BTCMcBoatface on Nostr: For the benefit of others who would need to look it up: "Laurence A. Canter and ...
For the benefit of others who would need to look it up:
"Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel were partners in a husband-and-wife firm of lawyers who posted the first massive commercial Usenet spam on April 12, 1994. This event came shortly after the National Science Foundation lifted its unofficial ban on commercial speech on the Internet,and it marks the end of the Net's early period in some views, when the original netiquette could still be enforced."
"Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel were partners in a husband-and-wife firm of lawyers who posted the first massive commercial Usenet spam on April 12, 1994. This event came shortly after the National Science Foundation lifted its unofficial ban on commercial speech on the Internet,and it marks the end of the Net's early period in some views, when the original netiquette could still be enforced."