[ih] Free Speech and ARPAnet?

[John Levine]

In article <20150717205923.08F0828E137 at aland.bbn.com> you write:
>
>> I don't know of anyone being reprimanded for anything.
>
>I do, though I remember because they were rare and proved the point.
>
>The two I remember are:
>
>* A vendor rep sent a list of products in what we'd now call a spam mailing
>  in 1984.  Vendor was on the 'net because they sold stuff to ARPANET
>  users.  Vendor rep got reprimanded.  I wish I remember the name of the
>  vendor.

Was that the infamous DEC salesman spam in 1978?

http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html

R's,
John