Spam may refer to:
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Spam (food)
Spam (stylized as SPAM) is a brand of canned cooked pork made by Hormel Foods Corporation. It was introduced by Hormel in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II. By 2003, Spam was sold in 41 countries on six co ...
, a canned pork meat product
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Spamming
Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, for the purpose of non-commercial proselytizing, for any prohibited purpose (especial ...
, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages
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Email spam
Email spam, also referred to as junk email, spam mail, or simply spam, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email (spamming).
The name comes from a Monty Python sketch in which the name of the canned pork product Spam is ubiquitous, unavoida ...
, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
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Messaging spam Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS, or private messages within websites.
Instant messaging applications
Instant messaging systems, such as Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter ...
, spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS or private messages within websites
Art and entertainment
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Spam (gaming)
This list includes terms used in video games and the video game industry, as well as slang used by players.
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, the repetition of an in-game action
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"Spam" (Monty Python), a comedy sketch
* "Spam", a song on the album ''
It Means Everything
''It Means Everything'' is the first album by Save Ferris. It was released on September 9, 1997.
Track listing
All songs written by Brian Mashburn except where noted.
# "The World Is New" – 2:12
# "Nobody But Me" – 3:05
# "Superspy" – 3:0 ...
'' (1997), by Save Ferris
* "Spam", a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic on the album ''
UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff
''UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff'' is the sixth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released on July 18, 1989. The album is the final of Yankovic's to be produced by former The McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer. Recorde ...
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Spam Museum
The Spam Museum is an admission-free museum in Austin, Minnesota dedicated to Spam, a brand of canned precooked meat products made by Hormel Foods Corporation. The museum tells the history of the Hormel company, the origin of Spam, and its plac ...
, a museum in Austin, Minnesota, US dedicated to the canned pork meat product
Other uses
* Smooth-particle applied mechanics, the use of
smoothed-particle hydrodynamics
Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a computational method used for simulating the mechanics of continuum media, such as solid mechanics and fluid flows. It was developed by Gingold and Monaghan and Lucy in 1977, initially for astrophysica ...
computation to study impact fractures in solids
* SPAM, a
candidate phylum of bacteria
See also
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