Commercial spamming started in armed forces on March 5, 1994, when a pair of lawyer, Laurence Center and Martha Siegel begin using usenet posting. The particular incident was commonly termed after the subject line of the posting as ?
Commercial spamming started in armed forces on March 5, 1994, when a pair of lawyer, Laurence Center and Martha Siegel begin using usenet posting. The particular incident was commonly termed after the subject line of the posting as Monty python Spam Sketch.
Spam" is a popular Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish. The term spam (in electronic communication, and general slang) is derived from this sketch.
Laurence A. Canter (b. June 24, 1953) and Martha S. Siegel (April 9, 1948 – September 24, 2000) were partners in a husband-and-wife firm of lawyers who posted the first massive commercial Usenet spam on April 12, 1994. This event came shortly after the National Science Foundation lifted its unofficial ban on commercial speech on the Internet, and it marks the end of the Net's early period in some views, when the original netiquette could still be enforced.
When not referring to the tasty potted meat product, spam is unsolicited junk email sent indiscriminately in bulk, often for commercial purposes. Much of it is sent by botnets, networks of virus-infected computers, complicating the process of tracking down the spammers.