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ITT: We should ban emails, or we'll be overrun by nigerian princes!
by birracerveza 4y ago
ITT: We should ban emails, or we'll be overrun by nigerian princes!
- pjc50 4y agoReminded of https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html ; I believe at its peak one third of USENET was spam and one third was "spam cancels", instructions to delete the spam. Email ended up with voluntary-but-effectively-central anti-spam efforts like SpamHaus and the RBL as a result.