Spim, spem, spom, spum, spam
By Ian Yates in Epitome on Thursday, 24th February 2005 at 2:00pmDisplaying a staggering lack of originality, combined with a modicum of punnery, the IT industry has dubbed spam delivered by instant messaging as spim. Epitome would like to get in early and claim the rights to the other vowel-variations on the original spam.
If the spam gets sent by Ethernet, well call it spem. If it arrives via open source software it will be spom and if it turns up in a bogus United Nations appeal it can be spum. Actually that should probably be spun, which is awfully close to spin. Is this stuff all that different from the PR missives that overflow lizards email boxes?
Renai LeMay at ZDNet was the only one with his byline on the latest spam story, reporting that amid news that a US teenager has become the first person to be arrested on suspicion of sending unsolic...
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