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- gwinerreniwg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24I still remember the early days of the Internet, when posting any remotely commercial message to Usenet (yes, kiddies, there was no WWW), would get you flamed big time: "No commercial use of the Internet" was a common rebuke. How blissfully naive we all were.
- sherifftruman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23Buried as spam.
- turnthepage, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15While we're on the topic, I In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of Ten Million,Five Hundred Thousand US dollars (US$10.5m), I just need bank account number...
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15As always, SPAM (in caps) is a registered trademark for the Hormel Foods canned meat product. Spam (in lowercase) refers to unsolicited commercial email.
- lukas88, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13What always confused me is how people hate having an inbox full of unwanted messages, yet they tolerate 20 minutes of TV commercials per hour, billboards everywhere you look, and magazines and newspapers with more advertisement than content.
Ads used to semi-useful, they could show you a new product or store that you may have had no other way to learn about. Now, ads are mainly there to brainwash you into buying a certain product. You know what and where McDonald's is, what it tastes like, what it costs... why do you need to be reminded that it exists every time you look around?
If most people are like me, they are ready for a few regulations for thought pollution, which is basically what modern ads boil down to. With TV and the Internet it is easy enough without regulation, just don't visit the sites or watch the channels than have too much advertising. But some day I want to drive to work or school and see nothing but buildings, trees, cars, and people. I don't need a giant McMuffin sandwich in my face every where I go.
It is not a crazy idea. In fact, the biggest city in Brazil, Sao Paulo, just passed a law much like the one I just described. - schoate09, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Anyone else think this was about the canned meat?
- timusca, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Brief my ass. Didn't read.
- stryker2you, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Thanks a lot...here I was all comfortable in my office forgetting about breakfast and you had to bring it up. Now you've got me wanting an egg McMuffin.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Remember when Congress allowed commercial traffic and all these Internet guerrilla groups popped up trying to attack commercial web sites?
- PARAPA, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Gary Thuerk must die!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3 I remember the first spam I ever got...It was someone selling laptops and the header read:"You want this!"
- invictus0x0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That reminds me of when we first saw commercial messages appearing over Echomail on FIDONET, the Flames would reach epic proportions !
Ahh, the memories.. - Kitsune818, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"What always confused me is how people hate having an inbox full of unwanted messages, yet they tolerate 20 minutes of TV commercials per hour"
They do? Explain Tivo and other PVRs.. - ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Adult Friend Finder existed back then?!?!?!?!?
- diggdong, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No, I thought it was an article about the legalization of murder.
- in2deep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Interesting article with good info...enjoyed it!
- TehDoctor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Shut up ====> ?
- spamly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Actually, I was born and raised in Minnesota. Later I moved to... Wait, what the hell are you guys talking about?
- tomboy501, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Nice one, skored. I just knew it wouldn't be brief when i saw the newyorker link :/
- indicas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2this has some truth to it
- Zoshchenko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I agree...how did "brief" get into the heading?
- recockulous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sure there are copies of the Cantor and Siegel spam around... but how many of you own one of the Joel Furr commemorative t-shirts, with "GREEN CARD LAWYERS - SPAMMING THE GLOBE" on it?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/joel-furr/faq/ - Assezdefromage, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Vermont has a law preventing billboards. Guess we're just ahead of time in terms of thought pollution...
- bacon_skoda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1considering it was from digg, i assumed the submitter didn't care.
SPAM = canned meat
spam or Spam = unsolicited email - Kitsune818, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I can remember when commercial messages were only an occasional occurance on Usenet.. easily filtered out, even. Eventually they choked it to the point where I couldn't stand using it anymore. Then they started showing up on IRC (I think this was 1989 or 1990), and then they started showing up in email.. but I could swear there was some spam showing up in my email inbox long before 1994. I was still using Pine..
- ps3udov3ctor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1not very "brief", but excellent article nonetheless.
- agentfoxtrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Spam will always be an issue because it costs nothing to send an email. The day ISPs start charging to send email (like a penny) will be the day we solve the spam problem.
- PedleZelnip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1For those more interested in some of the history of SPAM, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) did a documentary called "SPAM: The Documentary" on it awhile back that was actually not half bad. Googling for a torrent should help you find it.
- ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, spammers could steal people's identities and use their bank/credit card accounts to fuel even more spam sending...
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What's the signal to needless verbiage ratio on a New Yorker article?
- counterplex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Dear Friends,
My name is Dave Rhodes... - licoricewhip, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2.
- MCDupree, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Somehow I doubt that. I think spam will find a way to live forever. I mean, it costs money to send real mail right? If so, why do I constantly get advertising and "free trials" of crap I don't want?
- slonkak, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1agreed. that was not brief at all.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2The real question is : Shut up.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Maybe you'd be interested in investing that money in my scrap metal business. We've recently acquired the contract for dismantling the Eiffel Tower.
- zadadka, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Not brief, by any means, but Dugg for the fact that there are 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell Viagra (see here also : http://www.cockeyed.com/lessons/viagra/viagra.html).
- HyperJack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I honestly thought this was a history of the meat which is why i didn't click on it earlier today.
- mydave, on 07/31/2008, -0/+0Every day I have min. 7 spam in my mail. I hate spam!
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http://www.felixdelcampo.com - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Dunno about you but I get home delivery. I pretty much stopped the unwanted crap I was getting by sticking a metal "No Junk Mail" sign on my mailbox. Cost a $1.00 from the local hardware store and keeps my recycling box from filling up with useless flyers.
If you have a PO mailbox, it might be worth asking your local post office if they have a no junk mail list you could sign up for. - crazybugger, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Spam has no ending!!!
- hughesj919, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I love spam...I sign my friends up for it all the time
- guacamolly, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0tl;dr
- badwithcomputer, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1uh.....brief? there's no way i'm reading all that *****, dude.
- Bloodburn, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0Speaking of spam!
http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Aliens_vs_Predator_Web_based_MMO_GORM - z33Tec, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1I don't care enough about it to read that novel.
- MikeL123, on 10/10/2007, -26/+3The real question is: what does Ron Paul think about spam? Ron Paul. RonPaulRonPaulRonPaulRonPaulRonPaul
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