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Spam defined 1. A canned food product consisting mainly of pork formed into a solid block. 2. Unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with commercial content, sent in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients.
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"Spam" is one of the very first terms any newbie to the Internet learns the definition of, yet so few of us know how the term originated. Originally, SPAM got its name from a 1936 contest sponsored by Hormel owner Jay C. Hormel, who wanted a name as distinctive as the taste of his new meat product. Kenneth Daigneau, an actor and the brother of a Hormel vice president, came up with the name SPAM by taking the "Sp" from spiced and "am" from ham. His creativity won him the $100 prize. Today, SPAM is killing business productivity by flooding inboxes with junk mail. Spam is an escalating problem that affects internet service companies and consumers, filling mail servers and mailboxes with junk mail ranging from enticements for pornographic Web sites to burn-fat and grow-hair scams. But why is this called Spam? The term "spam" goes back to the very earliest day of Computer Bulletin Boards. In the very early days of the first PC's, the old 8086's and Apple II's and such, were stand-alone personal computers that usually had a single phone line coming into the system (thus limiting online usage to one User at a time), They ran early bulletin board software, the first baby steps of what would evolve into the Web, where users could publicly post messages and send in-house email to other registered users of that particular machine.
users discovered that by sending several emails to the same person, it would fill up their mail box for the day and prevent them from posting any more messages. During this time, there was a Monty Python's Flying Circus" comedy skit which was being shown in heavy rotation in most of the public TV stations around the country, where the punchline was a single word used at least a hundred times during a three-minute bit, yes you guessed it, "spam", and because of the embracing of the 'Pythons by the early ''nerd'' community, such a deliberate abuse of sending quantities of email became known as "spamming someone", and eventually, just "spam", much to the dismay of Hormel, the makers of the real Spam. CC Agency has recently teamed up with MX logic to offer the most aggressive spam filtering solutions in the industry. To find out more, call CC Agency today! To view this Monty Python skit that helped define Spam, visit CCAgency.net and click on the Monty Python Spam link.
Eventually, these users figured out how to chain-link their respective machines into the first primitive networks where one machine would act as host to several machines in its area and then once a day the hubs would call each other and exchange message packets (emails) which were limited to 10 per day. At times, a public and private exchange of opinions would become heated, and
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