What is spam in all possible meanings?

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Spam
Is often described as unwanted email and Junk mail however this is not technically true...
Spam is the method of collecting an email address of the Internet to therefore advertise and send messages.
Hence the mail you get in your inbox is therefore unwanted.

Spam collection can be reduced by:

Not posting your email online
Using words not symbols i.e "at" not @...Show more

Spam is any kind of unwanted content received either electronically or by snail mail. There are different kinds of spam. When you getting catalogues and brochures in your mail box it is spam because you did not ask for it. Then you also have an SMS message spamming where you receiving huge amount of unwanted text messages to your cell phone. Telemarket can also be considered as spam. In the end, we have most common way of spamming and that is on the Internet via e-mail or instant messaging services....Show more

Substitute pork & meat and or superfulous, pestering, annoying mail.


The real truth :

The term spam is derived from the Monty Python SPAM sketch (see video in External Links), set in a cafe where nearly every item on the menu includes SPAM luncheon meat. As the server 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. The excessive amount of SPAM mentioned in the sketch is a reference to British rationing during World War II. SPAM was one of the few foods that was widely available....Show more

Spam is a cooked meat, normally sold in cans.
It smells like cat food.

It is also a term used for the mass advertising e-mails sent my dumb companies - a surprising number advertising viagra....Show more

spam is when you get email asking you to buy something or go somewhere or something like that....Show more