Bacn is email that you signed up to receive, while spam is unsolicited junk mail. Bacn can come from various sources and takes up space in your inbox, but usually comes with an unsubscribe option. It’s important to evaluate and unsubscribe from Bacn you no longer want.
Bacn, pronounced bacon, is an alternative to email spam. While both of these terms are food-based, they actually refer to different types of emails you may receive. Spam is unsolicited “junk mail” that appears in your inbox. You don’t want this stuff and as far as you know, you haven’t signed up for it, or you’ve given permission for the sender to send it to you. Spam includes fraudulent emails, unsolicited advertisements, and occasionally harmful viruses meant to wreak havoc on your computer.
On the other hand, Bacn — a term coined at Podcamp Pittsburg 2, a non-lecture bar camp held in August of 2007 — is the email you actually signed up to receive. Such emails could come from companies with which you are registered, even sales companies or retail outlets offering special details, newsgroups, blogs, social networks, or a variety of other sources. Unlike spam, which is usually not meant to be read, most people want to read their Bacn, eventually. But like spam, it’s a bit piggy and takes up a lot of space in your inbox, waiting for you to read it. Bacn in the box can lead to hundreds or thousands of unread messages and can hinder the search for those personal emails sent to you, which require a quicker reading and response.
You don’t always realize that you have signed up to receive Bacn. Sometimes you subscribe to a newsgroup or internet shop that actually subscribes to several. Bacn usually comes with an unsubscribe message if you don’t want to continue receiving emails. When you sign up to receive email from a company or newsgroup, there may be a box you can check to see if you would like to receive “more offers” from a company. If you want to prevent your email address from being passed around, make sure you check or uncheck this box so you don’t start receiving messages you don’t want.
As you may be trying to reduce clutter in your home, please evaluate the Bacn you get and whether you still want to receive it. If you haven’t read a single piece of Bacn from a newsgroup in a few months, maybe it’s something you don’t need to take up space in your inbox. Cut the fat by considering which mail you really want and get rid of unwanted or never-read emails by unsubscribing.
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