Spam Query

[Kitiara]

Seriously... Why is email spam and forum spam etc called 'spam'? I'm dead curious about this one.

Enquiring minds etc etc... :)

[senocular]

Spam refers to a Monty Python skit, where vikings sing "Spam" at a lady who floats down from the ceiling in a restaurant where they serve spam with everything. The verb "to spam" would be to send lots and lots of useless information (in particular, the word "spam") over and over to someone, thus scrolling their screen with lots and lots of lines of "spam spam spam spam spam spam" etc. It has been generalized to mean sending lots of junk to servers as well as people you want to annoy the heck out of though has more recently been associated with over commecialization or advertizements of comerical products mainly in email.

:)

[Soul]

The man in the know

[kode]

LOL @ sen :P

Is there anything you don't know!? :P

[senocular]

I don't know why God lets bad things happen to good people :-\



:P

[Soul]

Perhaps they're secretly bad, or after bad things have happened theres lots of good things for the good people.

[Kitiara]

I'm well acquainted with the Monty Python sketch (I have the videos / scripts at home). :) It was more whether this was where it came from, and who first thought of using it... :)

Cool though, thanks Sen. :)

[Soul]

(By the way there isn't a god)

[senocular]

I think it originated in MUDs and found its way to USENET and then email

you know how those computer nerds are with their computers and their python ;)





:run:

[Kitiara]

Hehe, no comment methinks. :P

We were just a bit curious at work - someone's mailbox was full of spam, and they raised the question of why we call it that. :)

[asphaltcowboy]

Dont you remember the Spam Song I played you over shoutCAST kit? ;)

[Kitiara]

Of course I do! :beam:

My dad can recite the entire series verbatim, so I kind of grew up with Python humour. :)

[BadMagick]

The idea of the Monty Python skit is true, and you can find out information about the first spam and more on this web site:
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html

[pinx]

Originally posted by senocular
I don't know why God lets bad things happen to good people :-\



:P


here's my take on that one. there is no god, he's made up to make us all feel better about ourselves. so basically bad things just happen. **** happens.

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by pinx
here's my take on that one. there is no god, he's made up to make us all feel better about ourselves. so basically bad things just happen. **** happens. I think we should rename pinx, 'happy pinx' :P

[I am the Noah]

Yup, the monty python thing is all true... my mom and dad started calling annoying stuff spam after they saw that show :P