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April 25, 2005

Very First Spammer Tells All; Other Firsts

Back in 1978, when I was still playing handheld LED football games and Pong, Gary Thuerk was thinking of bigger things, like how to spread the word more effectively about the computers he was trying to sell.

Twenty years later, two men became the first to pay a settlement for breaking anti-spam laws.

(via spam-l)

Posted by schampeo at April 25, 2005 11:38 AM