Spam
n : (trademark) a tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork
[syn: Spam]

From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) :

spam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1. To crash a
program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input
data. See also buffer overflow, overrun screw, smash the stack. 2.
To cause a newsgroup to be flooded with irrelevant or inappropriate
messages. You can spam a newsgroup with as little as one well- (or ill-)
planned message (e.g. asking "What do you think of abortion?" on
soc.women). This is often done with cross-posting (e.g. any message
which is crossposted to alt.rush-limbaugh and alt.politics.homosexuality
will almost inevitably spam both groups). This overlaps with troll
behavior; the latter more specific term has become more common. 3. To
send many identical or nearly-identical messages separately to a large
number of Usenet newsgroups. This is more specifically called `ECP',
Excessive Cross-Posting. This is one sure way to infuriate nearly
everyone on the Net. See also velveeta and jello. 4. To bombard a
newsgroup with multiple copies of a message. This is more specifically
called `EMP', Excessive Multi-Posting. 5. To mass-mail unrequested
identical or nearly-identical email messages, particularly those
containing advertising. Especially used when the mail addresses have
been culled from network traffic or databases without the consent of the
recipients. Synonyms include UCE, UBE. 6. Any large, annoying,
quantity of output. For instance, someone on IRC who walks away from
their screen and comes back to find 200 lines of text might say "Oh no,
spam".

The later definitions have become much more prevalent as the Internet
has opened up to non-techies, and to most people senses 3 4 and 5 are
now primary. All three behaviors are considered abuse of the net, and
are almost universally grounds for termination of the originator's email
account or network connection. In these senses the term `spam' has gone
mainstream, though without its original sense or folkloric freight -
there is apparently a widespread myth among lusers that "spamming" is
what happens when you dump cans of Spam into a revolving fan. Hormel,
the makers of Spam, have published a surprisingly enlightened position
statement (http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm) on the Internet usage.

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SPAM

Send Phenomenal Amounts of Mail (Usenet, EMP, slang)

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