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

[Howard Lowndes]

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 08:10, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 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.

Even more reason to hate lawyers :)

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