What bacn is?

Bacn is not a spam but isn’t exactly a personal message either. It is only a mail that we plan to read, because we are interested in it but not right now. Your electronic phone bill is bacn. Your Google alerts are bacn. When you just get a message: “George has admitted you!” These messages about another message are important for us but usually we do not read them.

The “bacn” name was born at a Podcamp2 conference in Pittsburgh. The bacon and the uninvited mails came up in the same conversation. This name was sticked on these mails when somebody mentioned the Canadian bacon’s other name is “peameal bacon”. It sounds similar to “e-mail bacon”.

The most important question is: how can we live with it? We are able to prohibit getting such mails, but otherwise we are just late for so many information. Professional users program scripts which can select the mails. Maybe this is the best way. Specialists say: the e-mail programs will be able to select the messages.

By the time it is not realized we have to switch the messages to other map.

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