why on earth is spam mail called spam?
2007-01-10 02:04:56 · 16 answers · asked by Angelic 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Named after the inventor sir Spamwald Spammingham. (Serious)
2007-01-10 02:14:04 · answer #1 · answered by G.T 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's named after the Monty Python Spam sketch
2007-01-10 02:09:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name comes from the Monty Python song...spam, spam, spam ,spam.
2007-01-10 02:09:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is named after a Monty Python SPAM sketch
2007-01-10 02:13:41 · answer #4 · answered by GEMINI 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dunno but imagine the am stands for "automated mail/mailings". It's obviously no coincidence that the name is SPAM - just like an organisation representing smokers calls itself ASH etc. ie it isn't just a random selection of letters - that answer about Sales Purchasing and Marketing sounds good but I'd suggest it was applied AFTER the word was invented rather than being the origin of it
2007-01-10 02:16:20 · answer #5 · answered by big pup in a small bath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows for sure, but one suggestion is that it comes from an old Monty Python skit featuring the incessant repetition of the word "spam".
2007-01-10 02:11:50 · answer #6 · answered by donkeehotay999 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a Monty Python sketch about vikings in a cafe.
We've got spam, spam, spam or spam.
Spam, spam, spam, spam.
Spam, spam, spam, spam,
What do we want ?
SPAM !
2007-01-10 02:16:24 · answer #7 · answered by Handsome 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the meat (spam) is made from an assortment of animal parts that you would never want in your life
2007-01-10 04:30:08 · answer #8 · answered by jlbudweiser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well cuz spam taste mingin and spam mail sucks so its like spam
2007-01-10 02:09:57 · answer #9 · answered by NP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unsolicited mail is one of those tinned meat. it really is short for "spiced ham". in spite of the undeniable fact that, in modern years "unsolicited mail" has taken on a diverse meaning. keep in options the Monty Python caricature many years in the past on television? In a cafe, purchasers were served unsolicited mail (the beef) with each little thing. So, unsolicited mail took on an total new meaning - being inundated with some thing you do not pick. "unsolicited mail" appeared the obtrusive be conscious for a good number of undesirable unsolicited e-mail! at present, the time period "unsolicited mail" is so effortless that it really is listed contained in the dictionary. there's a distinction, in spite of the undeniable fact that. unsolicited mail the beef, is written with top case "S". e-mail unsolicited mail is written with decrease case "s".
2016-12-28 14:59:05 · answer #10 · answered by tougas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋