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Brad Templeton On Spam's Silver Anniversary

Posted by timothy on from the silver-bullets-for-spammers dept.

Brad Templeton writes "This Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the first spam I was able to find, and one month ago was the 10th anniversary of the first time a USENET posting was called a spam and the birth of the term (at least beyond mudds)." Templeton was also cited in the American Scientist article featured last Sunday.

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  1. RMS Defends Spam! by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 1, Troll
    He even wants to be spammed by online dating services!

    Please insert your own "GNU/Spam" joke here.

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    "And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."