The evidence shows that the use of the word "spam" when referring to junk e-mail could have come from a Monty Python sketch.

Regarding the etymology of "spam": Anyone who has been in the business for a long time knows that "spam" as applied to unwanted bulk e-mail comes from the Monty Python "Spam" sketch, where ...

Spammers have inundated the Python Package Index (PyPI) portal and the GitLab source code hosting website with garbage content, flooding both with ads for shady sites and services. The attacks ...

The official Python software package repository PyPI is under attack from threat actors that have begun flooding it with spam packages according to a new report from BleepingComputer.

A Monty Python skit from the 70s Poor developers sick of eating the same meal It's an acronym for "spontaneously persistent advertising message" SPAM meat was the first product to be "spammed" via ...

Templeton said this action was named after the Spam song from the Monty Python skit in which the performers sing, "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam" until told to shut up.

Monty Python fans can now join the comedy troupe's official Monty Python's SPAM Club, claiming to be 'the worst run fan club in the world'!

A limited-edition Spam with Stinky French Garlic variant is celebrating the canned meat brand's associations with comedy phenomenon Monty Python. Launched to coincide with next month's West End ...