Spit is spam received through Internet telephony. As more people gravitate to making cheaper phone calls over the net, spit is poised to become a problem as big as spam. It will be easy for marketers to program their computer to send out spit in mass quantities, just as they now send out spam. Just as the National Do Not Call list is placing unwanted telephone messages under control, spit will soon infiltrate Internet telephony with a deluge of unsolicited and unwanted voicemail.

Spim is spam received through Instant Messaging. It has already become a problem. Researchers expect that approximately four billion messages will be sent to instant message users in 2005.

Although they have not created a name for this annoyance yet, cell phone users are receiving text messages, in alarming numbers, promoting viagra, get-rich schemes, and mortgage offers.

Spam, spit, spim…. Whatever name it goes by, is clogging Internet servers, consuming the precious time of computer users, costing businesses millions of dollars, and aggravating everyone. As of now, no end seems to be in sight. Devious marketers continue their exacerbating mass of messages. It looks like SPAM and all its spin-offs will continue to be a thorn in the side of all those who use computers, cell phones, and other new technologies for some time to come.