Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:40:26 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Different subject now,you have been warned! [was:Re:[WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any goo
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 09:18 AM 3/29/05 -0500, Michael Walsh wrote:
>> omni at omniphile.com 3/28/2005 10:04:10 PM >>>

>>Prior to regular business use of e-mail there generally wasn't any
>>quoting in replies.  Just, "In reference to your letter of March 22...".
>
>Interesting.
>
>Perhaps the business enviroment had no interest in dealing with usenet,
>and therefore felt they could ignore it all.

Actually, until the internet went truly public, business use of the
internet for advertising was prohibited and about the only business use it
had was dealing with government agencies by government contractors.  Even
in the early 90s when I got access there were still lots of discussions
about the new commercial use of usenet and news, and many who resented it
deeply.

Strangely, one of the most enabling technologies for SPAM was DNS.  Back
when you had to pretty much specify the routing in the mail address it
would have been too complicated to blind SPAM people.  Now you can just
send to every-name-you-can-think-of at every-domain-you-can-find.  I get
dozens of such attempts on my domain every day.

-- Mike B.
--
Why do irons have a setting for permanent press?