Sending unwanted email without permission. Posting comments in a blog strictly for a backlink. Using the same keywords over and over on a web page to gain an advantage with the search engines for that word. Generally look at your intent. If it is not noble it is probably spamming.
This has just made my day Generally I agree, I see spamming as any unwanted or exaggerated communication.
e-mail or blog or forum comments that are univited and off-topic. What puzzles me about e-mail spam is how much of it is counter productive. Chinese wholesalers harvested loads of email addresses by making fake registrations a couple of weeks ago, and as a result have been inundating people with hundreds of fake ebay messages. I can't work out what it's supposed to achieve. Send one or two and people might have been fooled, but when you get 20 a day claiming to be from different people but saying the same, obviously they're just going to be sent to a spam filter and/or deleted on sight.
Something similar happened to my dad. You really wouldn't believe, but he actually clicked the links.. only after he got the antivirus message, he started doubting it. I think it's more a matter of IT education/experience than anything else. There are always some people who'll fall for the spam. And it seems it's enough for the spammers to send millions of emails/day.
Pretty much any email that offers you viagra, diazipan, dating, increase the size of yoru man hood, popups that jump into your face with crap that wont go away.
unwanted emails. But now a days , it come down to "If you email someone without his consent. its spamming" There is very thin line which separates , spammer and genuine person. Like spammer will say Hi , This is my product go purchase it . Good webmaster will say Hi , I love your website w w w.xyz.com . Though black background you used must ne affecting your CTr Rates. My product can help you in getting better CTR . Go purchase my product from here w w.fgh.com
I told my friend I wanted to create an article with a "sensational" title so I could get on the front page of Digg. The article would be a parody of the articles written by a competitor's site, that are on the front of Digg EVERY week. My friend called me a spammer, even though I had no intention of sending the article to anyone, or Digging it myself. I think my friend has SPAM confused with LINKBAIT. Most people label anything they don't like as SPAM.