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Re: The Luncheon Meat Associated With Junk Email?

John Hines (jbhines@newsguy.com)
Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:43:48 -0500

hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> Regards the use of the term 'spam' for unwanted email, my impression
> has always been that Hormel treats it like a joke.

No, they have a policy these days, in summary, the word 'spam' has
been added to the English vocabulary, while 'Spam' is still a
registered trademark, and is to be used only in reference to their
(Hormel AFAIK) product.

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: All well and good, but how does one
pronounce an upper case /S/ differently than a lower case /s/ in order
to avoid violating any trademarks? Perhaps in verbalizing it we
could refer to 'upper Spam' and 'lower spam' but somehow I think
that would be even more confusing; it would make it come out
sounding like a country in Asia or something. PAT]

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