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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Feb 2000.

                            
    
    
Re: SPAM???
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: SPAM???

                    

                        From Ool <Ulr...@t-online.de>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 1 Feb 2000 00:00                                                    · View full thread
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Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.21.0001312323550.25779-100000@xena...
> On Yesterday, Galarza & Heredero wrote:

> : Hi, can anybody explain me what SPAM means????

> Originally the brand-name of a product still made by Hormel.
> The current usage, meaning "unsolicited commercial email" has a number
> of hotly contested origns:

> i) Possibly named because the effect of UCE is allegedly similar to
> what happens if you drop SPAM in a fan...

Is that mental image a common visual concept?  Because if it is I
wasn't aware of it when I created this mock advertising banner a few
years ago:

http://home.t-online.de/home/ulrich.schreglmann/images/$$$Q&EC$$$.gif


--
  __    "Muscles of All Limbs, Unite!
('__`>                      You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Sinews."
// ^(   �OOL mm
`\_-/   http://home.t-online.de/home/ulrich.schreglmann/images/00L.gif



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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Subject: Re: SPAM???
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