I looked it up in all my dictionaries and I found nothing!
2007-02-13 05:12:04 · 9 answers · asked by Annietska 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
for those who replied meat etc, what more logical than an answer that has to do with computers? i`ve put my question in the computers & internet zone!
2007-02-13 05:34:30 · update #1
Spam
Is often described as unwanted email and Junk mail however this is not technically true...
Spam is the method of collecting an email address of the Internet to therefore advertise and send messages.
Hence the mail you get in your inbox is therefore unwanted.
Spam collection can be reduced by:
Not posting your email online
Using words not symbols i.e "at" not @
2007-02-13 05:17:53 · answer #1 · answered by Chεεrs [uk] 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spam is any kind of unwanted content received either electronically or by snail mail. There are different kinds of spam. When you getting catalogues and brochures in your mail box it is spam because you did not ask for it. Then you also have an SMS message spamming where you receiving huge amount of unwanted text messages to your cell phone. Telemarket can also be considered as spam. In the end, we have most common way of spamming and that is on the Internet via e-mail or instant messaging services.
2007-02-13 05:23:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Substitute pork & meat and or superfulous, pestering, annoying mail.
The real truth :
The term spam is derived from the Monty Python SPAM sketch (see video in External Links), set in a cafe where nearly every item on the menu includes SPAM luncheon meat. As the server recites the SPAM-filled menu, a chorus of Viking patrons drowns out all conversations with a song repeating "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM... lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM," hence "SPAMming" the dialogue. The excessive amount of SPAM mentioned in the sketch is a reference to British rationing during World War II. SPAM was one of the few foods that was widely available.
2007-02-13 05:17:20 · answer #3 · answered by isis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spam is a cooked meat, normally sold in cans.
It smells like cat food.
It is also a term used for the mass advertising e-mails sent my dumb companies - a surprising number advertising viagra.
2007-02-13 05:16:26 · answer #4 · answered by HP 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spam is when you get email asking you to buy something or go somewhere or something like that.
2007-02-13 05:15:25 · answer #5 · answered by acorna9898 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's garbage in all possible meanings.
2007-02-13 05:20:02 · answer #6 · answered by Irish 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a look at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spam
2007-02-13 05:14:41 · answer #7 · answered by Adam H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read more about it, including where the name "spam" originated, as used in electronic mail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)
2007-02-13 05:31:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
processed meat in a can
2007-02-13 05:15:07 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Bonanzas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have a wierd name.
2007-02-13 05:16:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋