Happy birthday (and a bit) to SPAM

Send this information to EVERYONE!  (just kidding)

The first spam message sent on what was to become the Internet--Arpanet--is attributed to Gary Thuerk, who on May 3, 1978 sent a message to a mailing list of 393 people promoting a new computer model from the now defunct Digital Equipment Corporation.

Today approximately 70% of email traffic is SPAM, but it is reducing.

Read more: http://www.techhive.com/article/2037525/spams-birthday-and-hotmails-closure-lead-email-milestones.html#ixzz2SUUFs2eU