14 Apr
1998
14 Apr
'98
11:36 a.m.
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:
And to make matters even worse, it was a husband and wife lawyer team!
- don
ISTR an article on alt.folklore.computers a year
or so back, giving the name of
the lawyer who sent the first officially-recorded unsolicited email spam. IIRC
he lost his account. I can't remember the details, so it might be hard to find
(and I'm not sure of the details, but 5-6 years ago sounds about right).
His name was Kantor (sp?), it was usenet spam rather than email spam, and
he was basically the first *unrepentant* spammer. Before that incident,
you could intimidate spammers into stopping. This guy even went on to
write a book on "internet marketing".
-- Doug