{"id":4106,"date":"2004-06-24T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T10:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2004-06-24T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T10:48:11","slug":"spim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4106","title":{"rendered":"SPIM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Yahoo+to+Trillian%3A+Talk+to+the+hand\/2100-1032_3-5245821.html?part=rss&#38;tag=5245821&#38;subj=news.1032.20\">article on CNET about Yahoo blocking Trillian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>IM spam, commonly referred to as &#8220;spim,&#8221; has been flagged by experts as a growing problem. However, experts have also written off spim as a far cry from e-mail spam, which has caused enormous headaches for consumers and businesses alike. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/\">CNET.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SPIM? I have to say this is one of the lamer terms I&#8217;ve heard.  If you look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templetons.com\/brad\/spamterm.html\">origin of the term spam<\/a>, it doesn&#8217;t even seem to come from email at all. So I guess that means for email we should be calling it &#8216;spem&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article on CNET about Yahoo blocking Trillian: IM spam, commonly referred to as &#8220;spim,&#8221; has been flagged by experts as a growing problem. However, experts have also written off spim as a far cry from e-mail spam, which has caused enormous headaches for consumers and businesses alike. [CNET.com] SPIM? I have to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}