The history of email spam reaches back to the mid-1990s when commercial use of the internet first became possible - and marketers and publicists began to test what was possible. See more

The SpamAssassin spam-filtering system was first uploaded to SourceForge.net on April 20, 2001 by creator Justin Mason.
In May 2000 the ILOVEYOU computer worm travelled … See more

On July 25, 2005, Russian spammer Vardan Kushnir, who is believed to have spammed every single Russian internet user, was found … See more

Commercialization of the internet and integration of electronic mail as an accessible means of communication has another face - the … See more

MAPS ("Mail Abuse Prevention System") was founded in 1996. Dave Rand and Paul Vixie, well known internet software engineers, had … See more

In June 2003 Meng Weng Wong started the SPF-discuss mailing list and posted the very first version of the "Sender Permitted From" … See more

In January 2006, James McCalla was ordered to pay $11.2 billion to an ISP in Iowa, U.S. and barred from using the internet for 3 years for sending 280 million email messages. In court, he was not represented by an attorney.
On June 28, 2006, See more