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For spam on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Spam and Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam
Spam originally referred to SPAM, a canned meat product sold by the Hormel Foods Corporation. Since then, many other uses of the term have emerged, all of which may be traced back to the food.
  • Spam (Monty Python), a comedy sketch. The "Spam" in the sketch refers specifically to the meat. This sketch is considered to be the most likely source of other, primarily technological, uses of the term.
  • Spam (electronic), unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages. There are many types of electronic spam, including
*E-mail spam, unsolicited e-mail.
*Forum spam, posting advertisements or useless posts on a forum.
*Spamdexing, manipulating a search engine to create the illusion of popularity for webpages.
*Spam in blogs, posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks.
*Newsgroup spam, advertisement and forgery on newsgroups.
*Messaging spam ("SPIM"), use of instant messenger services for advertisement or even extortion.
  • Spam (computer game), to repeatedly use one weapon or tactic. This term is based on the technological meaning of undesired bulk electronic message.
  • Flyposting ("street spam"), illegal blanket advertising in public places.
  • "Spam" (song), a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
SPAM luncheon meat is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. The labeled ingredients in the Classic variety of Spam are: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite to help "keep its color".
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Hormel Foods Corporation

Public (NYSE:  HRL )
Founded 1891
Headquarters Austin, Minnesota

Industry Foods
Products Deli meat, Ethnic foods, Pantry foods, Spam
Revenue $5.41 billion USD (2006)
Website www.hormel.
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"Spam" is a popular Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish.
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Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search
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E-mail spam, also known as bulk e-mail or junk e-mail is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE).
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Spamdexing is any of various methods to manipulate the relevancy or prominence of resources indexed by a search engine, usually in a manner inconsistent with the purpose of the indexing system.[1] It is a form of search engine optimization.
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For blogs that are built only for spamming, see Spam blog.


Spam in blogs (also called simply blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamdexing.
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Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups.

Spamming of Usenet newsgroups actually pre-dates e-mail spam. The first widely recognized Usenet spam (though not the most famous) was posted on January 18, 1994 by Clarence L.
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Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam targeting users of instant messaging services.

The increase in messaging spam may be motivated by its rise in popularity as well as the many steps to crack down on spamming since the late 1990s.
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Spam is a computer game phenomenon prevalent in FPS but also strongly present in many other game genres. Generally, it refers to the repeated, rapid use of an item, weapon or unit.
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Flyposting is the act of placing advertising posters or flyers in illegal places. In the U.S., these posters are known as bandit signs, snipe signs, or street spam.
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UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff (1989), sometimes referred to simply as UHF, is the soundtrack to the comedy cult film UHF, by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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