On Apr 14, 11:06, Allison J Parent wrote:
> Try about 5-6 years and it was there before but you could get the offender
> tossed before that. Also When AOL opened to the net it seemed to add to
> the fray.
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. IIRC
he lost his account. I can't remember the details, so it might be hard to find
(and I'm not sure of the details, but 5-6 years ago sounds about right).
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Tue Apr 14 1998 - 12:28:02 BST