14 Apr
1998
14 Apr
'98
1:28 p.m.
On Apr 14, 11:06, Allison J Parent wrote:
Try about 5-6 years and it was there before but you
could get the offender
tossed before that. Also When AOL opened to the net it seemed to add to
the fray.
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).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York