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

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:05 AM -0700 Kelson <kelson at speed.net> wrote:

> Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>>> Where did DECnet pick up the term?
>> From Monty Python's Spamalot/SpamSPAMspamSpam & Eggs.
>
> ...which brings us back to "spam" having its origins in negative
> commentary on "SPAM."
>
> Or at least negative commentary on an *excess* of SPAM.

Now if MP had chosen another product for the skit's song (perhaps not even 
food), what else could we be calling UBE today? :)

As a kid in low-middle income household, I was served SPAM (ick) as 
"economy food" when money ran low, and I suspect the meme of SPAM as cheap 
bulk food is shared by many. The single-syllable name also helps make it 
easy to use an an all-purpose noun/verb.