[LINK] Fwd: The Update - 18th April 2004

[Jan Whitaker]

given the current situation re spam:

>10 years ago this week:
>
>* On 12th April 1994, a pair of Arizona attorneys launched a
>homemade marketing software program that forever changed the
>face of the Internet. Hoping to drum up business, Laurence Canter
>wrote a Perl script that flooded online message boards with an
>advertisement for law firm Canter & Siegel. Mass spamming was
>born.

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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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