What Is S.P.A.M. an Abbreviation For?

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What Is S.P.A.M. an Abbreviation For?

Check this compiled list of various ideas as to what the acronym S.P.A.M. means. Here is our list:

Stupid Posts Are Meaningless

Stop Posting Annoying Messages

Stupid People Are Mandatory

Suckers Protesting Against Mules

Some People Are Morons

Stupid Person At Machine

Stupid Posters Advocating Maliciousness

Sexual Perverts And Moneygrabbers

Sad Person After Money

Some Parts Are Meat

SPiced hAM *

Squirrels, Possums And Mice

Strangled Parakeets Animal Manure

Satan Posing As Man

Seventy Percent Are Males


Sprinkling Possibility As Mail

The official meaning of SPAM in terms of the Internet is "Self Promotional Advertising Message."

 

[Princess_Aurora]

Sexual Perverts And Moneygrabbers

That should be the official acronym since that's what all junk mail is...porn and get-rich-quick schemes. All they want is your money. I hate spam!

 

[caitycaity]

i have never heard that spam was an acronym for anything. this is the etymology that i have always been told.

There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam:
Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.
No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree.
Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.

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