Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:00:04 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] SPAM [was: Re: [WSFA] Re: HTML messages and why they are bad [was: Re: [WSFA] Re: Quoting]]
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 12:46 AM 4/23/05 -0400, Steve Smith wrote:
>Mike B. wrote:

>Also, a nit.  SPAM is a tasty meat byproduct consisting of water, salt,
>cholesterol, and saturated fat.  Spam is Unsolicited Commercial E-mail.

And SPAM is an acronym for "Software-Produced Annoying Messages", which is
why it's all caps.

The Hormel thing is not always capitalized from what I've seen and I think
they claim the contents of the cans are "pork shoulder and ham".  Why they
didn't call it "PSAH" or "PSH" I'm not sure.

>    (The nice folks at Hormel would really like us to talk about UCE
>instead of spam, but it ain't gonna happen.)

Until you can eat the annoying messages and confuse them with pork shoulder
and ham, I don't think there's any trademark infringement.  The two areas
of endeavor don't really overlap at all.  It's sort of like the VAX
computer and the VAX vacuum cleaner.  Totally different markets and no
chance a buyer will confuse the two.

-- Mike B.
Where would you like Bill Gates to go today?