You will get many answers, most more accurate than mine, but supermarket
spam is garbage, trash, unwanted, and disgusting, :) so I think its a
good name for what we are seeing.

I also think that folks should relax and just delete the stuff, rather
than letting it get to them, or filling the list with even more
messages. There is more talk here about spam than there is spam. The
internet is not a place to expect privacy, although a closed list will
certainly help more than being 'open'

Its just not realistic to communicate world wide in this, and expect
perfect privacy. I don't like it much either, but filters and the delete
key are the best way around it.

Besides that, it is possible to steal email addresses in transit,
although its not easy by any means, so if you are gonna transmit your
address, it is out there for anyone to find, if they know how, and are
determined.

Just delete it and lets go back to vanagons.

Regards from Utah,

John

> Schmidt wrote:
>
> I know it is unsolicited junkmail scams, but why is it referred to as
> "spam" instead of junkmail or Escam or something?  Is spam a term that
> is unique to this list?  In 2 years and thousands of emails, the
> vanagon and t2 list are the only places I have come across the term.
> Spam is a canned "ham" consisting of meat industry "byproduct,"
> factory workers' amputated fingers, various beaks, claws, testicles,
> asshole-of-goat, and loads of salt.
> I post this at the risk of being removed from the list for no vanagon
> content.  I fully understand that a post MUST have either vanagon
> content or GRQ SCHEME content, but not necessarily both.  Sorry for
> neither.  Guilty as charged!
> Jay