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#Ham (e-mail) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Not a very active user ( talk) 16:27, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Rolex (spam). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#Rolex (spam) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Not a very active user ( talk) 17:09, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
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The information in this article needs to be updated some, and there is some information in the article that isn't important. Ravyn cavanaugh ( talk) 17:37, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Would fine if there complete sentences (grammar faults intended).-- Mideal ( talk) 13:06, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
Isn't the name of the product SPAM® rather than Spam? That's certainly what the Hormel web page at https://www.hormelfoods.com/brand/spam-brand/ says. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 13:33, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
Can the following be used: Spam used to carry viruses and used to defraud people? Example: "You WON $120,000,000! Click on THIS link!". You click on it, then your bank later calls you, E-mails you, etc. stating that your accounts have no money in them, you got some kiddie porn on your computer, you lost your house, worse. I've seen it happen on the news, etc. 216.247.72.142 ( talk) 06:12, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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"On July 20, 2008, Eddie Davidson walked away from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. He was subsequently found dead in Arapahoe County, Colorado, after reportedly killing his wife and three-year-old daughter, in an apparent murder-suicide." Um, huh? What does that have to do with the article, other than the fact he was a prolific mass spammer which by the way, is fact that is not even made clear in the article to help a reader understand the context of this sentence, and even so, I fail to understand why it is there. This isn't List of spammers, so I think that bit should be removed, or be placed in the "See also" section. -- Whip it! Now whip it good! 00:41, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
I've done this as the article clearly has issues, here's just a quick sample of prose which is unverified and possibly innappropriate in tone:
Furthermore, the article fails to coherently focus the topic, it's quite ridiculous that right at the beginning of the article we are presented with superfluous information such as "Most common products advertised" without even discussing Spam's origins. The article History of email spam doesn't seem to expand on it's origins either. This glaring omission is reason enough for a quick fail alone. Sillyfolkboy ( talk) ( edits) 22:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
The article has been nominate for GA on 27 April, without the former review's issues being resolved. In particular, there are maintenance tags and fact-tags in the article. I am therefore going to an out-of-process quick fail (no need to fill up the article history with embarrassing successive GA failings). If it is renominated, I will do a formal quick-fail, unless the issues are fixed. Arsenikk (talk) 23:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
"E-mail spam has steadily, even exponentially grown since the early 1990s to several billion messages a day. Spam has frustrated, confused, and annoyed e-mail users. The total volume of spam (over 100 billion emails per day as of April 2008[update]) has leveled off slightly in recent years, and is no longer growing exponentially. " source?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.124.128.123 ( talk) 19:35, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Due to misuse of citations and statistics, I have marked a number of citations and referenced numbers as questionable. The numbers I am concerned about is in the Statistics and Estimates section e.g. the number of spam emails per day or and statistical origins of spam. Many of the citations comes from press releases from a single commercial source, Sophos, specialising in IT-security and spam prevention tools. The press releases contains sales enhancing statements such as "Currently it is impossible to run a business email service without proper spam protection..." and so on. Some of the citations only contains generic statements about the number of spam messages per day. To remedy all this misinformation about the proportions of this problem, community wide independent research reports/studies should be referenced. The reports or studies should 1) be supported by other independent authorities on the matter and 2) contain raw data, analysis and statistics so that the findings can be independently verified. Tfinneid ( talk) 11:03, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
The article does not mention Bot Bait; web pages designed to recursively generate an infinite number of random e-mail addresses. (Although the See also section does contain a link to Spider trap.) Would this not be a useful addition to the article? HairyWombat ( talk) 21:21, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
I have come across a number of examples of this recently: does it source from Russia?
Apart from 'developers of spam-blocking mechanisms' and 'collectors of creative-language spam' are there any positive results from spam-generation (for example new techniques of managing such messages and word recognition)? 18:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
The information in this Wikipedia entry about Australia's spam laws being opt-in only, and how this contrasts with US spam laws opt-out requirements is completely fictitious. There is nothing about this mentioned in the Spam Act 2003. The Spam Act 2003 allows for people to send a commercial email to another person provided they have express or inferred consent (and follow the other rules). You may legally send a commercial email to someone who has conspicuously published their email address so long as the email is relevant to their published role. Source: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/sa200366/sch2.html. E.g. you can, under the definition of inferred consent in the Spam Act, email offers of plumbing supplies to a plumber who has published his email address on his website. So in this case, with inferred consent, you can email the person a commercial email even if they did not opt-in. So whoever wrote that Australia's laws require an opt-in requirement was wrong. Whether an email is classified as spam by the Spam Act 2003 comes down to three things: 1) whether there is consent (opt-in is one form of consent, but consent can also be inferred), 2) whether the sender provides accurate identification, 3) whether the sender provides a mechanism for the receiver to unsubscribe. The Australian laws don't contrast with the U.S. laws, in fact they are very similar to them. So this needs to be revised because the information that Australian spam laws are an opt-in requirement is false. 27.33.131.151 ( talk) 05:11, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I was searching around the article and source 39 no longer exists and it needs to be replaced. Lothp ( talk) 21:53, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
The statement that some country did actually legalize spam must sound absurd for most of you. It seems absurd even for most people here in Bulgaria.
Unfortunately this section in the article is not fabricated. The Bulgarian e-comerce act does exist and believe me - it is extremely far from being the only, or the most absurd thing in this country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dkavlakov ( talk • contribs) 01:27, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
I certainly don't want to clog up the External links section with irrelevant or worthless links, but Randy Cassingham's Spam Primer ( SpamPrimer.com) seems particularly relevant, comprehensive and gives a really good run-down on the different kinds of spam and how to deal with them. Yes, no? — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:24, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
The intro paragraph says "Email spam has steadily grown since the early 1990s". This is no longer true as far as I can tell. While we really don't know if it's because of botnet takedowns or other reasons, the level of spam on the Internet has decreased in the past couple of years. See, for example:
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/technology-12126880
2. http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/landing/spam/ (Symantec's Brightnet statistics; you'll have to click on "History" to see multiple years. This represents an estimate by Symantec of global spam and shows a pronounced decrease in the past 18 months.)
3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/30/spam_volumes_shrink/
It seems to me that this sentence should be changed, but I'm not sure how to change it and how to source it since no one seems to be talking about it much after the initial fall after the takedown of Rustock. All I can find for sources are graphs that are difficult to link to. Perhaps something like "Email spam grew steadily through the early 1990's and the first decade of the 21st century but recently volumes have fallen"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paultparker ( talk • contribs) 15:05, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Not only is volume falling: proportion of all email has been dropping too. The article needs updating for 2013 data by anyone who has the time to search out reliable sources. Kaspersky, eg, is still showing 2012 data. — Preceding
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I am person who continuously have to explain people that spam is not good even when it is legal. Current wiki page indirectly supports view that if spam is legal, then it has nothing to do with ethics. I think this is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.213.52.170 ( talk) 06:50, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Bacn has been proposed for merging (by User:Jarble in April), into the Email spam#Related vocabulary subsection. Any objections?
I propose to delete the section on Bacn. "Email that you want, but not right now" implies that spam is email that you don't want.
That is completely incorrect. Spam is unsolicited bulk email, not "email that you don't want". If bacn is email that you don't want, then it doesn't belong in this article, because that definition is unrelated to spam.
I don't know how I missed this merge proposal; I would have argued (and voted) against it. Also, as far as I can see, this is a term that emerged last year at some podcasting camp, that may or may not be chucked around by some bloggers. I can only find in the article two citations for this term, and one of those refers to the other. Basically, the term is cited to one podcaster rally in 2017. MrDemeanour ( talk) 16:28, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
I received an email from a disgruntled/apparently unethical or just not self-aware person saying they had flagged my email address as spam (on what looks like Time Warner's Road Runner mail). It got me wondering how an address becomes spam. Could an angry ex flag all of your email as spam and have some effect? How would you know if your mail is being routed into spam folders, since you don't typically get mail back telling you as such? Are spam registries at all confederated? These all seem like interesting questions that I would love to read answers to-- 172.243.161.115 ( talk) 17:39, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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This section is entirely free of citations.
In general, this article suffers from citation problems: statements that appear to be cited, because they are in a para that ends with a citation, but which are not supported by the source.
In general, I think this is a pretty awful article. I have made a number of edits with the aim of improving it, but there is a lot of work to do. MrDemeanour ( talk) 11:59, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
I've made quite a lot of edits to this article, and to Spamming and Email marketing. All three articles suffered from masses of uncited content, much of which was WP:OR. Also, all three articles are unduly long. People seem to love to come to these articles and add another wee titbit, cited or not, often in the wrong section, without regard to whether the addition improves the article. I guess everyone knows something about spam; so WP:OR gets everywhere.
There's still a lot of uncited material. The articles are still too long. There's still too much OR. Actually, I think there are too many articles; but I can't see any merge opportunity that won't make the resulting article a WP:COATRACK. MrDemeanour ( talk) 12:12, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
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The legal status of spam varies from one jurisdiction to another. In the United States, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 preempted state laws specific to e-mail, making redress more difficult; it required that messages adheres to rules set by the Act and by the FTC, but did not otherwise address Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE). ISPs have attempted to recover the cost of spam through lawsuits against spammers, although they have been mostly unsuccessful in collecting damages despite winning in court. [1] [2]
with the edit summary (re-org, remove contentious CANSPAM comment)
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That text is a factual decription of the legal status of spam, not a comment on it, and I see nothing contentious about it.
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (
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(b) STATE LAW.-(1) IN GENERAL.--This Act supersedes any statute, regulation, or rule of a State or political subdivision of a State that expressly regulates the use of electronic mail to send commercial messages, except to the extent that any such statute, regulation, or rule prohibits falsity or deception in any portion of a commercial electronic mail message or information attached thereto.
CAN-SPAM does not legalize either UBE or UCE, although it does make redress more difficult; it explicitly [1] leaves intact laws not specific to e-mail. Courts have ruled that spam is, e.g., Trespass to Chattel [2]. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 19:48, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
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(2) STATE LAW NOT SPECIFIC TO ELECTRONIC ~ZL.--This Act shall not be construed to preempt the applicability of(A) State laws that are not specific to electronic mail, including State trespass, contract, or tot~ law; or (B) other State laws to the extent that those laws relate to acts of fraud or computer crime.
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Spam bait. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#Spam bait until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Not a very active user ( talk) 16:20, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Ham (e-mail). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#Ham (e-mail) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Not a very active user ( talk) 16:27, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Rolex (spam). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#Rolex (spam) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Not a very active user ( talk) 17:09, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect E-blast. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#E-blast until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Not a very active user ( talk) 17:16, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Email Blasting. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#Email Blasting until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 ( talk) 18:13, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
The information in this article needs to be updated some, and there is some information in the article that isn't important. Ravyn cavanaugh ( talk) 17:37, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Would fine if there complete sentences (grammar faults intended).-- Mideal ( talk) 13:06, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
Isn't the name of the product SPAM® rather than Spam? That's certainly what the Hormel web page at https://www.hormelfoods.com/brand/spam-brand/ says. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 13:33, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
Can the following be used: Spam used to carry viruses and used to defraud people? Example: "You WON $120,000,000! Click on THIS link!". You click on it, then your bank later calls you, E-mails you, etc. stating that your accounts have no money in them, you got some kiddie porn on your computer, you lost your house, worse. I've seen it happen on the news, etc. 216.247.72.142 ( talk) 06:12, 3 July 2023 (UTC)