差点被你带沟里去
Why is it called spam?
There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that spam comes from a song in Monty Pyton’s Flying Circus with the lyric, “Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam.” In this scene, a group of Vikings in a cafe are singing about the ubiquity of the canned meat product after World War II.
The rise of chat rooms and Bulletin Board Services (BBSs) in the 1980s expanded the term when some users began repeatedly posting “spam” to consume screen space. This new context gave way to spam being used in reference to the same message being sent repeatedly to prevent other messages from getting attention or to push out other users in the same chat.
But spam didn’t gain notoriety until the rise of the Internet and instant email communication. It reached pandemic proportions in the early 90s. In 1999, Melissa, the first virus that spread via Word documents attached to emails, wreaked havoc on the digital world, causing $80 million in damages.
Professional spammers quickly rose to prominence because there wasn’t any anti-spam legislation in place until the early 2000s, when governments started regulating spam. Most countries now have laws that restrict spam.
In 2003, the U.S. created the CAN-SPAM Act. The laws put restrictions on the sending behavior, the content, and the unsubscribe compliance of all emails. Google and Microsoft, the top email providers, have also worked hard to improve spam filtering technology.
The efforts may be paying off: by some conservative estimates, about 45% of emails are considered spam.
【 在 strangyoung 的大作中提到: 】
: Spam又指垃圾邮件。你就想想它的定位吧。。。二战时专门做出来供应大量盟军的，实际上肉没有多少。。。
--
FROM 114.246.171.*