# First European anti-spam day to be held this month

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/05/12/first-european-antispam-day-be-held-month/
- Published: 2003-05-12T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The first anti-spam ‘Dunk the Junk Day’ takes place on 22 May 2003 and aims to raise
public awareness of spam or unsolicited commercial e-mail.
The campaign day is being
supported by Web portal Yahoo! It will include an awards event at which the UK’s
worst spammers will be named and shamed.

While one might assume the public had a fairly high awareness of spam, given e-mail
users’ complaints about the rubbish filling their inboxes, the campaign is a little
more sophisticated. Spam sadly is in the mind of the receiver, in that some people
will happily buy products from a spammer or will forward “humorous” spam to friends
and colleagues.

Yahoo’s involvement follows its first ‘spam appreciation’ week in March 2003 when
it tried to define spam to its users.

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