On 04/24/02, Dale Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's academic, but I'm not sure that's the case - the date or the point of
> view. My recollection is that attitudes, and AUPs, were even more
> restrictive as to commercial use of the net early on - it was, after all,
> the Green Card Lottery in 1994 that really introduced the concept of spam to
> the net. That was usenet, not e-mail, but on the whole it's been downhill
> from there.
I refer to '96 as the start of big-time e-mail spam because
that was when Sanford Wallace's Cyber Promotions was most
prolific. I worked for his upstream's upstream at the time;
after we got rid of him he moved to Sprint, and then AGIS.
--
J.D. Falk "say your peace" -- Scott Nelson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (probably a typo, but I like it)
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