thank you for the interesting bit of etymology... I never made the connection with drowning out discourse - I just thought it was a term of derision. Chalk up another one for the Pythons!
Patrick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 8:24 PM To: CF-Community Subject: SPAM on spam Wanted to see what Hormel's "party line" was on the term "spam" as in e-mail: SPAM and the Internet You've probably seen, heard or even used the term "spamming" to refer to the act of sending unsolicited commercial email (UCE), or "SPAM" to refer to the UCE itself. Following is our position on the relationship between UCE and our trademark SPAM. Use of the term "SPAM" was adopted as a result of the Monty Python skit in which a group of Vikings sang a chorus of "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM . . . " in an increasing crescendo, drowning out other conversation. Hence, the analogy applied because UCE was drowning out normal discourse on the Internet. We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE, although we do object to the use of our product image in association with that term. Also, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters. They compared this to several other cases: "Star Wars" for SDI, "Teflon" for Ronald Reagan, "Mickey Mouse" for anything of questionable quality LOLOL -Ben ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
