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'''Spam''' most often refers to:
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'''Spam''' originally referred to ], a canned meat product sold by the Hormel Foods Corporation. Since then, many other uses of the term have emerged. * ], a consumer brand product of canned processed pork of the Hormel Foods Corporation
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* ], a Monty Python comedy sketch. The "Spam" in the sketch refers specifically to the meat. Most later uses of "spam" refer in one way or another to undesirable repetition, and this sketch is considered to be the most likely source of such uses of the term.
⚫ * ], unsolicited or undesired electronic messages
====Uses referring to repetition====
* ], unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages. There are many types of electronic spam, including ** ], unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
** ], spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS or private messages within websites
**], unsolicited e-mail
⚫ **], unsolicited text messages
**], posting advertisements or useless posts on a forum
**], manipulating a search engine to create the illusion of popularity for webpages
**], posting random comments and random tips/ideas or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks
**], advertisements and forgery on newsgroups
**] ("SPIM"), use of instant messenger services for advertisement or even extortion
* ], to repeatedly use one weapon or tactic. This term is based on the technological meaning of "undesired bulk electronic message"
* ] ("street spam"), illegal blanket advertising in public places


== Art and entertainment ==
====Uses in songs====
* ], the repetition of an in-game action
At least two songs named "Spam" have been released, neither of which has any connection to either the Monty Python sketch nor to the electronic uses of the term that came afterwards. Both are about the original meat product.
* ], a comedy sketch
* ], a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of ''Stand'' by R.E.M.
* "Spam" was a song on the album '']'' by the ska band Save Ferris * "Spam", a song on the album '']'' (1997), by Save Ferris
* "Spam", a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic on the album '']''
* ], a museum in Austin, Minnesota, US dedicated to the canned pork meat product


== Other uses ==
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* Smooth-particle applied mechanics, the use of ] computation to study impact fractures in solids
* SPAM, a ]


== See also ==
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* {{In title|Spam}}


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For spam on Misplaced Pages, see Misplaced Pages:Spam and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Spam.

Spam most often refers to:

  • Spam (food), a consumer brand product of canned processed pork of the Hormel Foods Corporation
  • Spamming, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages
    • Email spam, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
    • Messaging spam, spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS or private messages within websites

Art and entertainment

Other uses

See also

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