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...Hormel Foods Corporation was understandably disappointed in the choice of the word “spam?? to describe unsolicited commercial e-mail back when that decision was popularized without ceremony in the late 1990s. Naturally, the producer of SPAM?? Luncheon Meat (Hormel recommends writing the name of their product in this way to keep intentions clear) wanted to avoid an association between their celebrated canned spiced ham product and the worthless artificially-fabricated garbage that stuffs your inbox...
Actually, the application of that term to junk e-mail has its roots in a 1970 Monty Python sketch about the food, at the conclusion of which members of the troupe sang the word “SPAM?? with increasing intensity until it drowned out all other meaningful conversation in the room—the theory being that this is exactly what such messages are doing to the e-mail institution as a whole...
...sent a long tirade, over the House list, which relegated the daily Black history month facts that a fellow member of the Lowell House community had been sending over the House e-mail list to “blatant spam,” “complete and utter spam?? and messages that are “tangentially related” to the Lowell House community (News, “Accusations Fly in Debate Over Use of Lowell Open,” March 3). This e-mail was followed by other students’ postings that further conveyed...
After students on the Lowell House open e-mail list denounced messages on black history as “spam?? last week, others responded with accusations of racism, and a flurry of more than 60 messages ensued...
...seconds. I thought that part of the Internet’s appeal was the websurfer’s ability to bypass things like commercial interruptions. Of course, these new digital “advances” are in addition to those incessant pop-up ads and “spam?? e-mails we’ve already come to endure...