RE: [cobalt-users] speaking of spam...

["Dom Latter" <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

> Noticed in one of my books (old),
> I quote:
> "Spamming is on the increase with 10 incidents in Dec 1994, 
> rising to 20 in Feb 1995"
> 
> Yes that does say TEN and TWENTY
> <g>

Spam, in its original sense, meant multiply-posted (commercial) 
Usenet messages, as opposed to cross-posted Usenet messages,
which used to be known as Velveeta.

Unwanted advertising on Usenet was nothing new, but most 
people used newsreaders that dealt with cross-posted articles
intelligently so after the first time you wouldn't see it
again.  What made Canter & Siegel so "popular" was that the 
message was posted *separately* into thousands of newsgroups
so that each time you opened up a newsgroup, there it was.

Here endeth Usenet History 101.