How the Word SPAM came to mean Junk Message

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While some have suggested that this was because SPAM (as in the Hormel meat product) is sometimes satirized as “fake meat”, thus spam messages are “fake messages”, this potential origin, while plausible enough on the surface, turns out to be not correct at all.

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Sources:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=spam
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)
http://www.spamlaws.com/spam-stats.html
http://www.rackspace.com/apps/blog/2010/03/email_spam_facts/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitnet_Relay

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