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		mintplant on March 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bacn is the New Spam Actually, it is. It stands for "Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages". ...At least, that's what I've always thought it to be, anyway. Now that I go back and check, I can't quite find a source for this claim.

monkeyspaw on March 15, 2013 [–]

My understanding is that it's derived from 1970s database programmers "spamming the database" with dummy data. The original term comes from Monty Python's Spamalot skit, I believe.

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