First spam ever

Brad Templeton provides a copy of what's believed to be the first unsolicited commercial mass-emailing ever sent, an advertisement from DEC sent out over the ARPAnet in 1978. Fascinating to see the brief selection of responses, including Richard Stallman(GNU guy)'s defense of it.

(Thanks to Cat B. (not to be confused with Cat F. or Kat B.) for the pointer.)

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