[Sussex] Lawyers invented SPAM

[Mark Harrison]

I _remember_ the original Green Card spam.

To discover that it was 10 years ago makes me feel old.

To discover that people whose expertise I respect DON'T remember it makes me
feel very old.

Crikey. I'll go get my bus pass :-)

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Teale" <gteale at cmedltd.com>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:26 PM
Subject: [Sussex] Lawyers invented SPAM


> So..
>
> It says on Slashdot that SPAM is a 10 year old phenomenon today (Happy
> birthday SPAM).   More interestingly it says here..
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5189340.html
>
> ... that SPAM was invented by lawyers!  As if their reputation wasn't
> bad enough already.
>
> -- 
> Geoff Teale
> Cmed Technology     /   Free Software Foundation
> gteale at cmedltd.com  /   tealeg at member.fsf.org
>
> Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sussex mailing list
> Sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sussex
>
>