On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:00:36PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > Hi, Wouter: > > El Lunes, 05 Septiembre 2005 19:52, Wouter Verhelst escribió: > [...] > > "spam", as in, unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular > > brand of corned beef. See http://www.spam.com/ > > Not exactly. Spam, as unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular > Monty Python's Flying Circus show. It is Monty Python the ones that used > spam after the canned meat. It might probe to be a significant difference if > held in court.
Well, yeah; I read the story on the spam site, too. The point is that the origin of the 'spam' name is corned beef, even if indirectly. I couldn't care less what lawyers have to say about it. -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely one bananosecond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
