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==Impact==

The phenomenon, some years later, of marketers drowning out discourse by flooding [[Usenet]] newsgroups and individuals' [[email]] with junk mail advertising messages was named [[Spam (electronic)|spamming]], due to some early internet users that flooded forums with the word ''spam''<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web|url=http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html |title=Origin of the term "spam" to mean net abuse |publisher=Templetons.com |access-date=5 July 2013}}</ref> recounting the repetitive and unwanted presence of spam in the sketch. This phenomenon has been reported in court decisions handed down in lawsuits against spammers – see, for example, ''CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc.'', 962 F.Supp. 1015, n. 1 (S.D.Ohio 1997). Furthermore, it has been referenced in an [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] ''[[amicus curiae]]'' brief to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] in 2014.<ref>[https://www.eff.org/files/2013/11/05/eff_amicus_brief_fortres_grand.pdf “Electronic"Electronic Frontier Foundation amicus curiae”curiae"]. Supreme Court of the United States.</ref> The term also is used to refer to mass marketing using junk phone calls or text messages, and has since entered video game culture as a term to refer to producing a large quantity of something, such as rocket-spamming or grenade-spamming.

The [[Python (programming language)|Python]] programming language, named after Monty Python, prefers to use spam, ham, and eggs as [[metasyntactic variable]]s, instead of the traditional [[foobar|foo, bar and baz]].