12 May
2010
12 May
'10
3:44 p.m.
From: Fred Cisin
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:37 PM
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Sean Conner wrote:
> To be charitable to Dan, perhaps he's
talking about sendmail, which was
> written in 1981, althought the only person that can definitively state one
> way or the other is Allman.
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.
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.)
Rich