Why is it called spam? Using the word “spam” to describe pesky messages came from the TV show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. A sketch in one of the episodes featured Vikings who passionately chant about Spam, the brand name for canned, processed meat. Their chants in the sketch became ...
Like so many patently American problems, our fealty to a certain economic system is partially to blame for the onslaught of spam calls. It’s no accident that many forms of robocalls, like those made by telemarketers or debt collectors, are perfectly legal.The Telephone Consumer Protection Act...
Why Spam is TrespassHansHermann Hoppe
The sending of unsolicited communications (commonly known as 'spam') is considered as a great intrusion into the privacy of the user of electronic communications services, and is therefore regulated in Article 13 of the ePrivacy directive. At the time of the adoption of the directive, the most...
Spam refers to both the process of sending unsolicited messages via the Internet, and to the messages themselves. However, the term "unsolicited messages" is open to debate, and as such what is considered spam varies widely. In the strictest sense, spam is any email advertisement, other than...
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People love SPAM so much, it's now a secured product behind the counters in some New York State retail locations.
My iCloud emails have been a bit glitchy lately and I’ve noticed the junk folder is now called spam on my iPhone. Is this a change in the latest update or something? It’s still called junk on my iPad but spam on my iPhone.....
Bill Gates famously said "two years from now, spam will be solved" back in 2004. It's now ten years later and more than 70% of emails are spam, according toKaspersky. Why is spam still such a problem? While spam may never be fixed as long as email is around, the situation has im...
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