A "bounced email" is an undeliverable email. There are several reasons why an email can be bounced by either your mail server or the receiving server. The file size is too large, the mailbox is full, the server is down, the address was typed incorrectly - these are just a few of the possible reasons. If you send an email and it bounces, you will receive an email from the mail server telling you so, and often (usually in technical jargon) the reason it bounced. Some mail servers will automatically retry sending the email in a few hours for you - some will not. Depending on the reason given for the bounce, you may need to check the way you typed the address, carve up the attachment into smaller files, or find another way to send your information.
Unlike regular mail sent by the postal service, email is not totally private. In most countries, if you send an email from your work, your employer has the right to read it. There are ways to protect and keep email totally confidential. For that you need special software to encrypt the message.
Spam is a nice name for an email you did not ask for and do not really want. More often than not, spam emails are irritating, cheap, and tacky solicitations, broadcast to thousands of email addresses at a time without consent. If you have not seen any of the endless variations of these, you will. You are on a main spam artery when you start receiving requests:
Spam email got its name from the Monty Python comedy routine - the obnoxiously repetitive tribute in song to Hormel's canned meat product. Think of spam email the way you would cockroaches infesting your kitchen. You can wipe out one but the survivors continue to mutate and multiply. They just keep coming from somewhere else. Spam email has become so ubiquitous that it has become a verb - spamming someone.
The spam issue has gotten so invasive that a 2004 European Union estimate projected that it would cost businesses in Europe three billion dollars a year in lost production time to fight spam. In the U.S. and several European countries, governments have enacted laws to prevent unsolicited commercial email. In the U.S., a new law was approved at the end of 2003 to establish a national "do-not-spam" list similar to the anti-telemarketing "do-not-call" list already in place. It also imposes stiff jail sentences of up to five years in jail for email marketers to mask their identities by falsifying their return addresses. The European law makes it a crime to send emails or text messages unless the recipient has agreed in advance to accept them. Firms that continue to send junk mail face hefty fines and can even be sued by recipients.
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