Canonically, It's Wonderful

For some reason, I don’t believe your Spam email is just for me  

That's unfortunate.  Usually, ISPs do a pretty good job these days of screening out Spam emails before they get to you.  

Which is all well and good unless it's your ISP which is sending the Spam.  Those tend to go through somehow.  

So their Spam was just for you?  

That's what it said.  I think it lied.  

Before we get into that, perhaps a brief history of Spam:

Spam is a self-described canned meat product made of primarily pork shoulder with ham meat added.  While various descriptions are common, the exact meaning of the name "Spam" is a closely guarded secret.   The most common beliefs are that the name stands for "Spiced Ham," "Shoulders of Pork And HaM," or "SPAre Meat."  None of these are acknowledged by the manufacturer.  

The food product was created in 1937 and gained worldwide popularity after its use in World War II.  Now, over 120 million cans of Spam are sold each year.  

In the early days of email, people discovered a quick and easy way of distributing emails to an incredibly wide audience.  By using wildcard characters, they could instantly send a single email to every user with a certain domain name, such as *@emaildomain.net, which would send a copy to everyone who had an "@emaildomain.net" email address.  Easy, and useful!  

And really annoying.  

This process became known as "Spamming" people, and the emails were known as "Spam" emails, at least partially because of a popular Monty Python sketch, and because the practice has the effect of throwing a can of the beloved meat product into a high-powered fan, spraying the surrounding area with mess.  Spamming is regulated for the most part by ISPs who disallow the practice under Acceptable Use Policies and other terms of use agreements that you've never read before accepting.  

But it's okay for them to do it, I guess. 

So, I got an email the other day from my ISP.  The subject was something along the lines of "Special Information Just For You," and it included a newsletter of everything that the ISP was working on and promoting for the upcoming month.  There is no way that this email was specifically generated for the sole benefit of Jeremy.  I can't be sure, but I choose to believe that pretty much everybody who shares my ISP got a copy of this email Just For Them, and it wasn't all that much different than the one that was Just For Me.  I feel a little betrayed by my email now.