No SPAM please! And who originated using the word “SPAM” to refer to unwanted email messages anyway? Mashable reports in their “10 Fascinating Facts About Email” that the “term spam is widely thought to have come from the above Monty Python sketch, where its incessant chanting by Vikings (naturally!) drowns out all meaning.
“These days, while the term refers to nuisance e-mail, it seems the phrase pre-dates e-mail as we know it, and has been traced back to online role playing chat rooms from the ’80s called MUDs. Generally, the term refers to any type of abusive online behavior.”
