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  1. What? No One from Hormel? by thumbtack · · Score: 2 · on Spam Conference in Boston

    If there is going to be a Spam conference there has got to be a representative from Hormel, the makers of Spam. They even have a Spam Museum, Spam Recipes and much more on their Website. You can even order online, if you don't want anyone to know you are a closet Spam Freak, or read Spam Trivia.

    Regardless of what you think of Spam, someones eating those 6 BILLION cans they have produced since 1937.

  2. Where I Work by rat7307 · · Score: 3, Funny · on Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses?

    ...we get a ham.

    Its size is based on how well we are going.

    This year I think were getting a can of SPAM

  3. Where's my $10K? by AnalogDiehard · · Score: 1 · on Lessig On Bounties For Spamhunters
    I got one!

  4. Re:Misleading by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam
    Fighting it would eliminate the source and free up the gigabytes of bandwidth lost for this marketing purpose. Filtering is fine for now, but ultimately it must be fought and defeated.

    There are three problems I see with fighting spam:

    • It is hard and time consuming.
    • Innocent bystanders get hurt by some of the fights. ("You are supporting spam because your ISP is also used by a spammer, so I'm going to block your mail too!")
    • There are too many idiots out there who think they can make money by sending spam. The actual amount of profit doesn't matter.

    Spam stinks, and I don't have a good answer. But filters are a valuable tool until we can boil spammers in oil. (See here for more tasty spam recipes.)

  5. Eat commercial unsolicited bulk emails by dillon_rinker · · Score: 2 · on The Open Source Cookbook?

    Go here and learn to cook spam.

  6. Re:As much as I hate spam by beable · · Score: 1 · on Another Go At Making Spam Cost Money
    We should treat SPAM differently because

    Let's not forget that SPAM is a registered trademark of Hormel foods. Hormel says that they don't object to the use of the word "spam" to refer to unsolicited email, but they'd really like you to NOT use their trademark "SPAM" for that purpose.

    I think it's a reasonable position for them to take, and out of respect for their delicious spiced ham food like product, we should all be using "spam" to mean "UCE", and "SPAM" to mean "delicious food".
  7. I don't know about you... by llamalicious · · Score: 3, Funny · on Beating the Spam Merchants

    but all this Spam news is making me hungry.

    Spam Nachos anyone??

  8. Re:Can of Spam? by Karma+50 · · Score: 1 · on Spam Under Legislative Attack in Europe

    http://www.hormel.com/ci/ci_in.htm

  9. Why the icon change for Spam? by Darth+RadaR · · Score: 2, Funny · on European Union Says No To Spam

    Is Hormel giving Cmdr Taco grief? Enquiring minds want to know.

  10. Re:ROCK ON!! by winnetou · · Score: 1 · on H.R. 3113: Spam Bounty Hunters Wanted
    It's nice to see the government is trying to take action against SPAM by empowering the citizens!

    Please be carefull with your CapsLock key. SPAM is a trademark of Hormel Foods. They kindly allow the use of "spam" for unsolicited bulk e-mail and excessive multiposting to Usenet.
    Note:The website of Hormel seems to be down at the moment.

  11. An Internet experience that deserves a smell: by jimmcq · · Score: 1 · on Smell Mail to Replace E-mail?

    The Great Taste of SPAM®" Recipe Book

    'nuff said.

  12. Slashdot's spam logo (Slightly offtopic) by B.D.Mills · · Score: 4 · on @Home Gets the Usenet Death Penalty

    There's a small problem with the picture used to depict "spam", as in junk e-mail and the like. It depicts a can of SPAM luncheon meat , which is a registered trademark of Hormel foods.

    Hormel's position on this matter is best expressed by the following quotation from their "Spam and the Internet" page:

    We do not object to use of [the word "spam"] to describe UCE, although we do object to the use of our product image in association with that term.

    This means Hormel don't like pictures of cans of their SPAM luncheon meat used in conjunction with junk e-mail and the like.

    I suggest that the logo for "spam" be changed for those legal reasons. Perhaps we could change it to the picture of a pig from O'Reilly's book "Stopping Spam", or some similar porcine picture that's suggestive of "spam".