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Happy Birthday SPAM

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By Bob Sacks

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There is an interesting and odd birthday this week. Thirty years ago someone did something that has grown and morphed into a global enterprise. There are those who are happy about it and those that use every fiber in their being to defeat, diminish and hopefully destroy its very presence. I am, of course, talking about public Internet enemy No. 1 … SPAM.

The first SPAM message was sent on May 3, 1978. It was sent by Gary Maynard of the Digital Equipment Corporation.

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Bob Sacks

Bob Sacks (aka BoSacks) is a printing/publishing industry consultant and president of The Precision Media Group (BoSacks.com). He is also the co-founder of the research company Media-Ideas (Media-Ideas.net), and publisher and editor of a daily international e-newsletter, Heard on the Web. Sacks has held posts as director of manufacturing and distribution, senior sales manager (paper), chief of operations, pressman, circulator and almost every other job this industry has to offer.

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