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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by unyttigfjelltol on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @06:19AM (#43410123)
Spam exploded in 2003[1] to the modern experience of it. Before that, spam was somewhat infrequent, even without countermeasures.

I recall in the 2001 time period being so annoyed by each individual spam note that I would respond to the appropriate "abuse@" email. By 2004, it was a torrent and totally impractical, and I don't think it was because of my own notes to administrators.

[1] https://www.emailtray.com/blog/email-spam-trends-2001-2012/

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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by blitzar on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @06:38AM (#43410255)
When Gmail launched on April 1, 2004, there were two big selling points for me - storage and spam.
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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by Diederich on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @02:23PM (#43415585)
...and search. That was amazing.
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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by znpy on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:43AM (#43421539)
I can confirm it was amazing.

I got my first gmail address via an invite and it was light-years ahead of everything else.

Nowadays it's possibly worse than most other providers, and it doesn't filter spam as well as it used to. Nowadays I just dislike it.

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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by bbaron63 on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @09:42AM (#43411868)
I remember the first spam I ever received. It was in 1998 on my first day working at AOL. It promised an advanced degree from a prestigious, unaccredited institution. The spammers were somewhat honest back then.
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