 | | Re: What is spam? —James Brown
| | | | (...) <nitpick> 'written by a human' notes can be spam. If I get my dirty little hands on an address list, and handwrite a (whatever), then send it to all gazillion of them, it can still qualify as spam. Most of the chain e-mails out there were, at (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: What is spam? —Todd Lehman
| | | | | (...) I think it actually _started_ with newsgroups, and has since grown to include mailing lists and other areas. (...) Ah yes, that's a great example! One single message, not necessarily having been bulk e-mailed (but in the recent (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: What is spam? —Frank Filz
| | | | | Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) include (...) Yup, that's my memory also. I know lists existed when I started reading newsgroups, but there weren't very many (of course at that time, you could actually read the whole list of newsgroups also, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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