Stupid, Persistent, Annoying Messages?

Stop Pretending And Manipulating...SPAM

Spam is manufactured from an otherwise worthless meat by-product; hence the term.

You've only to look at Monty Python for the answer!

It is a perfect acronym for a totally unwanted piece of email that you cannot swallow or digest. 

Because both are un wanted?

I've always been told it was because of the SPAM skit by Monty Python.

Not sure exactly but the Can-Spam Act of 2003 stands for - Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act.

all good answers here...I like Sandy Padula and Norm Padula, JD, GRI NMLS#1483386 (Norman's answer...)

It must be an acronym for something - and the "A" is for "annoying!

Because it's unwanted, just like the "meat" SPAM? I think of them as short, pointless, annoying messages. Seems to me that's one of the acronyms I have seen

Always enjoy the spam skit on Monty Python, but I can do without the product and the internet spam.

Now that is a good one that I need to google

Those mentioning the Monty Python skit are correct.

Monty python had skit they did before the internet was popular ad email was just becoming popular - Spam, Spam, Spam...

Sharon Altier, SFR nailed this one

Peter Mohylsky you the correct answer to your own question.

I like the answer by Debbie Reynolds. 

The real origin of the term comes from a 1970 Monty Python’s Flying Circus skit.

No idea.

Monty Python?

Although a slam, I wonder if it raised the visibility/awareness of the canned meat product.  

Spam overtaking the menu, stop please stop!

BTW Hawaiians LOVE SPAM but only the canned meat version 

Peter Mohylsky - now some of those acronyms expanded by our friends - I did not know...lol!

I just remember canned meat as a kid and it was nasty; thus...

I have no idea, but Internet spam and canned meat claim to be something they aren't.

The term spam really caught on in the 1990s when two US lawyers got hold of a script which allowed them to send an ad out promoting their services to thousands of newsgroups at once.

Whatever the true origin of spam, whoever invented the ability to send junk mail over the internet has a lot to answer for.

Good question. I have no idea. 

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Surprisingly I found 35 abbreviation meanings: http://www.acronymfinder.com/SPAM.html

Stupid, Pointless Annoying Message (folk etymology)

Unlike Junk in the Trunk ... it is a junk message.