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.
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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 See more

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

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

MAPS ("Mail Abuse Prevention System") was founded in 1996. Dave Rand and Paul Vixie, well known internet software engineers, had started keeping a list of IP addresses which 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" proposal, that would later become the 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 … See more