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However, '''spam'' has now acquired a completely different meaning, as Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from to one episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, set in a cafe, which served dishes such as "Egg, spam, chips, spam, beans and spam", whichended with a soneg which went: "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text.
However, '''spam'' has now acquired a completely different meaning, as Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from to one episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, set in a cafe, which served dishes such as "Egg, spam, chips, spam, beans and spam", whichended with a soneg which went: "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text.
<ref> more on this at: http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html#2.1 </ref>
<ref> more on this at: http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html#2.1 </ref>
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 luncheon meat Spam:<Ref>For further details on what constitutes spam see http://spam.abuse.net/overview/whatisspam.shtml as well as most of this site.<ref>
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 luncheon meat Spam:<Ref>For further details on what constitutes spam see http://spam.abuse.net/overview/whatisspam.shtml as well as most of this site.</ref>
* Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.
* Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.