The first spammer was a lawyer. (I’m shocked.)
C-net has an article today on the story ofthe “original spammer” — a lawyer in Arizona. Laurence Canter wrote a Perl script to post his ad to hundreds of news groups, unleashing a firestorm (that’s why they call them “flames”) of complaints that resulted in $100-200,000 in new uiness by his account. Canter would later be disbarred in Tennessessee, in large part for his email spamming.










