[at-l] about that SPAM...

[Eddy]

hey, hey  be nice.
   
  anyone seen the spam in the foil pouch....Wally world and Krogers have it
   
  Eddy

krozby <krozby9516 at peoplepc.com> wrote:
  Does that mean that the food product with the name SPAM means "shit posing 
as meat"

> SPAM is a backronym that means "shit posing as mail."
>
> Here's a bit of it's history from Wikipedia...
>
> The term spam is derived from the Monty Python SPAM sketch, set in a cafe
> where nearly every item on the menu includes SPAM luncheon meat. As the
> server recites the SPAM-filled menu, a chorus of Viking patrons drowns out
> all conversations with a song repeating "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM... lovely
> SPAM, wonderful SPAM," hence "SPAMming" the dialogue. The excessive amount
> of SPAM mentioned in the sketch is a reference to British rationing during
> World War II. SPAM was one of the few foods that was not restricted and 
> was
> therefore widely available.
>
> Although the first known instance of unsolicited commercial e-mail 
> occurred
> in 1978 (unsolicited electronic messaging had already taken place over 
> other
> media, with the first recorded instance being via telegram on September 
> 13,
> 1904), the term "spam" for this practice had not yet been applied. In the
> 1980s the term was adopted to describe certain abusive users who 
> frequented
> BBSs and MUDs, who would repeat "SPAM" a huge number of times to scroll
> other users' text off the screen. In the early Chat rooms in services like
> PeopleLink and the early days of AOL, they actually flooded the screen 
> with
> sizeable quotes from the Monty Python routine. This was generally used as 
> a
> tactic by insiders of a particular group who wanted to drive newcomers out
> of the room so the usual conversation could continue. This act, previously
> termed flooding or trashing, came to be called spamming as well. [8] By
> analogy, the term was soon applied to any large amount of text broadcast 
> by
> one user, or sometimes by many users.
>
> It later came to be used on Usenet to mean excessive multiple posting-the
> repeated posting of the same message. The first evident usage of this 
> sense
> was by Joel Furr in the aftermath of the ARMM incident of March 31, 1993, 
> in
> which a piece of experimental software released dozens of recursive 
> messages
> onto the news.admin.policy newsgroup. Soon, this use had also become
> established-to spam Usenet was to flood newsgroups with junk messages.
>
> Commercial spamming started in force on March 5, 1994, when a pair of
> lawyers, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, began using bulk Usenet 
> posting
> to advertise immigration law services. The incident was commonly termed 
> the
> "Green Card spam", after the subject line of the postings. The two went on
> to widely promote spamming of both Usenet and e-mail as a new means of
> advertisement-over the objections of Internet users they labeled
> "anti-commerce radicals." Within a few years, the focus of spamming (and
> antispam efforts) moved chiefly to e-mail, where it remains today. [9]
>
> There are three popular fake etymologies of the word "spam". The first,
> promulgated by Canter & Siegel themselves, is that "spamming" is what
> happens when one dumps a can of SPAM luncheon meat into a fan blade. The
> second is the backronym "shit posing as mail." The third is similar, using
> "stupid pointless annoying messages."
>
> Hormel Foods Corporation, the makers of SPAM luncheon meat, do not object 
> to
> the Internet use of the term "spamming." However, they do ask that the
> capitalized word "SPAM" be reserved to refer to their product and 
> trademark.
> [10] By and large, this request is obeyed in forums which discuss spam-to
> the extent that to write "SPAM" for "spam" brands the writer as a n00b.
> However, Hormel has begun to press the trademark issue-first, when a firm
> registered the trademark "SpamArrest" in 2003, Hormel sued to invalidate 
> the
> mark,[11] , and more recently two failed attempts to revoke the mark
> "spambuster".[12], [13]
>
>
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