Spam

The original, which is content to taste terrible and isn't out to steal your personal information

Someone is wrong on
The Internet

Log in:

* Landover Baptist Church
* Yahoo! News
* Nsnbc.me
* Christians for Michele Bachmann
* Electronic Frontier Foundation
* Resett.no
* DCinside
* Wiki
* Telegram (software)
* Great Firewall of China
* Pepe the Frog
* Hereticon

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“”For some algorithmic reason beyond my ability to understand or control, I cannot escape Dr. Ron Paul. I did something inadvertently that led Dr. Ron Paul and his business partners to believe that I wanted to sample his loon-ness and perhaps pay for it. Nothing could be less true. He might as well be Dr. Spam who also visits my email addresses regularly.

—David Rutter[1]

Mobile phone-based spam in Vietnamese

Spam is unsolicited commercial email, commercial phone text message, or inappropriately added commercial text in a wiki page usually sent out in bulk to an indiscriminate recipient list. From the perpetrator's perspective, it is the art of forcing everyone else to look at the perp's stupid advertisement and hoping some of them are stupid enough to reply to it or follow the call to action provided such as "click the link."

Spam tends to help promote political conspiracy theories ("OBAMA FAKES ASSASSINATION, COMING FOR YOUR GUNS?!") and marketable pseudoscience ("NEW HERB INCRESES PENIS BY ~~8~~ ~~10~~ 15 INCHES?!").

## Contents

* 1 The food
* 2 See also
* 3 External links
* 4 Notes
* 5 References

## The food[edit]

Most spam is loathsome, but the original Spam®[note 1] is highly prized in some places such as Hawaii, where it is now regularly stolen by low-level criminals.[3] There's an urban legend that Spam is popular among cannibals because it supposedly tastes like human flesh, but this appears to be a hoax originating from a joke by writer Paul Theroux.[4]

## See also[edit]

* Clickbait — the webpage-based form of spam
* Monty Python — the source of the term
* Gish Gallop — debate tactic that works like spam
* NaturalNews and mirror sites — banned on Facebook and blacklisted from Wikipedia due to spamming
* Search engine optimization
* Fun:Clickbait
* Fun:Spam generator

## External links[edit]

* A history of spam on the internet, We're in Hell

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ Which doesn't appear to be an acronym of anything, contrary to popular belief, but there are rumors it's short for "spice and ham", "shoulder of pork and ham", or "scientifically processed animal matter"[2]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Rutter: He's trying to escape what Dr. Paul sells
2. ↑ A Brief History of Spam, an American Meat Icon, Erin DeJesus, Eater 9 July 2014
3. ↑ Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular ‘mystery meat’ in locked cases by Fred Barbash (October 19, 2017 at 4:47 AM) The Washington Post.
4. ↑ Hawaii's Dubious Food Distinction, Denby Fawcett, Huffington Post 3 December 2013

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