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If you receive an email from me talking about canned meat, don't open it. It's SPAM.
(startrek.website)
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Fun fact, Spam, as in spiced ham, is actually the origin of the name email spam. There's a monty python sketch where the name Spam keeps getting incessantly repeated, and based on that sketch the term spam for unsolicited digital messages was coined.
The sketch in question