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Webcomic: Spammers!

SPAM!

Whether referring to the processed canned meat or the unsolicited email received every five minutes - the term itself makes everyone cringe.

This week’s webcomic focuses on both the canned meat and the annoying unsolicited messages version of spam.

While researching Spam for this week’s comic I found out that the term “Spamming” may have originated from the following Monty Python sketch:

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“It is widely believed the term spam is derived from the 1970 Monty Python SPAM sketch, set in a cafe where nearly every item on the menu includes SPAM luncheon meat. As the waiter 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…
…flooding Usenet newsgroups and individuals’ email with junk mail advertising messages was named spamming, recounting the repetitive and unwanted presence of Spam in the sketch.”

info from here and here.

Check out the Webcomic here: http://www.spacebooger.com/index.php?comicID=45

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