How did the word “spam” get used for junk mass email?
I imagine the Hormel people don’t like their meat product associated with something bad. Isn’t Spam trademarked?
My former ISP decided to “partner” with Yahoo. Whether we liked it or not, our email automatically became Yahoo email. In the previous three years of having those email addresses, not once did I get any spam. The very day the “partnership” went into effect I began receiving 50-100 in each box. Yahoo had their so-called “spam filters” but there would only be 1 or 2 in there each day, with the rest of the up to 100 in my regular mail. Curiously, many of the up to 100 in my regular mail were identical to ones in my bulk mail, so why did those 1 or 2 get caught while identical ones slipped by the filters?
Anyway, I switched ISPs and when they asked why they got a real earful.
I dont get any spam at all every in my Yahoo account. But then I never use it.-- its active however.
Arg! I get those septic tank ones two or three times a day. Since the email address is blank (they put in MAILDELIVERy@SYNTAX ERROR), it cant be blocked or noted as spam and sent to the bulk mail folder. I use my yahoo for commerce and contests, and have a secret private no one knows but family address for real emails.
When my ex and I were together, he was into direct marketing and data mining. What a crock. if they mined data even one inch, theyd know I dont have a penis, nor do I want a larger one. And I live in an apartment!
According to their website, Hormel is OK with the term “spam” being used to refer to as junk e-mail, due to the Monty Python origin and because “spam” is always in lower-case. The name of the SPAM product is capitalized. (However, they do object to boxes of SPAM appearing in articles about spam.)