"Unwanted traffic", is what I go by typically. What is your understanding (if you have one) of that term?

quietbritishjim an hour ago | parent [-]

Spam specifically means (at least originally) so much unwanted traffic that it overwhelms legitimate traffic. So can I see why that commenter might have considered it a contradiction to say "the majority being truthful" as a strategy to deal with spam.

The name comes from a Monty Python sketch where "SPAM!" is being sung so loudly that it drowned out any other conservation.

	▲	embedding-shape 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Spam specifically means (at least originally) so much unwanted traffic that it overwhelms legitimate traffic. I guess what today is more commonly known as DOS (or even DDOS sometimes, even if it isn't actually "distributed" per se, for some reason). I did know about the name since before, but not the original meaning, so cheers for the explanation :)