First Spam Message Ever Sent Made No Mention of Mortgage Refinancing or Viagra
Monday, April 28th, 2008This coming week will mark the 30th anniversary of the birth of e-mail spam. According to technology writer Brad Templeton, the first spam message was sent on May 3, 1978, by a Gary Thuerk to 320 e-mail Arpanet addresses and read as follows:
DIGITAL WILL BE GIVING A PRODUCT PRESENTATION OF THE NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE […]
800 Offers of Employment in a Single Day
Monday, October 15th, 2007I must be doing a great job. Why else would I receive more than 800 offers of employment via e-mail in a single day? I’m certain that’s more than Steve Jobs, Al Gore, and Warren Buffett get in a month, combined.
The 800+ e-mails that arrived in my in-box yesterday morning contained variations of the following […]












