COMMENTARY--Robert Wientzen, president of the Direct Marketing Association, has an unusual view of what types of junk e-mail qualify as spam. Wientzen said during an appearance on CBS News last week ...

As I write this, Congress is just about to finish up the approval of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, aka the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. The term “mixed ...

As the arms race between spammers and spam-blockers continues, the automatic spam flag is a crucial yet finicky tool for separating the wheat from the chaff. Nowadays, spam filters come standard on ...

Hormel Foods, the maker of the legendary spiced lunch meat made of pork shoulders and ham, says it can live with Spam's double meaning as junk electronic mail. In a message posted on the official Spam ...

It shares its name with those annoying emails nobody wants. It comes in a can and is made of … some sort of spongy meat? Whether you grew up eating it and still love it or you’ve merely eyed it ...

The search giant is now using savvier machine learning to better tell which messages are legit and which ones are junk. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Here's interesting exchange involving the Austin-based Fortune 500 company, Hormel Foods Corp. and its bid to make Spam mean canned meat (or movie, oddly enough) in Europe. Hormel's appeal of a ...

The six-ingredient food product has been a staple in the American diet for decades - but little is known about the true origins of its brand name. Spam has become a beacon of popular culture in the US ...

A brand name of luncheon meat. Also junk mail, specifically unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, but also real live spam-peddlers. This use of the word is based on the famous Monty Python Spam ...