Watermonkey
May 2 2008, 12:07 AM
According to this article 393 ARPANET employees in 1978 received the very first SPAM email from DEC. Since then we've all grown to know and love SPAM in all of its flavors. I say we should make this a International Holiday and drink a beer in rememberance of that very first little SPAMalita that started it all back when The Rockford Files was entertaining us nightly and Jimmy Carter was messing up the Middle East. I think that was Carter's term... Anyway, here's the article in its entirety in case the above link doesn't always work: QUOTE Dublin, Ireland - May 1, 2008 - Spam is celebrating its 30th birthday on 3rd May. This is the day when, in 1978, 393 Arpanet employees received the first ever spam email in history from the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). A lot has changed since then, and instead of a handful academics, today 1.3 billion people have access to the Internet and are thus unwilling recipients of spam. Still, while it is a nuisance, PC spam is fairly easy to control with spam filters and the daily tradition of deleting half our Inboxes. Unfortunately, mobile spam is of a different calibre altogether.
As Lorcan Burke, CEO of mobile security specialist AdaptiveMobile (www.adaptivemobile.com) asserts:
"We are now in the same situation with mobile spam as we were with PCs ten years ago. While mobile spam has thus far not received much attention, two thirds of UK mobile users have been affected and in places like China, the average mobile user receives six to ten spam messages per day. The difference is that a mobile is a very personal device, and users are still very trusting when receiving messages and phone calls, given that numbers are not publicly listed and every user believes he has control over who has got his number."
While the mobile spam problem could seem relatively small compared to that of PC spam, the numbers tell a different story. Mobile phones are quickly outgrowing PCs in number and Gartner forecasts that there will be four billion mobiles compared to 1.3 billion PCs by 2010. According to research from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2007, more than 80 per cent of phone users worldwide have received spam on their mobile phone. And in the UK alone, two thirds of mobile users have been victims of mobile spam and phishing attacks according to a YouGov report (March 2008).
Lorcan believes that "The industry should do everything possible to protect users from spam, and to prevent it escalating in the same way as its PC equivalent. Users are concerned about mobile security and the responsibility lies with the mobile operators to protect their customers as they have the capability to monitor and control data traffic on their network".
About AdaptiveMobile:
AdaptiveMobile (www.adaptivemobile.com) is the leading mobile security provider of unified customer protection for enterprises and individuals. . The company offers comprehensive proactive protection from the increasingly prominent threat of mobile viruses, malware, inappropriate content, unsolicited communications and spam at a corporate and consumer level. AdaptiveMobile's software works across all bearers, all technologies and all media.
AdaptiveMobile was founded in 2003 and boasts some of the world's largest mobile operators as customers and the leading security and telecom equipment vendors as partners. The company is headquartered in Dublin with offices in the North America, Europe, South Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Reply
Csshih
May 2 2008, 03:45 AM
Yes, we must all celebrate with a couple drinks. Of orange juice, for me, not at legal drinking age  Pretty funny that you're a member of the spam patrol, and posting about spam.
Reply
bishoujo
May 2 2008, 03:46 AM
Happy Birthday Spam. May you have a short life forever on lol
Reply
the need for speed
May 2 2008, 03:48 AM
Only 30 years, Spam has got a long way to go  Still though, I can't believe that they would remember the first spam email , That kinda scares me  Meh, Nothing that great about spam as it is  Just some crap thats wastes our time( and the spammers thus the "SpamBot") lol, Anyway, sice I wasn't born then, Happy Birthday Spam May you live a prosperous short life
Reply
Inhuman
May 2 2008, 07:43 AM
I can't wait until spam dies. THAT would be a day to celebrate.
Reply
k4m1k4z3
May 2 2008, 07:47 AM
Celebrate Spam Email ? That's a bit odd. I agree with you Inhuman, Spam isn't good. =[
Reply
kobra500
May 2 2008, 08:14 PM
WTF Saint Micheal Hasnt Given a post yet... thats not like him 
Reply
Watermonkey
May 2 2008, 09:44 PM
I think Mike may have started the celebration a little early... One too many rootbeers is all it takes for some people! 
Reply
Plenoptic
May 3 2008, 04:54 AM
Happy birthday to Spam! I wonder what the first ever spam message actually said and why in the world it was sent because I am sure not many people had computers back then. Kind of funny though just how much spam is spread today. I remember Spam when it was only twenty, it has grown so much since then. I think I am going to cry.
Reply
the need for speed
May 3 2008, 05:00 AM
*hands over tissue papers* Its okay, no need to cry Yeah, Is there any link that shows the first spam message?Beside, We will mourn over Spams death, not celebrate You know why, Computers will be going down with it.Spam is a chronic illness for the computer It will go away when....The computer does...
Reply
Similar Topics
Keywords : spam 30 years 2008 celebrate birthday spam email- Free Email Service
- I am looking to start a free Email service (10)
So i find my self sitting at my server, looking at whats been going on lately. Then i notice that at
one point in time i was offering Email and i thought to myself "You know what? I could really
attract some people if i started that again!", but there was one problem in my way! I dont
want to host this service on my server, i want it to be hosted remotely. I also want it to be free.
So here is what im looking for: A website that offers user@mydomainname.com email service At least
1GB per mail box guaranteed 24/7 access $0.00 price If anyone knows of such a s...
Can You Suggest A Good Free Email Server To Download?
- (2)
Howdy, almost in response to my post about IMAP and PHP:
http://www.trap17.com/forums/php-imap-read...elp-t56913.html (i still need help with this so please
if you have experience in PHP and accessing emails using PHP help!) Im thinking i need a new
mail server to rule out the possibility it could be my current mail server. Now currently im using
the mail server that comes with the XAMPP package, the mail server is mercury32 version 4.something
i know it supports the IMAP protocol because the docs say so and it has configs for IMAP. Ive messed
around with it and ...
Halliluya! I'm Either Rich....
- ...or it's an email scam! Guess which... (0)
Email For My Members
- (6)
Dose any one know where i can get a free email serves to offer to my website members. I would like
it to be remotley hosted. I would also like it to be username@mydomain.com. I would like a free
service. I can deal with a pay one as long as it is not on $20 a month. Silent Shadow
www.zoneender.blogspot.com ...
How To Protect Your Email Account
- (6)
Hi... members /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
Today, I'll give this instruction how to protect your email from intruders, hackers, and
viruses. 1. Check your email account every day. If you found anything that you inspect them as
viruses, hacks, and intruders, immediately delete this email, otherwise, I don't know then. 2.
Please in your computer, install the antivirus (recommended) that supports the e-mail scanning
feature, this will ensures that your email account is not filled with spams, hacker's mess...
E-mail Manager
- Do you have any e-mail manager which can support you to send email on (2)
Hi all, I am wondering to have E-mail manager which can support us to send email on the specified
selected date. I have been used "IncrediMail" and I like it very much. However, when I use
123greetings.com, I realize that I can send online greeting cards on the specified date. From that
time, I am always looking for a good E-mail service, software or webmail. I cannot find it. Maybe,
you know some good softwares or webmail. If you really know it, please tell me. Thanks ahead.
/blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blush:" border="0" alt="blush.gif" /> ...
Scam Email Or I'm Rich
- Weird email saying I won UK lottery (11)
I for some reason recently received an email saying I won the UK lottery for the sum of 1,000,000
GBP. It is obviously a scam or I'm rich. Here is the email for your inspection: QUOTE
From:popowong@singnet.com.sg To:info@claimsagent.uk Message: *REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/786543X4/28*
*BATCH NUMBER:034/099/YX46* *TICKET NUMBER:005-4432-971-878* *FINAL NOTIFICATION * *We are pleased
to inform you today 13th April 2008 of the result* *of the winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME,* *held on April 2008 .You won the sum of £1 000,000.00 GBP* *file X...
Pop3 Email Supported?
- Trying to receive zzn.com email in my client (2)
Hi, at the moment I am running a test to offer visitors to my web site a free email address via
zzz.com ( ZZN Free Email ). This seems to work, however (the reason why I am asking here is because
I cannot find satisfactory answers in their FAQs and support does not seem to get back to me),
although it is advertised on their web site that you can receive your email in your email client
rather than as webmail, it does not deem to work. I got in touch with support to ask if that was a
service restricted to paid users only (nothing about that mentioned on their web site anyw...
Scam Email I Recieved Today
- An obviously fake scam email I got. Check out the emails (4)
An obviously fake email I recieved in my hotmail account. Check out the headers: QUOTE From:
SONG LI (erijinfo5@eircom.net) Sent: Sunday, 24 February 2008 4:23:50 PM Reply-to:
slisong@yahoo.com.hk The message itself: QUOTE Good Day , I'm Song Li, I work with the
Hang Seng Bank here in Hong Kong. Although the internet is a very hard place to meet people because
you don't know who to trust, what to believe and what not to. I have an obscured business
suggestion for you. There is the sum of 19,500,000.00 Dollars in my bank "Hang Seng Bank" Hong kong....
What Do You Thinks Of This Email
- what do you thinks of this email (11)
on the Feb 4, 2008 1:53 PM i have gotten this email CODE
[size="2"] subject Hello signed-by yahoo.co.uk [/size]
[color="#FF0000"] Hello My name is goodness, i saw your profile today and became
intrested in you,i will also like to know you more,and if you can send an email to my email
address,i will give you my pictures here is my email address (goodnessand500@yahoo.com) I
believe we can move from here! Awaiting for your mail to my email address above.
goodness.[/color] ...
Gawab.com Review
- A really good email service provide (4)
These is a good email service which I would like to mention its Gawab.com,its been personally tried
by me and has lot of features,you can have your own skins and a lot more here is a breif pointwise
review of these email service provider. GAWAB.COM This email service offers you:-> These are
the account features: 1.storage options for webmail 2. Various Storage Options Web-Mail 3.POP/SMTP
Support 4.High availability of user names 5.Password Protections & Reminders These are the
composing emailfeatures: 1.Spell Checker 2.Rich Text Format/HTML Support 3.Arabic Virtu...
A Short Article About Phishing And Spam Emails
- Maybe this will help those who are unsure (0)
Hi everyone, the idea of this little topic is for me to chatter on about Phishing emails, those
annoying emails that pretend to be from someone like Paypal and turn out to be a Turkish, Korean or
Nigerian group of so called "hackers" determined to steal your cash, also I feel like talking about
general spam such as "Enlarge your manhood one billion times with this wonder-drug" type emails..
This isnt pre-planned s i dont know where i will end up but here we go. Just yesterday i checked my
emails and ive recently used paypal to transfer a trivial amount of money to my ba...
Increase In Spam...
- (0)
I have an 8 year old Yahoo! Mail account and for the past month or so I have noticed a huge
increase in the number of spam emails I receive. No only I get tons of spam (100-150 emails daily),
but some of them get into my Inbox. And I'm sure that didn't always happen. I have to admit
I have been pretty careless when it comes to reveling my email to some "questionable" websites (
/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> ), but I never
had such a huge amount of spam. I wonder if this is a general thing? Have you no...
Spam In Yahoo Mail - An Easy Way To Block In Bulk?
- (2)
I've had a hotmail and yahoo account for years and years. get a ton of spam in my hotmail
acount, but right now, i am only concerned with my yahoo email acount that receives about 100-200
spams a day. aside from the spams, my yahoo id is "calkid". calkid is a very popular screen name
now and i even get emails that are meant for other accounts. i even get other peoples account names,
numbers and paswords at times. the only explaination i can think of is that there are other
calkid's, but they have #s at the end of their screen name(folowing me? i hope so....). so...
Favorite Or Best Email Service
- (62)
I was just wondering what is everybodys favorite Email service. I have a hotmail and a yahoo. I have
tried aim's email and it's really slow and i dont think the service is all that great
because the servers were down often. Hotmail and yahoo are both good, reliable, and i have never
encountered a time when the servers are down. My favorite overall is hotmail though. What is yours?
And why?...
Mail Providers For No Spam
- (0)
List of disposable e-mail providers or short time e-mail: spaml.com mintemail.com guerrillamail.com
shortmail.net tempemail.net/.bin/.org if you guys know more, reply to be added....
World's Biggest Free Email 45gb
- World's Biggest Free Email 45GB (21)
Search Engine with 45Gigs.com is planted. Take a look at Free Email www.45Gigs.com is a Free 45
GB Email Account. FREE! You will find: My Documents Folder Calendar Address Book and more
Sign Up is free so tell your friends about us. http://www.45Gigs.com Coming soon with AJAX
look /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> ...
Make Own Email Box?
- Do you have any idea....?? (18)
Hello buddy I want to know how we can make our own email box. I mean ..supose I have a website
(www.website.com) then how I shall make my own email box for example (myname@website.com) ? I want
any link of website who offer this thing. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)"
border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> thanks in advance. /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle"
emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />...
Yahoo Copies Gmail/gtalk Set Up Within Their Own Email
- (8)
Well this morning actually is when I notice that yahoo decided to add in their yahoo messenger
within their email. Interestingly enough the set up looks almost familiar, like I have see it
before...hmmm... oh thats right gmail/gtalk have something just like it /ohmy.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":o" border="0" alt="ohmy.gif" />. Or close to it since it is
not a direct copy of the gmail/gtalk set up, it makes me wonder if Hotmail and msn messenger teams
are working on something as well to help them try and gain ground on google products and idea's
they ...
Hotmail Controls Spam Better
- (14)
I'm using GMail since June 2005. I love the sleek interface with no graphics and also the ease
of use. I really went after it because it was then offering the highest space for inbox. I also
have a Hotmail Account, eventhough I use Gmail I love Hotmail. The best part of Hotmail is that its
spam filters are more strong than that of GMail. I receive an average of 50 spam mails each day,
some even skip the spam filter and is displayed in Inbox instead of moviing it to spam folder.
Whereas in Hotmail I seldom get any spam. The inteface is also so good and easy an now t...
Rss
- The Email killer? (5)
With the release of IE7, and its built-in support for RSS, this just might be the coming of age for
RSS technology. RSS has been around for some time now. It has, however, found acceptance only in
tech-heavy circles. I've myself been using RSS for a year now - started with Google Ig, then
used Opera RSS reader, and lately have been using Netvibes for reading RSS. RSS holds obvious
advantages over email. The non-intrusive pull-mechanism, as opposed to the email push-mechanism,
makes RSS somewhat resistant to spam. Managing the feeds becomes easier since they are oft...
100 Free Email Without Spam
- 100 FREE EMAIL WITHOUT SPAM (2)
Are you want try free mail with 100% no SPAM >>try this >> www.cashette.com...
Looking for spam, 30, years, 3, 2008, celebrate, birthday, spam, email
|
|
Searching Video's for spam, 30, years, 3, 2008, celebrate, birthday, spam, email
|
advertisement
|
|
