Spam, that's promotions sent via email, something nearly nobody wants to receive. About one out of thousand (or less) is interested, clicks the mentioned link and orders, what ever they try to sell. All the others are more or less worried, discard the rubbish or install filters and filter programs.
This is what also the spammers note, the companies sending the rubbish. That's why they find more and more tricks to avoid filters and all the defenses built up by receivers to reach that small amount of happy - or clueless - customers.
Just this wasn't reason enough to write an extra website about it. 'cause why should I care: I run a private website mainly presenting my holiday pictures and apart from that I do my job as a computer trainer. But I do have friends in Australia and once I write them mails they travel via Japan, China and Korea. This is exactly the part of the world where some of the really big spammers sit. And especially for the Japanese a domain like koys.de is fairly suitable. Koi is another word for the big expensive colored carps they breed in Japan. And they are a symbol for manhood, wealth and happyness - just what it takes to sell penis enlargement & Co. And this is one of the main problems sending emails in general: they travel in a virtual envelope and anyone can write any sender one fancys on the envelope. If you want to pretend you were george.w.bush@whitehouse.gov, just go ahead. There is nothing Mr. Bush could do to prevent it. Just like I cannot keep Japanese spammers from abusing koys.de as sender's address.
Apart from angry emails and telephone calls on my phone it also gets my provider in difficulties. It is none of the big ones in biz and got serious problems since october 2003. Many emails filters send the rubbish back to who seems to be sender, or better: the one specified as sender on the virtual envelope. Some other sender's emails aren't valid anymore, so also these mails travel back to the 'sender'. That's why my mailserver, who daily has to deal with my 10 or 15 mails, receives another load of a million some days. All these are only bounces, spam that didn't reach the recipient - now it reached me. A single mailserver cannot deal with all of that: now it's three all busy with the crap somebody else sends from Japan abusing my name. I have to mention that, because some of the people writing my angry mails do think, if the rubbish doesn't come from me personally, it anyway must be sent from my server. It mustn't and it isn't - the equipment is simply unable do send the billion emails roaming the internet. My pretty desperate provider does checks sometimes and found the spams are sent by at least 500 different computers and I can't stop any of them.
That's why I dearly ask to abstain from any more complaints and angry telephone calls. If you try to put me to the court it'll only create costs for you, as any professional server administrator will tell you instantly I was the wrong one. If we could turn off this nightmare, my provider and I were the first ones to press the button.
May the favoured piece of these spammers slowly and painfully rot away!