Whats a Spammer?
A. By definition, a Spammer is one who spams, meaning that they cross-post or “global-post” a message to multiple newsgroups or e-mail addresses. It also refers to people who post ads to your e-mail that you didn’t request, or newsgroup posts advertising merchandise or services that are off the general subject of the newsgroup. The expression, like so many cyber-expressions, is derived from an early Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch in which a gentleman and his wife are at a restaurant in which everything on the menu has spam in it and he loves spam but his wife hates it. Eventually, a chorus of men break out into song, singing “Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam…” in four-part harmony, drowning out the sketch.
