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25 Years of Spam
This is awesome!
Bloomberg Business News— "EarthLink, the third-largest U.S. Internet service, said Wednesday it won $16 million and a court order shutting down the "Buffalo Spammer," an operation accused of sending 857 million junk e-mails in the last two years. EarthLink charged that Howard Carmack and his associates used "hundreds" of bogus or stolen credit cards and fake identities to open 343 accounts from which they sent an estimated 1 million pieces of spam a day. more... And this is interesting:
SFGate.com— IT WAS a simple advertisement touting a new computer sent to everyone on the Arpanet (pre-Internet) on the West Coast. And, while the term didn't exist yet, it drew the same response on May 3, 1978, as "spam" does today -- outrage. more...
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