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========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:59:24 EDT
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Wesley J. Miller ((8-444) 919-254-9774)" <pundit@VNET.IBM.COM>
Subject: CM> Understanding SPAM
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I have always been under the impression that SPAMming was the intentional sending of messages to a particular sender or senders with the intent of keeping his/her/their computer so busy with inbound mail that it couldn't send any out. In radio we'd call this jamming, I suppose. I seem to recall an incident of not too long ago where this was done and the powers that be were doing their best to find the culprit. (hope they hanged him.)
Is there a difference re. SPAM, or at least a set of descriptive adjectives to differentiate, between thoughtless mass-mailings (as in the Dec Salesman), vicious mass marketing and malicious jamming?
Wesley Miller
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Wesley J. Miller ((8-444) 919-254-9774)" <pundit@VNET.IBM.COM>
Subject: CM> Understanding SPAM
X-To: cyhist@maelstrom.stjohns.edu.
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
I have always been under the impression that SPAMming was the intentional sending of messages to a particular sender or senders with the intent of keeping his/her/their computer so busy with inbound mail that it couldn't send any out. In radio we'd call this jamming, I suppose. I seem to recall an incident of not too long ago where this was done and the powers that be were doing their best to find the culprit. (hope they hanged him.)
Is there a difference re. SPAM, or at least a set of descriptive adjectives to differentiate, between thoughtless mass-mailings (as in the Dec Salesman), vicious mass marketing and malicious jamming?
Wesley Miller
______________________________________________________________________________
|
_/\\_ | snail mail: MDTA/660/E109; Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA / W \\ | phone: (919) 254-9774 (tie line 444)
\\_ M_/ | internet: wjmiller@us.ibm.com
\\/ | vm id: wesley at ibmusm23
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