Daniel Viney is the Product Manager at Atmail.com. The term “spam” in relation to email is widely attributed to the Monty Python sketch written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin, in which spam is depicted as unavoidable. “Spam” became a commonly used term in the late nineties to describe the mass increase of unwanted marketing and advertising email. Technically speaking, spam is unsolicited bulk email. Modern spam email is largely sent by individuals or organizations with a malicious intent, such as to direct you to a website that contains malware or to phish for personally identifying information, like credit card details and passwords…
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