Sunday, May 16, 2004
Spam, spam wonderful spam
I cleared 125 spam messages out of my inbox today. This is actually a reduction because it represents all spam received since last Friday. Yesterday's logs show 186 rejections.
A post on the BBC message boards prompted me to do some research on the etymology of SPAM (the canned meat). Everybody knows that the usage of spam to refer to junk e-mail comes from the Monty Python sketch, but where does SPAM the meat get its name from? It turns out that the answer is a bit complicated as you can see by following the link which is to the Wikipedia entry for SPAM.
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A post on the BBC message boards prompted me to do some research on the etymology of SPAM (the canned meat). Everybody knows that the usage of spam to refer to junk e-mail comes from the Monty Python sketch, but where does SPAM the meat get its name from? It turns out that the answer is a bit complicated as you can see by following the link which is to the Wikipedia entry for SPAM.
Link
# posted by JeremyP : 4:03 pm
