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An example of the Scunthorpe problem in Wikipedia because of a regular expression identifying "cunt" in the username. The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning.
Spam reporting, more properly called abuse reporting, is the action of designating electronic messages as abusive for reporting to an authority (e.g. an email administrator) so that they can be dealt with. Reported messages can be email messages, blog comments, or any kind of spam.
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A Domain Name System blocklist, Domain Name System-based blackhole list, Domain Name System blacklist (DNSBL) or real-time blackhole list (RBL) is a service for operation of mail servers to perform a check via a Domain Name System (DNS) query whether a sending host's IP address is blacklisted for email spam. [1]
In many jurisdictions there are anti-spam laws in place that restrict the harvesting or use of email addresses. [original research?In Australia, the creation or use of email-address harvesting programs (address harvesting software) is illegal, according to the 2003 anti-spam legislation, only if it is intended to use the email-address harvesting programs to send unsolicited commercial email.
CAN-SPAM, a direct response of the growing number of complaints over spam e-mails, [8] defines a "commercial electronic mail message" as "any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service (including content on an Internet website operated for a commercial ...
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Most email providers have an anti-spam feature that essentially blacklists certain email addresses if they are deemed unwanted. For example, a user who wearies of unstoppable emails from a particular address may blacklist that address, and the email client will automatically route all messages from that address to a junk-mail folder or delete them without notifying the user.