An article from a 7th grade Technology student

In technology classes students are researching and developing ideas about spamm, this is one of those works done in class

Spamming

Spamming is defined as unsolicited or wrong electronic messages in the Internet and other places. Spamming is a way that people found to bother other people and to make them believe wrong things. E-mail is the most common place where spamming occurs. Spamming is also present in blogs, social networking sites, newsgroups, and cell phones. Spamming is a wrong-used market tool. Spamming occupies 50 percent of all the e-mails that circulate over the Internet.

Spamming started with a man named Gary Thuerk, who was an employee in a digital company and a marketing manager. It was in 1978, when he sent an unsolicited mail out; that e-mail contained promotion of his firm’s computer products. That error that Gary did provoked anger in all of the users in e–mail. That action Gary made gave people an idea of how to bother people through the e-mails. Gary’s mail was the first example of spamming, without even noticing it.

Over time, spamming grew its popularity along Internet and later; it went to cell phones, blogs and other places. With out knowing it, spammers were then a big population. Spamming went out of control. Spammers started sending bad and dangerous e-mails. Years later, spamming is still present.


“Spam” Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2010.Web. 9 Nov. 2010
http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9471035.