Newsgroup spam predates e-mail spam, and targets Usenet newsgroups. Old
Usenet convention defines spamming as excessive multiple posting, that is,
the repeated posting of a message (or substantially similar messages). Since
posting to newsgroups is nearly as easy as sending e-mails, newsgroups are a
popular target of spammers. The Breidbart Index was developed to provide an
objective measure of the "spamminess" of a multi-posted or cross-posted
message on Usenet.

Spamming an internet forum in general, is when a user posts something which
is off-topic or doesn't have anything to do with the current subject. Also,
a post that doesn't contribute to the thread whatsoever is also considered
spam in some cases. A third form of Forum Spamming is where a person
repeatedly posts about a certain subject in a manner that is unwanted by
(and possibly annoying to) the general population of the forum. Lastly there
is also the case where a person posts messages solely for the purpose of
increasing his or her ranking on the forum. In a broader sense, advertising
on forums where it is not wanted is known as spamming and is generally seen
as an annoyance.Recently forum http://z3.invisionfree.com/shadowsover/ set
up an antispam system which stops unwanted links being posted and snips the
links out of posts.This is also being used in many business forums such as
bravenet forum.


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Joe W.
T2 Nov '05
30mg Actos, 500mg Cinnamon, 80-100 carbs/day &
30 minute walk & BowFlex 3x/week


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