Open AccessWired to the World: Get a Handle on Spam
Author(s) -
Ralph Scott
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
north carolina libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2379-4305
pISSN - 0029-2540
DOI - 10.3776/ncl.v60i3.229
Subject(s) - advertising , product (mathematics) , noon , business , morning , recall , history , internet privacy , commerce , computer science , psychology , mathematics , biology , botany , physics , geometry , astronomy , cognitive psychology
Those of us of World War II vintage and even later will recall Hormel’s Spam, a processed meat product that was for decades a staple of the American diet, served morning, noon, and night. A recent phenomenon, junk e-mail (a.k.a. another type of Spam), has becomethe bane of our collective existence. When I returned from vacation this summer, I found some 493 e-mail messages waiting to be read — timeshare offers, yet more low-priced toner cartridges, and offers of millions of dollars from Nigeria if I would only contact Mr. So-and-So with my bank account numbers.