Pass the Eggs, Hold the Bacn

There seems to be a new email term slowly making its way across the internet, in hopes to be as widely used as "spam". That term is bacn, which has the accepted definition of, "Email you want, but not right now."


The term seems to have originated from the Podcamp Pittsburg podcast, and since has spread by blogs and twitter. There is even a site up to promote the term: http://www.bacn2.com/

Apparently, this will be used to identify all those pesky notifications, updates, and mailers we don't want to get rid of, but don't want to read either. AKA, all those emails sent to you by people you don't know... that's not spam. Who knows, it may actually get somewhere, it has that Web 2.0 lack of a vowel, and enough of a food reference to relate to spam.