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 cont ...
, 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 (especia ...
, 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, unavoi ...
, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
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Messaging spam, spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS or private messages within websites
Art and entertainment
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Spam (gaming), 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'' (1997), by Save Ferris
* "Spam", a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic on the album ''
UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff''
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Spam Museum, 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 computation to study impact fractures in solids
* SPAM, a
candidate phylum of bacteria
See also
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