At 04:27 PM 7/1/03, you wrote:
Words of a masochistic programmer?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John A. Lind
>Subject: Re: [OM] Kodak's new High Definition 400?
>
> and spam myself. :)
>
Ummmm . . . the Lobster Thermadore . . . was "borrowed" from a notoriously
famous Monty Python sketch script. That sketch *is* the etymology of the
name "SPAM" being used to describe unsolicited junk email.
In the Good Ole Days prior to commercialization of the Internet (thank you
Al Gore), SPAM was something a little different. It usually consisted of
flooding someone as rapidly as possible with a continuous stream of long,
garbage emails to overrun their inbound mailbox and consume all their
authorized mail storage, and then some. Those particularly skilled at this
automated sending the email. It would drag throughput down to a crawl and
take an SMTP server to its knees, possibly crashing it, not just the target
individual's email account on the server. Even if network and SMTP server
survived, it had the same effect as today's deluge of unwanted, often
offensive and pornographic email advertising . . . wading through all the
garbage to find a few legitimate and desired email messages. Back then,
deleting mail was more arduous . . . all keystroke and no handy mouse with
point/click, drag/drop, etc. Didn't take much to consume hours deleting it
all.
-- John
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