Robin, have you watched the Youtube video Terry linked to? Here is the
link again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
It's the 1970 Monty Python sketch, Spam, which is the actual origin
of the use of the word for unsolicited email, due to the high number
of times the word is repeated in
On 01/28/2010 11:57 AM, Michel Jullian wrote:
PS Strange how Gmail's algorithms consider some messages are spam for
some people and not for others. Personalized spam blocking!
This goes to the heart of the Spam problem. The worst difficulty isn't
the ladies from China who supposedly want
eSpam etymology:
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2635
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:09:31 -0500:
Hi,
[snip]
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:13 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
SPAM - SPurious Advertising Material.
Also SPiced hAM:
That was the original definition before the advent of the Internet.
[snip]
Regards,
Robin van
2010/1/25 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com:
By the way, I think Bill Gates (2004) was right and spam has been largely
eliminated.
Jed, I see you use Gmail, have you checked the number of emails in
your spam folder? (the spams you have received in the last month if
you haven't deleted them
From Michel:
Jed, I see you use Gmail, have you checked the number of emails in
your spam folder? (the spams you have received in the last month if
you haven't deleted them manually). Mine contains more than 1400
spams, so maybe it would be more accurate to say that spam is less
problematic
Michel Jullian wrote:
Jed, I see you use Gmail, have you checked the number of emails in
your spam folder?
Maybe 5 per day. I don't check often. I have only found real mail
there are few times. I would say spam has gone from being Very
Annoying to being a minor problem you have to deal with
Ironically, this was the only VO message in my spam folder of about 30
total in the past month.
Hey Monteverde, the Food Network says Hawaiians love spam, like spam
omelette's, etc.
Terry
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:50 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
orionwo...@charter.net wrote:
From
At 08:50 AM 1/26/2010, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:
http://blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2010/01/25/spam-is-solved-we-can-all-go-home-now.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/ylj42d5
I would love some comments on this article.
Okay, here goes!
The article describes an interesting
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:05:35 -0500:
Hi,
[snip]
Ironically, this was the only VO message in my spam folder of about 30
total in the past month.
Hey Monteverde, the Food Network says Hawaiians love spam, like spam
omelette's, etc.
Terry
SPAM - SPurious
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:13 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
SPAM - SPurious Advertising Material.
Also SPiced hAM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
T
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