14 Apr
1998
14 Apr
'98
2:18 p.m.
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:
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