What is SPAM !!
Last week, Farcaster was dominated by discussions about spam. Dan wrote a post The spam filtering dilemma. I took this opportunity to dive into history of spam. It's always interesting to me to explore the origins of words, and this four-letter word indeed has a fascinating story. In 1994, when the internet was gaining mass adoption, the word "spam" began to be used for any irrelevant and unsolicited message sent en masse.USENETEstablished in 1980 - USENET, a global distributed discussion sys...
