•The effect of e-mail links on increasing Spam is a concern.
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•Spam is unsolicited junk e-mail sent to large numbers of people, promoting products, services, and in some cases,
pornographic Web
sites.
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•Spammers create their e-mail lists through scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, and using
programs called e-mail harvesters
that scan HTML code on the Web looking
for the e-mail addresses contained in mailto URLs.