On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:17:44PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:29 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > > on 2014-01-04 13:52 Bruce Walker wrote > > > > > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)#History_of_Internet_spam> > > Yeah, I do remember reading that now. I was thinking of the infamous > Green Card Lottery spam, although strictly speaking that was a USENET > posting. I was there to witness that one first hand. It inspired my > future career in anti-spam research. > > Your spam predates my net access too. I was on email (UNIX v6 PWB) in > '79, then my company (AES Data) got limited net access in 1982 or so, > via UUCP. For some years I was aesat!bmw (anyone else here remember > bang-paths?).
I even remember at-bang parties at cons. ucscc.ucsc.edu!red4est!lrc -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
