Re: evolution of spam

From: Robin Faichney (robin@ii01.org)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 18:15:40 BST

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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:58:07PM +0100, Vincent Campbell wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> Look out for junk text messaging, if you have a mobile phone...
>
> (The Monty Python sketch is pro-Spam).

But the term "spam" for the Internet phenomenon was inspired by the
Python sketch, even so, I believe. If you doubt it, it should be
easily checked.

> There are tecchie ways of dealing with web spam I believe, but I don't know
> them. For everyday junk mail, it's a tedious process of contacting the
> companies sending the stuff...

No it's not. Do a web search on the Mailing Preference Service.
And there's a telephonic equivalent, similarly named.

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