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Administrators are also concerned that "spam," junk or advertising mail sent out to a wide audience, would become a nuisance to students...
...endlessly at the library--Montana newspapers (the librarian did not subscribe to out-of-state papers), books in Spanish and German (usually borrowed from other libraries), issues of Scientific American and Omni. Once a month or so, he would visit the grocery store and load staples into his backpack: Spam and canned tuna and flour. He was strange, the townspeople said, but no stranger than others who had come to hide at the end of the world...
...heard about "spam"--Internet jargon for machine-generated junk mail--and over the years I'd received my share of E-mail chain letters, get-rich-quick pitches and cheesy magazine ads. But I had never experienced anything like this: a parade of mail that just got bigger and bigger, like Mickey's brooms in Fantasia. Not only was I getting hundreds of subscription notices, but I was also receiving copies of every piece of mail posted to those lists. By Monday the E-mail was pouring in at the rate of four a minute, 240 an hour...
...mail advertisement, which listed the date, location and ticket-purchasing information for the concert, is what Internet users call a "Spam," junk or advertising mail sent out to a wide audience...
Fall is gone; winter comes soon, and a freezing rain. And as your wife fixes a casserole of Spam and pineapples and hashbrowns, you go out to put salt on your sidewalk and slip, your arms waving like windmills, and something in your lower back twists loose, and you never attend the opera again. You spend the rest of your life in search of pain relief and wind up in India, penniless, lying on a mat at the Rama Lama Back Clinic, as the Master's disciple places the sacred banana on your back--ice can do this...