How could they have missed this?
from http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html
RMS's reaction is priceless.
Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978
Possibly the first spam ever was a message from a DEC marketing rep to
every Arpanet address on the west coast, or at least the attempt at
From Le Monde diplomatique
English edition
original to: http://mondediplo.com/2014/03/16spam
Coming to an inbox near you
A short history of spam
Spam was an in-joke, a wordy waste of time, a hustlers pitch, and now
its an inhuman and superhuman slave of crime.
by Finn Brunton
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