[Mimedefang] spam now a registered trademark for downloadable software by Hormel

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:24 PM -0500 Charles Mount <cmount at csc.com> 
wrote:

> You have to remember that using the term spam to refer to unwanted email
> and ham to refer to wanted email is basically a put-down of the Hormel
> product SPAM.   It is clear that the email term is a reference to their
> product, not an independently arrived at term.
> To Hormel this is a severe threat to their brand-name recognition and
> reputation.

A check of the "spam" page at Wikipedia leads to this article on the term's 
etymology:

<http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html>