Happy birthday spam

Posted by Dirk on May 08, 2003

In Reply to: Happy birthday spam posted by ESC on May 08, 2003

: SPAM - ?In case you didn?t notice, this month marks the silver anniversary of that fateful moment in 1978 when a salesman at Digital Equipment Corporation typed out the first hundred unsolicited sales pitches one address at a time. Today, spam has become cheap, portable and as indigestible as its namesake.? From an Ellen Goodman column, Boston Globe, printed in The Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky., May 8, 2003.

I hearby call for a boycott of DEC