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Re: Is that Spam?
Posted By: Howard, on host 72.155.122.84
Date: Friday, March 9, 2007, at 17:56:56
In Reply To: Re: Is that Spam? posted by Ticia on Friday, March 9, 2007, at 14:01:06:

> > > > I'll tell you what is Spam, though.
> > >
> > > Yes, the term "spam" for junk mail was named after the Monty Python sketch "spam, spam, eggs, and spam", which in turn was named after Spam.
> >
> > Maybe we could shorten it to "Pam." I knew a Pam once and she was someone I wouldn't mine insulting.
> >
> > I'm off to my inbox to delete some Pam.
> > Howard
>
> Ah, but then the cooking spray people will come after you.
>
> To me, this is as silly as Mac trying to tell people they can't use the word "PodCast" or similar, because Pod comes from iPod...

And the Mac people are guilty too. Didn't they steal that from McDonalds? It's enough to give you a Big Mac Attack.

But I'm almost serious about changing spam to jail. Junk mail becomes j-mail and that becomes jail. Sounds normal to me. Web log became blog easily enough.
Howard

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