- Interesting fact about Spam
- Posted by Swampy Bogtrotter formerly known as fat sam on January 26th, 2006
The first spam email may have been sent in 1978 by a Digital Equipment
Corporation salesperson to announce a product presentation.
Source: The New York Times, February 9, 2003. - Quoted on Yahoo.
- Posted by Rastus on January 27th, 2006
If my memory serves me correct he used a now defunct broadcast address and
it generated a lot of controversy at the time.
- Posted by William Tasso on January 27th, 2006
Fleeing from the madness of the ntlworld News Service jungle
Swampy Bogtrotter formerly known as fat sam <samandjanetknox@tessco.net>
stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:
yes - read more: http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html
<q>I didn't receive the DEC message, but I can't imagine I would have been
bothered if I have. I get tons of uninteresting mail, and system
announcements about babies born, etc. At least a demo MIGHT have been
interesting.</q>
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William Tasso - I was looking back to see, if she was looking back to see,
if I was looking back at her.
How To Usenet: http://williamtasso.com/usenet/ - prove I'm wrong.
- Posted by Paul Ding on January 28th, 2006
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:06:25 +1000, "Rastus" <nospam@uq.edu.au> posted
something that included:
That wasn't the first, though. Jon Postel wrote an RFC on jumk email
in 1975.
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