It amuses how ingrained now into the world culture has become the venerable SPAM (notice the correct orthography as instructed by Hormel!)
It is basically disgusting product which takes quite delicious under certain circumstances: maybe like Chris' once a year with eggs, or as I haven't had for years and after reading this am craving, fried crispy on both sides for lunch! My personal favorite SPAM recollection comes from the early 70s when I was traveling, back when one could spell it "Spam." We were driving in the wilds of the Highlands of Scotland, slightly south of Bettyhill, on a road completely deserted for miles and hours. Suddenly we approached a little ramshackle stand about 3 feet wide, reminiscent of a kid's lemonade stand on a sidewalk, completely otherwise isolated for any signs of civilization, with a sign saying "Hamburger." At this point having been without a real hamburger for over 2 years, as this was long before the global march of MacDonalds, I insisted to my British friends that we stop and have a "hamburger." Well, imagine my surprise when sandwiched between two pieces of white bread was a slice of slightly warm, slightly cooked, good ol' Hormel Spam! Somehow the true translation of "hamburger" had made it not yet that far north in the British Isles! As far as computer spam I think it is most important to use one's "valuable" eddress(es) judiciously and maintain freebie eddresses for casual, or fun, or for dropping on websites. Thus, if one gets on serious spam lists, one can just abandon the trashed eddress. On my ISP eddress I almost never get any spam, a combination I suspect of their doing good spam blocking and their being a Mac-only ISP making them less spam worthy for some reason (It is www.theMacISP.com, which used to be the www.appleisp.net, and now uses both-a great dialup ISP now with the new high speed dialup, too.) However, I rarely use the ISP eddresses where there is a likelihood they'll get on spam lists. A good "freeby" eddress site is www.hotpop.com which offers both automatic forwarding and POP access (given one 2 ways to get the email into Emailer!). ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
