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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. Well.... by Gefiltefish · · Score: 5, Funny


    I'm gonna need all that money from Nigeria to afford the necessary penis enlargement and credit rating accentuation!

    Examined from the inside, the world of spam has created its own perverse little self-sustaining ecosystem.