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A Timeline Of Spam And Antispam

Posted by timothy on from the yes-that's-evil-vs.-good dept.

Haak writes "American Scientist has a fine article by Brian Hayes summing up the history of spam and proposed measures to deal with it." A shorter article along the same lines is running at The Economist.

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  1. A Timetable of lameness for kc and ScottK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1,000,000 B.C. kc is born (yes he's been an asshole that long)

    8,000 B.C. kc kicks his first lamer, out of his cave then known as #cavechat

    1 A.D. kc gives birth to ScottK (constipated for 3 years)

    2000 A.D. ScottK and kc (father and son) Rule Webchat hand on turd.

    2003 A.D. ScottK goes down on his own father (kc) for the first time.