Email spam
The 'correct' term for email spam is Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE), though you'll see the term Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) used more often.

Spam is popular amongst the scammers, the multi-level marketing crowd and the porn pushers because it costs them so little to send. This is because they send it by stealing the resources of others.

Shunning.
At any one time the majority of spam comes from a few sites. By shunning them, refusing all articles from them the amount of spam drops.

Hunt the perpetrators down.
Complain to their upstream provider. Repeatedly get them shut down.  Get the servers, web pages and email addresses of the advertisers yanked. Report the illegal schemes to the local police.

There are three main
flavors of email spam

2. Spam sent using spamware - programs specifically designed to send huge amounts of email (up to 100,000 emails an hour) over an ordinary dialup internet connection.

"Spamware or spam-bot" are also designed to forge the email headers to deflect complaints away from the perpetrator, either towards the third-party or towards yet another innocent bystander. The load this puts on the third-party server can bring an ISP down for days.

"Spamware or spam-bot"--This software is designed to steal service from an innocent third party by relaying email through their server.
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