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

[James Ebright]

Well, kindof,

Spam in the network sense from DECnet simply meant: "send data out to as many
nodes as fast as you can" and I assumed this is where the reference to UCE as
spam came from.

Now, considering the "ham" context, then yes, I can see how that reference
would be made and I would construe that the same way. But I think the term ham
came into use in this context much later than Spam/spam. As an ISP we labled
junk email as spam in late 1995, early 1996 timeframe or so, I know we have
blacklists from then.

Jim

On Tue, 24 May 2005 13:24:01 -0500, Charles Mount 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.


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