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Title: Spam Celebrates Silver Jubilee
Post by: Kees on May 07, 2003, 10:36:12 AM

The one thing we all hate about the internet, Spam, reached its 25th birthday last weekend. Hurray !

"Net historians have trawled records and found that the first junk e-mail message hawking a company or its wares was sent back in 1978. "

Click here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2996319.stm) to find out more about the birthday of this hidious thing called spam ...

Title: Re: Spam Celebrates Silver Jubilee
Post by: matt3k on May 07, 2003, 12:55:31 PM

I wonder if Al Gore invented spam also?

Title: Re: Spam Celebrates Silver Jubilee
Post by: gnarly on May 07, 2003, 01:54:29 PM

I FSCKING HATE SPAM. ITS A RIGHT ROYAL PAIN IN THE ASS.

I DONT HAVE OR NEED A SEPTIC TANK, STOP SENDING ME BLOODY SEPTIC TANK INFORMATION YOU MONKEYS!

:-x

Title: Re: Spam Celebrates Silver Jubilee
Post by: Kees on May 07, 2003, 03:07:08 PM

at this point i'm getting over 50 spam mails every day ... it sux indeed !

But ... happy birthday anyways ;-)

Title: Re: Spam Celebrates Silver Jubilee
Post by: AmiGR on May 07, 2003, 05:37:14 PM

I keep getting mails about penis enlargement methods, with my real, full name.
Somebody must be feeding sites with my address,
at a time, I got about 150 a day...
What the ones sending these emails don't realise is
that if I buy their products, is that I DON'T NEED SUCH
AN ENLARGEMENT! It won't even fit in my pants if I get
one, god damn it!