1. Junk e-mail

1.1 Definition of spam

Spam is an unsolicited electronic message sent en masse to a large number of recipients for advertising or malicious purposes.

Spam is also known as bulk email (UBE – Unsolicited bulk email ) [1] or junk email.

The terms "pourriel" or "courrier indésirable" are sometimes used, but the term "spam" is often preferred in documentation.

The term "spam" originated in a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus [2] , in the 1970s, in which the term is endlessly repeated in reference to a bistro menu lacking in choice, in parody...

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Bibliography

(1) - HOFFMAN (P.) - Unsolicited Bulk Email : Definitions and Problems. - Internet Mail Consortium (1997). http://www.imc.org/ube-def.html
(2) - WIKIPEDIA - Spam – Wikipedia, the...

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MAIGRON (P.) - Sécurité des e-mails : PGP et S/MIME. - [H 5 330] (2003).

Regulations

Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications) (OJ L. 201, 31 July 2002, pp. 37-47).

Standards and norms

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - RFC 2821 - 2001
Post Office Protocol – Version 3 - RFC 1939 - 1996
Internet Message Access Protocol – Version 4rev1 - RFC 3501 - 2003
Internet Message Format - RFC 2822 - 2001
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One : Format of Internet Message Bodies - RFC 2045 - 1996
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