On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:07:34AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:00:36PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > Hi, Wouter: > > El Lunes, 05 Septiembre 2005 19:52, Wouter Verhelst escribió: > > [...] > > > "spam", as in, unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular > > > brand of corned beef. See http://www.spam.com/ > > Not exactly. Spam, as unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular > > Monty Python's Flying Circus show. It is Monty Python the ones that used > > spam after the canned meat. It might probe to be a significant difference if > > held in court. > Well, yeah; I read the story on the spam site, too. The point is that > the origin of the 'spam' name is corned beef, even if indirectly. I think you mean "spiced ham"... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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