Let's define this thing called SPAM, Junk Mail or it's official term "Unsolicited Commercial Email". One of the definitions comes from the Federal Trade Commission directly. We have provided an excerpt from them as follows:

 
"Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail" PREPARED STATEMENT OFTHE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 
ON "Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail" Before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS, 
TRADE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION of the COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES Washington, D.C. November 3, 1999

B. Concerns about Unsolicited Commercial Email

   Unsolicited commercial email -- "UCE," or "spam," in the online vernacular -- 
   is any commercial electronic mail message sent, often in bulk, to a consumer 
   without the consumer's prior request or consent. The staff of the Commission 
   has amassed a database containing over 2 million pieces of UCE. Analysis of 
   this UCE database shows that well-known manufacturers and sellers of consumer 
   goods and services seldom send UCE. Rather, merchants of this type use 
   solicited email to give consumers information that they have requested about 
   available products, services, and sales. For example, consumers may agree in 
   advance to receive information about newly-published books on subjects of 
   interest, online catalogues for products or services frequently purchased, 
   or weekly emails about discounted airfares.

   These examples of bulk commercial email sent at the consumer's request 
   demonstrate the value of consumer sovereignty to the growth of Internet 
   commerce. Giving consumers the ability to choose the information they receive 
   over the Internet -- known in the industry now as "permission-based" marketing -- 
   seems likely to create more confidence in its content and in the sender. 
   Conversely, when unsolicited information arrives in consumers' electronic 
   mailboxes, the consumers who have contacted the Commission have been far less 
   likely to engage in commerce with the sender.

   Not all UCE is fraudulent, but fraud operators - often among the first to exploit 
   any technological innovation - have seized on the Internet's capacity to reach 
   literally millions of consumers quickly and at a low cost through UCE. In fact, 
   UCE has become the fraud artist's calling card on the Internet. Much of the spam 
   in the Commission's database contains false information about the sender, 
   misleading subject lines, and extravagant earnings or performance claims about 
   goods and services. These types of claims are the stock in trade of fraudulent 
   schemes.

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It is you who should decide what email you do or do not want. Here's how you can:

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