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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 3:06 pm    Post subject: First ever Spam message (from 1978) Reply with quote

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/18084/spam-turning-30-this-month-no-gifts-please/
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wouldn't blame the Wright brothers, I'd blame the wood they used to build the plane >:O
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, it's only 30 years old? I thought it would have been classed as much older than that (if you're going to include junk mail, that is).
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MrSinister wrote:
Wow, it's only 30 years old? I thought it would have been classed as much older than that (if you're going to include junk mail, that is).


Now that you mention it - why don't we dig through all of history for the first TRUE spam message?
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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Impressed! Vintage SPAM

Good detective work Tim_Tex
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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2008 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, and I found it through my basic Yahoo browsing.
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sim wrote:
Now that you mention it - why don't we dig through all of history for the first TRUE spam message?


I'm imagining a cro-magnon man on top of a hill grunting loudly in the direction of many other people at the bottom of the hill.

But that's been done for centuries. "Hear ye, hear ye..."
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