Why It’s Called Spam: The most plausible explanation comes from www.spam.com, a good-humored Website owned by Hormel Foods. “Use of the term ‘spam’ was adopted as a result of he Monty Python skit in which a group of Vikings sang a chorus of ‘SPAM, SPAM, SPAM…’ in an increasing crescendo, drowning out other conversation,” the site explains. “Hence, the analogy applied because unsolicited commercial e-mail was drowning out normal discourse on the Internet.” (CFO 4/03)
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