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Wednesday April 14, 2004
05:28 AM
Spam is 10
This week (Monday, in fact) was the tenth anniversary of Cantor and Siegel's Green Card Lottery spam, generally accepted as the internet's first piece of spam.
I clearly remember the indignation that it caused at the time (see here for a sample).
We've come a long way since then
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
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