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Spam is a meat-based product manufactured by Hormel Foods Corporation and immortalised by a famous Monty Python sketch. It has since been adopted by the Internet community to signify the mindless mass-posting of messages to Usenet or email, flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message.
Spam is unwanted
Spam is an American phenomenon (born of deep-rooted cultural memes such as Free Speech; consumerism; dislike of intrusive government) that's going to become a global problem soon enough. Although most people (Americans included) don't like spam, there's a vocal minority who worry that regulating the Interenet in any way will lead to the destruction of the American Way of Life (and therefore the World), and Big Brother will take over.
