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		<title> History of SMTP (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[i]The following excerpt is from the [url=http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/]Free Software Magazine[/url], March 2005 Issue, written by Kirk Strauser. To read the entire article, you may [url=http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/]download the magazine here[/url] [PDF]. Also thanks to [url=http://www.shaftek.org/blog/]Yakov Shafranovich[/url] for making us aware of this publication.[/i] "Spam has existed since at least 1978, when an eager DEC sales representative sent an announcement of a product demonstration to a couple hundred recipients. The resulting outcry was sufficient to dissuade most users from repeating the experiment. This changed in the late 1990s: millions of individuals discovered the internet and signed up for inexpensive personal accounts and advertisers found a large and willing audience in this new medium." <a href="https://circleid.com/postshistory_of_smtp">More...</a>]]></description>
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