SPAM Blights E Mail Fifteen Years On
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Spam blights e-mail 15 years on
By Darren Waters Technology editor, BBC News website

Spam continues to blight e-mail exactly 15 years after the term was first coined and almost 30 years since the first spam message was sent. The term is
thought to have been coined by Joel Furr, an administrator on the net discussion system Usenet, to refer to unsolicited bulk messages.

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