It’s hard to imagine that it’s only 10 years since the first SPAM was posted to Usenet, in the intervening years we’ve since been sent everything from offers of Green Cards, University Diplomas, Get Rich Quick schemes, Viagra, Debt consolidation, and more recently various viruses.
It’s a sad reflection that every method of communication is now smothered in advertisements from random companies (both legitimate and otherwise) trying to peddle their wares on the general public.