FWD (SK)(Got Caliche?) Spam, Bam, Thank You Ma'am

From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 23:18:00 MDT

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    At 04:59 PM 7/18/2003 -0700, you wrote:

    >< http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111192,00.asp >
    >
    >Spam takes its name from a Monty Python skit about a restaurant that served
    >the stuff and the Vikings who ate there while chanting the word "spam" over
    >and over. According to Internet lore, the first spam attack took place in 1985
    >inside a multiuser game.

    PC World is a bunch of idiots.

    The first documented spam was in 1978 by a DEC marketing rep. So it turned
    25, not 20, in May of this year. You can read a brief history of spam by
    people who actually know something about it here

    http://www.templetons.com/brad/spam/spam25.html

    The term spam really went into common usage with the Cantor & Siegel Green
    Card Usenet spam in 1994.

                                            Scott Peterson

    Is reading in the bathroom
    considered Multi-Tasking? 

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