junk mail

It angers me that I get so much junk mail for trash that I don’t want.

That inspired the use of Spam as the go-to term for online junk mail, initially by a programmer named Joel Furr in the early 1990s.

One of Fish’s most promising bets is on a company that turns junk mail into roofing board for big commercial buildings.

The embattled New York congressman announced he was taking a leave of absence to deal with his junk mail problem.

Spammers hadn't figured out that using public keys would make their junk mail more plausible yet, so for now this worked well.