Spam
Spam
Spam is any mass sending of unsolicited electronic messages which creates annoyance, disruption, deceit, or any otherwise harm to the recipient. Email is the most commonly recognized venue of spam, but other media such as chat rooms, blogs, online forums, mobile phone messaging, wiki sites, video-hosting websites, and social networks are susceptible to spam.
The word spam is derived from Spam[1] (uppercase), the name of the canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation, which was used in a popular 1970 Monty Python sketch[2] in which a restaurant's menu has Spam in nearly every selection and in which the script repeats the word "Spam" liberally. The consequent annoyance caused by this repetition in one character who dislikes Spam thus semantically mimics the annoyance electronic spam causes to recipients.
