We will never escape email
Too Long; Didn't Read
<strong>In July 1994, the <em>New York Times</em> reported</strong> on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/11/nyregion/professor-s-plan-backfires-e-mail-project-was-hoax.html">an email hoax </a>— one of the first of many more that would, over the next two decades, make headlines. Samuel Brown, then an assistant professor at Fordham University in the Bronx, had decided to bulk-message 150 people in Abilene, Texas. He claimed the reason was purely academic. Brown said he was “curious about what kind of a response his students would get to an assignment that would require each of them to reach 150 strangers by E-mail, or electronic mail. So, posing as a student, he tried it himself.”