[94605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who was the last legit spammer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Etaoin Shrdlu)
Mon Jan 29 10:54:47 2007
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:52:14 -0800
From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <redirect-11825129@remus.csulb.edu>
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Matthew Black wrote:
> Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Travis H. wrote:
>
>>> Hey, was discussing something from the long distant past recently.
>>> Specifically it was my memory of the last legitimate spamhaus...
>>
>> "Legit spammer"? Perhaps you're thinking of Sanford Wallace's
>> cyberpromo and AGIS?
>
>> http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/9710/msg00018.html
>
> Kanter & Seagal's Green Card spam? I think they were the first
> wide-spread spam. Anyone recall the year/date? I'm thinking 1993.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canter_&_Siegel (April 12, 1994)
Perhaps you are thinking of Clarence L Thomas IV, who posted the day
after the Northridge quake (also in 1994), with a post about the coming
end of the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup_spam
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