In the message I received, "John A. Lind" writes:
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>Ummmm . . . the Lobster Thermadore . . . was "borrowed" from a notoriously
>famous Monty Python sketch script. That sketch *is* the etymology of the
>name "SPAM" being used to describe unsolicited junk email.
[Insert Viking chorus here ...][1]
>In the Good Ole Days prior to commercialization of the Internet (thank you
>Al Gore), SPAM was something a little different.
Hormel Foods Corporation, the owners of the SPAM(tm) are fine with
people using that word to describe UCE/UBE as long it's not in capital
letters.
> It usually consisted of
>flooding someone as rapidly as possible with a continuous stream of long,
>garbage emails to overrun their inbound mailbox and consume all their
>authorized mail storage, and then some.
I believe it was called mail-bombing. Times were better then. :-)
Saso
[1] http://frogstar.com/wav/displaywav.asp?fil=spam.wav
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