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Stupid, Persistent, Annoying Messages?
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Will Hamm
Aurora, CO
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Sandy Padula & Norm Pa...
, CA
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Inna Ivchenko
Encino, CA
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Michael Setunsky
Woodbridge, VA
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Barbara Todaro
Franklin, MA
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Stop Pretending And Manipulating...SPAM
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Richard Alan Naggar
Riverside, CA
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Sandy Padula & Norm Pa...
, CA
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Barbara Todaro
Franklin, MA
1,317,763
Hint; There is a Monty Python connection according to google.
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Ryan Huggins - Thousan...
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
1,759,737
Spam is manufactured from an otherwise worthless meat by-product; hence the term.
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Richard Weeks
Dallas, TX
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Barbara Todaro
Franklin, MA
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You've only to look at Monty Python for the answer!
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Jessie Cochran
Panama City, FL
3,988,144
It is a perfect acronym for a totally unwanted piece of email that you cannot swallow or digest.
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Richard Weeks
Dallas, TX
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1,547,124
I've always been told it was because of the SPAM skit by Monty Python.
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Peter Mohylsky,
Inlet Beach, FL
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Not sure exactly but the Can-Spam Act of 2003 stands for - Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act.
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Peter Mohylsky,
Inlet Beach, FL
5,585,039
all good answers here...I like Sandy Padula and Norm Padula, JD, GRI NMLS#1483386 (Norman's answer...)
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Sandy Padula & Norm Pa...
, CA
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It must be an acronym for something - and the "A" is for "annoying!
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Barbara Todaro
Franklin, MA
5,206,187
Because it's unwanted, just like the "meat" SPAM? I think of them as short, pointless, annoying messages. Seems to me that's one of the acronyms I have seen
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Barbara Todaro
Franklin, MA
6,775,772
Always enjoy the spam skit on Monty Python, but I can do without the product and the internet spam.
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232,119
Monty python had skit they did before the internet was popular ad email was just becoming popular - Spam, Spam, Spam...
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5,185,234
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I like the answer by Debbie Reynolds.
The real origin of the term comes from a 1970 Monty Python’s Flying Circus skit.
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Although a slam, I wonder if it raised the visibility/awareness of the canned meat product.
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Spam overtaking the menu, stop please stop!
BTW Hawaiians LOVE SPAM but only the canned meat version
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Peter Mohylsky - now some of those acronyms expanded by our friends - I did not know...lol!
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1,683,918
I have no idea, but Internet spam and canned meat claim to be something they aren't.
1,269,775
The term spam really caught on in the 1990s when two US lawyers got hold of a script which allowed them to send an ad out promoting their services to thousands of newsgroups at once.
Whatever the true origin of spam, whoever invented the ability to send junk mail over the internet has a lot to answer for.
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Surprisingly I found 35 abbreviation meanings: http://www.acronymfinder.com/SPAM.html
Stupid, Pointless Annoying Message (folk etymology)
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