Random Crap Wednesday
Writing by Jose on Wednesday, 26 of March , 2008 at 2:21 pm
Man oh man… What’s up everyone. Again I have procrastinated my week away. Good news though. I got my replacement motherboard in and everything’s back to normal. Well, once I catch up with my work at home it will be normal. I took Monday off to hang out with family from Easter and get my computer back up and running.
But enough of that and now to our main feature.
This Wednesdays random crap is SPAM
OMG… if you have ever had an email account or any kind of forum or blog, you will know that spam is a very evil and nasty thing to deal with. Obviously there are precautions you can take to avoid spam. Like not putting your email address in every single box that asks for it online. I wouldn’t recommend giving your email address out to people who don’t really like you either. All they would have to do is spend about 5 minutes searching online for naughty sights and put your email address into the newsletter box and you would receive spam every single day for a very long time. That account would basically be ruined. But I’m not really going to talk to much about how to fix this though. Another time maybe.
What I want you to know is where it came from. Trust me… it’s old. The first message believed to be spam was through Western Union in the 19th Century. It was sent by Morse Code and this message was sent to a large number of destinations at once.
-.. — -.-. / -… .-. — .– -. .—-. … / . .-.. .. -..- .. .-. / — ..-. / …- .. - .- .-.. .. - -.– / ….. —– / .–. . .-. -….- -.-. . -. . / — ..-. ..-.
Translates to:
doc brown’s elixir of vitality 50 per-cent off
Pretty crazy stuff. Many people think that the only type of spamming is email but spamming is the abuse of any electronic messaging system to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages.
• instant messaging spam
• Usenet newsgroup spam
• Web search engine spam
• blog spam
• wiki spam
• mobile phone messaging spam
• Internet forum spam
• junk fax transmissions
So much spam… it makes me want to cry. Even after one day has passed on this site, I will have about 20 messages that are all spam. Some companies provide really good filters though for fighting the problem.
The first email spam was released on May 2nd, 1978. Gary Thuerk sent an unsolicited electronic message to large numbers of the users of ARPANET, promoting a new product from his company Digital Equipment. The reaction from the net community was fiercely negative, but Gary’s spam did generate some sales. Gary was interviewed on the CBC Television.
Big spamming problems didn’t start occurring though until the 1990’s though.
So now that you truly know about spam, check out what I like to do with my spam when it starts to over flow on me 
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