# Pink contract

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{{Short description|Agreement between a spammer and their ISP}}
A '''pink contract''' is an agreement between an [email spammer](/source/E-mail_spam) and the spammer's [Internet service provider](/source/Internet_service_provider). The contract exempts the spammer from the provider's terms of service, which typically prohibit spamming. In return, the spammer pays far more [money](/source/money) for an internet connection than non-spammers.

The contract is called pink because that is the color of [SPAM](/source/Spam_(food)) (the food), alluding to the fact that the contract enables spamming. 
<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://catb.org/jargon/html/P/pink-contract.html |work=The Jargon File, version 4.4.7|title=Pink Contract Definition}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.spamcop.net/dict/Pink_Contract.html|work=SpamCop|title=Pink Contract|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510101723/http://forum.spamcop.net/dict/Pink_Contract.html|archivedate=2008-05-10}}</ref>

== References ==
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