"Internet Home" (Have a "ham-cam"?)

[Joseph McCollum]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:10:21 EDT Bapopik at aol.com writes:
>It could just as easily be Spam Cam.
>--Barry Popik

Oh, I like that one much better.

This has probably come up before, but whence "spam?"

I have heard two different versions:

(1)  The original spam was actually sent out by Spam.  (I find this story
unlikely:
        it doesn't seem that a meat-packing company or even a reseller
of
        canned meat would be an early entrant into e-commerce.)

(2)  Spam stands for "s-something p-something advertising message."  OK,
but what are s & p ?