Spam – Past and Present
At the root of the spam problem is the fact that, historically, the Internet started as an open medium for people to communicate and share information. After the U.S. Congress opened the Internet for electronic commerce in 1995, the proliferation of both users and businesses on the Internet led to a dramatic increase in the volume of email, and above all in the volume of unsolicited bulk email (UBE) and unsolicited commercial email (UCE), also known as spam.