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    • tomgagaga on Sat 14 Nov 2009
    • 04:13:04 AM UTC

    Where can spam infiltrate?

    Is spam only related to email, or are there other ways of receiving spam?

    Is processor spam something related?

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    • Delan Azabani on Sat 14 Nov 2009
    • 08:01:28 AM UTC

    Spam could mean unwanted

    Spam could mean unwanted messages - in which case it can be anywhere: email, forums, blog post comments. It could also mean something of a DoS, by spamming requests, yes.
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    • phantazm on Sat 14 Nov 2009
    • 05:48:57 PM UTC

    Spam is many things

    Any channel may relay a normal message - or spam.
    So here are some of the many roads:

    Paper
    (Yes, we had spam before email was invented,
    but back in those days seldom with a virus included...)

    Email
    (Much faster and cheaper than paper - unfortunately the spammers all agree...)

    Blog messages
    (If any guest can comment, so can spammers...)

    Forum messages
    (If you can write anything you want, so can spammers...)

    Twitter
    (If you don't have anything important to say, then 140 characters is plenty space...)

    SMS
    (Mobile phones are really small portable computers,
    so of course, now they're abused too...)

    Facebook, MySpace...
    (These are a kind of collective micro blogging,
    and therefore inherits the blogs possibilities of abuse...)

    Pigeons
    (If pigeons were still used to carry messages, they too would be spamming us...)

    PS: I'm not sure what you mean by "processor spam". Care to elaborate..?
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    • amishrabbit on Tue 17 Nov 2009
    • 06:52:53 PM UTC

    I am tempted to paraphrase Doctor Who

    Something about "spam is patient, spam penetrates" but I won't do that to you.
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    • g7w on Tue 17 Nov 2009
    • 11:58:31 PM UTC

    spam

    originally... came in a can.
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