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Old May 5th, 2003, 05:32 AM
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Happy birthday dear spam, happy birthday dear spam...

Today is the 25th anniversary of spam e-mails!!! Spam is older than me...

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Old May 5th, 2003, 06:03 AM
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Where did you read that? 25 years ago the internet was not a large system and I doubt many businesses would have had access or even the idea of advertising over that media.
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I read it in a newspaper. It was e-mailed by the marketing people in DEC. And it was sent to the biggest mailing groups in the ARPANET system.

Could be though that It was already on May 3rd...
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