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Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel

Larry Canter
Canter at ROFLCon in May 2010
Born
Laurence A. Canter

(1953-06-24) June 24, 1953 (age 71)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Law (disbarred in 1997) and internet business
Known forFirst major commercial spamming campaign on Usenet

Laurence A. Canter (born June 24, 1953) and Martha S. Siegel (born April 9, 1948) were partners and spouses in a firm of lawyers who committed the first massive commercial Usenet spamming on April 12, 1994. They were not the first Usenet spammers, but some consider them pioneers in the modern global field of ad spamming.[1]

  1. ^ Ray Everett-Church. "Wired "The spam that started it all"". Wired. Wired.com. Retrieved December 10, 2012.

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