SPAM: Where it all started


	SPAM: Where it all started

BigBadWolf

8-1-2007 12:13 PM

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email, spam, internet

BigBadWolf says:

BASTARDS! Each and every one of them!

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8-1-2007 12:16 PM

BigBadWolf

Nearly two million e-mails are dispatched every second, a hundred and seventy-one billion messages a day. Most of those messages have something to sell.

8-1-2007 8:03 PM

onlinedesign

What an epitaph. "Here lies the Father of Spam".

I hate the ones the blink, jiggle and whistle all over the page.

8-2-2007 10:54 AM

constantskeptic

poop on spam, not good for you at all, both foodwise and junkmailwise

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