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Re:The future is now!
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Fahrenheit killed SGI
And if you look really closely, it's hard to understand why.
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The main spam run was April 12Their March 5 spam was just a preliminary test. The big infamy that put the Green Card Lawyers on the map was April 12, 1994. That was the first truly modern spam:
- commercial advert
- fully automated spam engine
- forged headers (in this case, moderation approval)
- three-rules compliant
Yes, there were previous incidents. The Arpanet DEC spam was much earlier, but it was manually typed by a secretary. Zumabot was an earlier robospammer, but he was noncommercial. April 12 1994 is the true Pearl Harbor (or 9-11, for the historically challenged) of spam. The day that convinced us it was time to fight back hard.
Show of hands: who else here remembers exactly where you were (and what you felt) when you saw Green Card Lottery in every newsgroup? I spent a good long time mailbombing dumps from -
Re:old shirt?I have no mod points, so I'll just second that. Anyone has it?
All I could find was this: we pot the o in
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Re:BOOYAH!
You mean like the Direct X release parties when Alex St. John was still working there? Or the "DOS is dead" party? Or the "Midnight Madness" IE release party for 3.0? Or this party for IE5?
And you probably never heard of them because you know nothing about Microsoft, you just know "Oh, it's cool to hate Microsoft and always put 'M$' I'll do that and I'll be |_33+!" Read a book, do some digging. MS (at least used to) have an interesting corperate culture. High intensity with a high burnout rate for sure, but a lot of the industry's best and brightest have worked at Redmond.
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How ironic. I'm writing a post defending MS on a thread attached to a Mozilla article while using Mozilla 1.0 RC3. -
Re:What the Timeline Missed...
Although it was certainly the first commercial robo-spam, and arguably the most important, Green Card Lottery was not the first robo-spam on Usenet.
That "honor" goes to Zumabot. Sadly, I couldn't find of Serdar's actual turkey rants in Google. -
Re:It's about time!
About them being clueless, it's bull. They knew it was wrong, why else would they hack into a open mail relay; why would they hide their identify?
When I wrote they are clueless, I was referring to them being so stupid as to try to claim they didn't know it was wrong, and being so easily caught, and thinking there would be no negative consequence to their acts. Sorry I wasn't clear on that. I'm a long-time spammer-hater. I even still have my Canter and Seigel spamming the globe t-shirt!
