The truth about Spam
by: Djai Tanji
Spam is unsolicited or voluntary bulk emailing intended for commercial advertising. You can compare it to the junk mails you get in your mailbox from credit card companies. It has started to be a major problem starting mid 90’s as the market for internet connected personal computers grew. UBE or what we call Spam comprises somewhat in the range of 85% of the whole email volume delivered in the internet today and this has been regarded as serious problem. There were solutions about this like heuristic and blacklist filters but it was not enough somehow. And worse, even legitimate emails or email sources are sometimes blocked and this false positives are even bigger problems.