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Father of spam says he has no regrets
Gary Thuerk sent promo e-mail in ’78
Gary Thuerk says being called the father of spam has brought him a certain notoriety. "People wanted to come and talk to me. Want my autograph. Picture. All that stuff. And I like doing it."
There’s a glaring omission on Gary Thuerk’s business card: No e-mail address.
That’s unusual, given that the Colorado Springs resident is an information technology consultant.
Is it because he doesn’t want to get junk e-mail? "No, not really," said Thuerk. "My e-mail address has changed several times."
The omission is particularly ironic. Thuerk has been dubbed the "father" of a type of e-mail that Internet users around the globe despise: spam.
An article in the March 2003 issue of PC World magazine cited Thuerk as the person who sent the first unsolicited commercial e-mail over an early version of the Internet called the ARPANET.
The date: May 1, 1978.
By Roger Fillion, Rocky Mountain News
Full Story: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_4569238,00.html
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