who's got a better sig than me?

Spam:
Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.

In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers.

There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam:

* Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.
* No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree.
* Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.



Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited, bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is also applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, and mobile phone messaging spam.

Spamming is economically viable because advertisers have effectively no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists. Because the barrier to entry is so low, the volume of unsolicited mail has produced other costs which are borne by the public (in terms of lost productivity and fraud) and by Internet service providers, which must add extra capacity to cope with the deluge. Spamming is widely reviled, and has been the subject of legislation in a number of jurisdictions.

Contents
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* 1 Spamming in different media
o 1.1 E-mail spam
o 1.2 Messaging spam
o 1.3 Newsgroup spam and Forum spam
o 1.4 Mobile phone spam
o 1.5 Internet telephony spam
o 1.6 Online game messaging spam
o 1.7 Spam targeting search engines (Spamdexing)
+ 1.7.1 Blog, wiki, guestbook, and referrer spam
* 2 Commercial uses
o 2.1 Comparison to postal "junk" mail
* 3 Noncommercial spam
o 3.1 Spam as denial of service
* 4 In Gaming
* 5 History
o 5.1 Alternate meanings
* 6 Costs of spam
* 7 Political issues
* 8 Court cases
* 9 Newsgroups
* 10 See also
o 10.1 Background
* 11 External links
o 11.1 Anti-spam organizations
o 11.2 Anti-spam articles and publications


go here to read it all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)

 

Back to the best sigs


Also known in England as Stella "actatwat" or "wifebeater"

 

Well.. I'm pretty sure i've got this signature contest won, considering mines the coolest

 

i was thinking to add this to me sig,music to calm ye all down..

it will be up just for just today..enjoy..

click here
http:// REMOVED BY IRELAND

note: this was done by a friend of mine..{lawman)

 

ireland
That was the British battle song when we went to defend the Falkland Islands

 

consul
the guy that did the mida is from england..

 

Mine...



If you like cars, mine from another forum. This is the muscle behind my 486 HP Buick Grand National...

 

sandt38
your sig pix is two tall

yours
384 x 200 pixels


Signatures

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1. Text-only signatures should have at most 5 lines of text.

2. An image-only signature should be less than 50kb in size, and be at most 500 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall.

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Violation of these rules does not lead to an immediate ban. However if requested user must edit his or her signature to fit these guidelines.

 

My sig is 200 pixels tall and 384 wide. The rule states no more than 200 pixels tall and 500 wide. I read the rule and shrank it to fit... Did I miss something? I sent you a PM.

 

sandt38
i had the numbers reversed 384 x 200 in my tired brain..
ye sig is ok..

 

Ireland,

OK cool. I kinda thought that was what happened

Lethal_B,

Kinda makes me feel like a dirty old man, but she certainly is.

 

When you find a sig that beats mine let me know.

 

rav009

check back later i fix ye sig so ye can be the winner..

remember its will be a joke pix...

 

Lol @Lethal and yeh, Lindsey Lohan is pretty damm hot..

@ireland, lol can't wait to see what you pull out of that collection of yours this time

 

rav009 is the winner of the sig contest,no need for others to post theres..

 

@rav009

Ireland has proclaimed the winner. I think you should use it for a while. I especially like the lipstick, it adds color. The target was sure easy to hit. LOL