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spam history

Let’s take a little stroll down email memory lane. In the pre-CAN-SPAM era, when dial-up was still a thing and some people paid by the minut...

Friday, April 04, 2025

Every once in a while somebody drops into comments espousing a conspiracy theory around how blocklists are “designed to extract money from e...

Monday, February 10, 2025

This certainly wasn’t the first instance of spam , but it might be the first instance of a spam related lawsuit. It all began on April 1, 19...

Friday, May 31, 2024

Roger Ebert, in addition to having been one of the best movie reviewers out there, is known to me, and to many other spam fighters out there...

Thursday, December 21, 2023

I'm not 100% sure of the exact day that I first posted to this blog, but based on what I can find in my own notes and archives, I prob...

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Check out this list of top ten email/security blogs from November 2010. You know which URLs still resolve? Which ones are clearly still here...

Friday, July 31, 2020

Recognizing the upcoming 40th anniversary of spam (the bad kind), Forbes shares 25 facts you may or may not have known about everybody'...

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Lots of people think that Canter and Siegel are the first internet spammers. Not exactly true. Long before their first excursions into bad ...

Friday, April 13, 2007