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Spam's tenth anniversary is today (Netcraft)Spam's tenth anniversary is today (Netcraft)Posted Mar 6, 2004 0:59 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)Parent article: Spam's tenth anniversary is today (Netcraft)
Canter and Siegel were not the first to post off-topic advertising messages to Usenet, but they were the first to do it in bulk. Canter and Siegel posted an individual Usenet message to each of several thousand newsgroups. Because they did this, a user who subscribed to 100 newsgroups would have to delete 100 distinct copies. And C and S were aggressive about it, offering to help others do the same as them.
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