--On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:05 AM -0700 Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Where did DECnet pick up the term?
From Monty Python's Spamalot/SpamSPAMspamSpam & Eggs.
...which brings us back to "spam" having its origins in negative
commentary on "SPAM."
Or at least n
On Wed, 25 May 2005 09:29:39 -0700, Kelson wrote
> Where did DECnet pick up the term?
No idea, term was in use while I was involved in the late 80s, looking at the
timeline posted to the list my guess would be from the response to their
ARPANET message! (hehe, I never knew about that!)
Jim
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Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Where did DECnet pick up the term?
From Monty Python's Spamalot/SpamSPAMspamSpam & Eggs.
...which brings us back to "spam" having its origins in negative
commentary on "SPAM."
Or at least negative commentary on an *excess* of SPAM.
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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communi
James Ebright wrote:
Spam in the network sense from DECnet simply meant: "send data out to as many
nodes as fast as you can" and I assumed this is where the reference to UCE as
spam came from.
Where did DECnet pick up the term?
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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications
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Well, kindof,
Spam in the network sense from DECnet simply meant: "send data out to as many
nodes as fast as you can" and I assumed this is where the reference to UCE as
spam came from.
Now, considering the "ham" context, then yes, I can see how that reference
would be made and I would construe t
--On Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:24 PM -0500 Charles Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
You have to remember that using the term spam to refer to unwanted email
and ham to refer to wanted email is basically a put-down of the Hormel
product SPAM. It is clear that the email term is a reference to the
right"
cc:
Sent by: Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] spam
now a registered trademark for downloadable
mimedefang-bounc
Ian Mitchell wrote:
Always curious how someone who owns a trademark feels when they're
trademark is essentially hijacked by a community as a whole for use to
describe the bain of all existance ;)
Yeah. When you think about it, Kleenex, Xerox, and Styrofoam have had
it *easy*.
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Kelson Vibb
.com/ci/ci_in.htm
Always curious how someone who owns a trademark feels when they're
trademark is essentially hijacked by a community as a whole for use to
describe the bain of all existance ;)
> Subject: [Mimedefang] spam now a registered trademark for downloadable
>
This refers to thier meat byproduct in a can and is in all caps (SPAM), when
referring to UCE you should only cap the first letter or do it in all lower
case.
And yes, SPAM (c)Hormel way pre-dates even ARPANET and Hormel does defend
their trademark fairly religiously (and they should).
Jim
On
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
The wonderful world of software patents and trademarks
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=76586902
Now time to avoid to offer "anti-spam" solutions / software :} Hormel
could that treat hostile.
I don't think it could apply to the industry we use it
The wonderful world of software patents and trademarks
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=76586902
Now time to avoid to offer "anti-spam" solutions / software :} Hormel
could that treat hostile.
Alexander
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