anti-spam
spam
verb[ T ]
 ITuk /spæm/us-mm-
to send someone an advertisement that they do not want by email:
He spammed the message to 30,000 addresses in a week.

Examples of spam

spam
A system can be trained to recognize spam messages and delete them or store them at a special place for later scanning.
The first tries to identify spam mail by the key word cash in the mail subject.
Most applications here are adaptive spam filters and document classification.
So, for example, consider a computer program that is designed to learn to classify e-mails as spam or non-spam.
Disruptive knowledge or 'semantic spam' will also need to be dealt with.
We could then use a corpus of e-mail messages, each marked as to their spam status, to train the weights appropriately.
False positives - spam that makes it through the filter - are quickly dealt with, and increase the accuracy of the filter with each use.
One type is adaptive spam filters that learn to recognize spam from classified e-mail messages.
In this approach, f can be assumed to be rather noise-free, as long as we want to discriminate spam from non-spam.
In this domain, the classification tasks to be tackled are twofold: filtering spam is a binary decision, while pre-ordering of mails into existing folders is a more sophisticated learning task.
As high as the accuracy is, the very cautious can examine the "junk" before deleting it, just in case a wanted message has been incorrectly designated spam.
In relation to spam, the proposals introduced the possibility for internet service providers to take legal action against spammers.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The whole idea of opt-in has been put forward as the solution to end spam.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Unfortunately, the proposal bit the dust, but it would have allowed people to edit spam from their inbox.
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