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Tim_Tex
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03 May 2008, 2:06 pm

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/1 ... ts-please/


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03 May 2008, 8:33 pm

I wouldn't blame the Wright brothers, I'd blame the wood they used to build the plane >:O



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03 May 2008, 8:37 pm

Wow, it's only 30 years old? I thought it would have been classed as much older than that (if you're going to include junk mail, that is).


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03 May 2008, 8:42 pm

MrSinister wrote:
Wow, it's only 30 years old? I thought it would have been classed as much older than that (if you're going to include junk mail, that is).


Now that you mention it - why don't we dig through all of history for the first TRUE spam message?



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13 May 2008, 3:02 am

Impressed! Vintage SPAM

Good detective work Tim_Tex


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14 May 2008, 3:06 pm

Yeah, and I found it through my basic Yahoo browsing.


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23 May 2008, 12:38 am

sim wrote:
Now that you mention it - why don't we dig through all of history for the first TRUE spam message?


I'm imagining a cro-magnon man on top of a hill grunting loudly in the direction of many other people at the bottom of the hill.

But that's been done for centuries. "Hear ye, hear ye..."


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