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Re:Bacn is the New Spam by mintplant on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:53PM (#5378632)
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.

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Re:Bacn is the New Spam by monkeyspaw on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:40PM (#5378789)
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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