This is new...

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Tue Apr 14 13:18:29 1998

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> 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).

His name was Kantor (sp?), it was usenet spam rather than email spam, and
he was basically the first *unrepentant* spammer. Before that incident,
you could intimidate spammers into stopping. This guy even went on to
write a book on "internet marketing".

-- Doug
Received on Tue Apr 14 1998 - 13:18:29 BST