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Why on earth do we actually call highly annoying, unsolicited junk emails by the meat name 'spam'?

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Why on earth do we actually call highly annoying, unsolicited junk emails by the meat name 'spam'?

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Why on earth do we actually call highly annoying, unsolicited junk emails by the meat name 'spam'?
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