The first commercial spam was posted on Usenet by Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel. They used a Perl script to post their message, “Green Card Lottery – Final One?”, to about 5,500 discussion groups.
The first commercial spam was posted on Usenet by Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel. They used a Perl script to post their message, “Green Card Lottery – Final One?”, to about 5,500 discussion groups.