14 Apr
1998
14 Apr
'98
10:16 p.m.
On Apr 14, 12:04, Tim Shoppa 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.
I think you're talking about Canter and Siegel, right? While this
wasn't the "first" spam, Canter and Siegel's "GREEN CARD"
postings
are among the best well-known, and in many ways the most irritating.
(Canter went on the talk-show circuit after the spam disaster to
promote his book which claimed to show others how to succeed in
internet marketing.)
Thanks, Tim, that's what I was thinking of. And thanks to whoever dug out the
posting (sorry no attribution, I hit "delete" a bit too quick). Seems my
memory was close but not wholly accurate. How unusual :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York