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28 May 2003

I just received SMS spam to my cell phone for the first time ever. I used to have a pager that had an email address and I’d get spam to that all the time. The purpose of the pager was to let me know if our servers went offline, so I had to keep it on all night long. Most spam was sent at 4am. That sucked.

Andy asked if the SMS spam was advertising Viagra. It wasn’t. It was advertising a cell phone booster antenna, so I suppose it was like Viagra for your phone.

Tim
July 9, 2003 11:45 PM

Just wait until you get them in Spanish—that is when I knew things were bad.

bob
February 7, 2006 10:27 AM

i like butter

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