12 May
2010
12 May
'10
3:56 p.m.
> There was a LOT of email software developed
(often on Sun computers) in
> the mid 1980s, mostly for the purpose of making it easy for a spammer to
> be able to send out unwanted email that is hard to trace, without having
> to learn much of the details of the computer, OS, or mail protocol.
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Rich Alderson wrote:
ITYM "mid 1990s". There was very little
spam in the mid 1980s, and the 'Net
was still a friendly place to live.
(Cantor & Siegel was c. 1993, and spam as an advertising mode postdates that.)
You are right. I was off by a decade.
So, a Sun computer in the 1980s COULD have been used to write some of the
earliest SPAM software!