definition of spam

DEFINTION OF SPAM

Definitions of Spam on the Web:
any message where its score is equal to or greater than the specified threshold. Email Spam
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Spam is unsolicited e-mail on the Internet. From the sender's point-of-view, it's a form of bulk mail, often to a list culled from subscribers to a Usenet discussion group or obtained by companies that specialize in creating e-mail distribution lists. ...
www.netaonline.org/pd-digitalglossary.rtf

Spam is the term widely used for unsolicited e-mail; spam is also referred to as junk mail. Spam is usually sent indiscriminately to hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of inbox's simultaneously. ...
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Any activity designed to trick the search engines into giving a site a higher ranking. Common tactics include hiding keywords as white text on a white page background, submitting a web page to a search engine daily, and building doorway pages.
www.psycray.com/glossary.html

Unwanted, usually advertisement email. Spam are usually sent in bulk and the recipient addresses are obtained by illegal means (eg by tapping the network communication).
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Refers to the practice of blindly posting commercial messages or advertisements to a large number of unrelated and uninterested newsgroups.
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indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Noun: electronic "junk mail".
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Unscrupulous or unethical means of inflating results. Usually deteriorates the quality of listings and often results in penalties or being banned from a search engine.
www.discountclick.com/help/seo/glossary.asp

Unsolicited Email, like electronic junk mail
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In the SEO vernacular, this refers to manipulation techniques that violate search engines Terms of Service and are designed to achieve higher rankings for a web page. Obviously, spam could be grounds for banning.
www.seotrail.com/seo/seo-terms

Spam is either a shelved potted meat product or an Internet term for unsolicited commercial email. In the case of search marketing, search engines had to put up their guard against overzealous search marketers who bombarded them with massive daily submissions and loaded their pages with keyword ...
www.searchenginewriting.com/glossary.shtml

E-mail is a push-only medium: control of who receives information lies primarily with the sender. This can lead to an overflow of unwanted or irrelevant information.
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The term used to describe commercial emails (junk mail) which are unsolicited by the receiver. This unethical practice is used by many companies as a means to improve their website’s position within the search engines.
www.legalinternetmarketing.com/seo-glossary.html

An obnoxious practice of mass advertising to clients through e-mail, IRC, a browser, or any other communication device.
www.mantis.biz/glossary

Spam is the email equivalent of junk email or nuisance phone calls. Spam can simply be defined as all unsolicited electronic mail sent out in bulk to individuals/organisations that have not consented to receive it.
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Unsolicited bulk or junk e-mail.
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Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings.
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Originating from the name of Hormel's canned meat, "spam" now also refers to junk e-mail or irrelevant postings to a newsgroup or bulletin board. The unsolicited e-mail messages you receive about refinancing your home, reversing aging, and losing those extra pounds are all considered to be spam. ...
www.netchico.com/support/glossary/s.php

Generally refers to repeated and irrelevant content. As an optimization term, spam refers to loading a page with keywords or loading a search engine’s index with mirror sites. ...
seobuild.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/seo-terms/

Spam is the computer equivalent of junk mail and refers to unwanted email. Spam is often used to advertise products because of its low cost and potential to reach a large number of people.
www.le.ac.uk/webcentre/help/glossary.html

a canned meat made largely from pork
send unwanted or junk e-mail
unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)
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SPAM luncheon meat is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. The labelled ingredients in the Classic variety of Spam are: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite to help "keep its color". ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam (food)

Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam (electronic)

Spam is a computer game phenomenon prevalent in FPS but also strongly present in many other game genres. Generally, it refers to the repeated, rapid use of an item, weapon or unit. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam (gaming term)

"Spam" is a popular Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam (Monty Python)

A collection of unsolicited bulk electronic messages; Any undesired electronic content automatically-generated for commercial purposes; (rare) An unsolicited electronic message sent in bulk, usually by email or newsgroups; Alternative form of SPAM; : To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spam

taken form google definitions

I cannot believe you went to all that trouble to find like 20 definitions of spam XD