Talk:History of spamming

Earlier electronic spam (1971)?

There is a reference to an earlier spam email as being 1971 (and apparently referenced in Wired, although I cannot confirm this) at: http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html Watman 11:25, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Move more discussion from Spam (electronic) to this article?

I notice that the Spam (electronic)'s section on the history of spamming appears to be longer and more complete than this article. Maybe more of the discussion there should be moved here? Wrs1864 04:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Merge of Gary Thuerk

I'm proposing we merge the Gary Thuerk article into this one. As noted in both articles he was the world's first spammer. Although the incident is notable, that does not make him notable. When a person is responsible for a single event or news item of lasting notability, yet the person himself is remembered less than the incident, we usually make the article about the incident and not the person. That puts the focus in the right place, and helps avoid WP:BLP problems. We could just retitle the article to the "DEC spamming incident" or something like that, but the article is a mini-stub and doesn't really stand on its own. I'm not sure there's enough there, although considering Brad Templeton wrote a book about it, maybe someone could expand it into a real article. Unless that happens it's probably more useful just to merge it in here as a paragraph in the history of spamming. Wikidemo (talk) 16:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

merge I agree with this reasoning. Wrs1864 (talk) 17:59, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I concur. The Thuerk article is certainly not worth retaining. Thuerk merits no more than a footnote. Proclius (talk) 09:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Computing

I have removed the WikiProject tag, as this article is either a redirect or deleted. If you oppose, please restore the tag. Thank you, fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 16:03, 30 March 2009 (UTC)