Spam

• Description in english
• Deutsche Erklärung
• Links

Description in english
To clearify a few acronyms:

• Spam:
  A collective term for ECP, EMP, UBE and UCE.
  Originally Spam is meat which is put into cans. But in a Monty Python sketch the word Spam is repeated a few hundred times. And spam messages are usually identical messages which are repeated very often. That's why it's called Spam.
• ECP: Excessive CrossPosting
  This is a posting which is sent in many usenet newsgroups.
• EMP: Excessive MultiPosting
  Equal to ECP, but this time it's not one message sent in many newsgroups. ECP are postings (which are containing the same or nearly identical messages) which are posted very often (but every time into a single and different newsgroup).
• UBE: Unsolicited Bulk Email
  Emails which are sent to many recipients without their permission.
• UCE: Unsolicited Commercial Email
  Emails containg advertising for products which are sent without permission.
• opt-in:
  If you have to subscribe to a mailing list to get emails.
• opt-out:
  If someone subscribed you to a mailing list (without your permission) and you have to unsubscribe you to stop the emails.

Deutsche Erklärung
Ein paar Abkürzungen und ihre Bedeutung:

• Spam:
  Sammelbegriff für ECP, EMP, UBE und UCE.
  Spam ist eigentlich ein Dosenfleisch. Aber in einem Monty Python-Sketch wurde das Wort Spam sehr oft wiederholt. Und Spam-Mails sind normalerweise ähnliche Texte, die immer wieder versendet werden. Daher der Name Spam.
• ECP: Excessive CrossPosting
  Eine Nachricht, die in viele Usenet Newsgruppen gepostet wird.
• EMP: Excessive MultiPosting
  Identisch mit ECP. In diesem Fall wird aber nicht eine Nachricht in viele Gruppen gepostet, sondern viele (gleiche bzw. nahezu identische) Nachrichten werden einzeln in viele unterschiedliche Gruppen gepostet.
• UBE: Unsolicited Bulk Email
  Unerbetene Massen-Emails.
• UCE: Unsolicited Commercial Email
  Unerbetene Werbemails.
• opt-in:
  Wenn man sich in Mailinglisten eintragen muß, um Mails zu erhalten.
• opt-out:
  Wenn man einfach (ihne Zustimmung) in Mailinglisten eingetragen wird und Mails bekommt und sich austragen muß, um die Mails zu stoppen.

Links
In Austria it's forbidden by law to send spam / In Österreich ist es gesetzlich verboten, Spam zu versenden

• Paragraph 101 des Telekommunikationsgesetzes, der Spam verbietet [G]
• LinuxTicker.com - Österreich verbietet Spam-Mails [G]
• ORF ON Futurezone - Diskussion um SpamVerbot in AT [G]
• Unbestellte Werbe-Emails werden in Österreich verboten [G]
• Mit Paragraphen gegen Email-Terror [G]
• Slashdot:Austria Bans Spam [E]

• Fight Spam on the Internet! [E]
• EuroCAUCE Homepage [E/G]
• Join the Fight Against Spam! [E]
• The Amazing SPAM Homepage! [E]
• SPAM F.A.Q. [E]
• Fight Spam on the Internet! [E]
• Freedom for Links | Netzkultur [G]
• Unsolicited Commercial Email - SPAM [E]
• No spam! [E]
• Spam Tracking Page [E]
• Spam glossary [E]
• RIPE NCC: Anti Spam Working Group [E]
• Links about UCE, UBE, Spam [E]
• WWW.SPAM.COM [E]
• RE: SPAM: SPAM and the Internet [E]
• The Spamhaus Project [E]
• SPUTUM.COM: Kill Spam Now...We Show You How. [E]
• Welcome to www.stopspam.org [E]
• SVZ online: Computerecke [G]
• Help! I've been Spammed! What do I do? [E]
• http://www.upt.org/spam/spam.html [E]
• Fight Spam on the Internet! [E]
• Spam Lawsuit [E]
• Spam Considered Harmful [E]