Who were Canter and Siegel?
They were lawyers, authors, and Usenet newbies _par excellence_. Super-newbies. Honorary Permanent Newbies. When they sit around the net, they sit *around the net*… C+S weren’t the first spammers, but they were so gothically clumsy about it, and so intent on making a buck, that people were terrified and infuriated into starting alt.current-events.net-abuse (which has since been replaced by the news.admin.net-abuse.* groups. Since then, they’ve parted ways (rumour has it they were married when they spammed, and have since gotten a divorce.) Lawrence Canter was permanently disbarred, in part because of his history of net abuse. Martha Siegel was last heard from a few years ago, when she was trying to go on a lecture tour promoting her new, revised version of the book she and Canter wrote together on how to abuse the net.
