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: You mean Canter & Siegel, right? One thing to remember is that they were the first ''commercial'' spam on Usenet; there had been other spam before. [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 13:03, 20 April 2008 (CDT) | : You mean Canter & Siegel, right? One thing to remember is that they were the first ''commercial'' spam on Usenet; there had been other spam before. [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 13:03, 20 April 2008 (CDT) | ||
::Yup. I remember reading about them at the time but I was still 2 years away from my first Internet connection. Here they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canter_&_Siegel Too bad that [[Drawing and quartering]] has gone out of fashion.... Like Ralph Nader, however, I believe that they are (were) unrepentant.... One, however, is apparently dead and is, I hope, roasting away.... [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 13:16, 20 April 2008 (CDT) |
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Shouldn't there be a mention of the egregious Phoenix lawyers (husband and wife), who were the first imbeciles to send out spam -- I'm pretty sure that this is well-documented.... Hayford Peirce 12:26, 20 April 2008 (CDT)
- You mean Canter & Siegel, right? One thing to remember is that they were the first commercial spam on Usenet; there had been other spam before. J. Noel Chiappa 13:03, 20 April 2008 (CDT)
- Yup. I remember reading about them at the time but I was still 2 years away from my first Internet connection. Here they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canter_&_Siegel Too bad that Drawing and quartering has gone out of fashion.... Like Ralph Nader, however, I believe that they are (were) unrepentant.... One, however, is apparently dead and is, I hope, roasting away.... Hayford Peirce 13:16, 20 April 2008 (CDT)