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		Canter and Siegel gained astonishing notoriety on the Internet in April by advertising their services as immigration lawyers on every one of thousands of "newsgroups", the electronic noticeboards on the Internet--a technique known as "spamming" (see "A spammer in the networks," 19 November 1994).
		Canter and Siegel seem to regard "geeks" in the way that some people view Filipino maids: plentiful, cheap, easily fired once they've done what you want--and not to be socialised with.
		Canter and Siegel counter that the violent reaction to their message comes from a small elite that has had the Usenet to itself for years, and resents other people using it to make money.
	kumo.swcp.com /synth/text/new_scientist_cantersiegel_review (2705 words)

	Usenet Abuse: Can the Net Be Saved From Itself?
		Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, two attorneys practicing law in Phoenix, are conceivably among the two most reviled dwellers of cyberspace.
		Canter’s and Siegel’s ad violated a fundamental rule of "netiquette" -- the informal Usenet code of conduct that has developed over time -- that users not abuse a communal resource intended for intellectual pursuits by hawking their products or services.
		Canter’s and Siegel’s method of disseminating their ad was considered particularly obnoxious because they indiscriminately "spammed" their message across innumerable news groups ("spamming" is net jargon for repeating the same information numerous times, derived from a Monty Python episode featuring a restaurant serving a tasty dish of Spam, Spam, sausage, eggs and Spam).
	www.freibrunlaw.com /articles/articl10.htm (1091 words)

	Fun_People Archive - 8 May - The American Way Raises its Ugly Head
		Cybersell is an spin-out of the law firm of Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, who are partners of their immigration law firm, Canter and Siegel.
		Canter and Siegel's reticence on the ad-on-the-Internet idea has been fodder for several weeks worth of news and mailing-list discussion.
		Canter and Siegel have been the focus of intense criticism on several computer networks since April 12, when they posted an advertisement offering their legal services on thousands of Usenet bulletin boards, called news groups.
	www.langston.com /Fun_People/1994/1994ALT.html (820 words)

	NY Times - Creation of Cybersell
		Siegel have been the focus of intense criticism on several computer networks since April 12, when they posted an advertisement offering their legal services on thousands of Usenet bulletin boards, called news groups.
		Siegel said the law firm made so much money from it's ad -- offering, for $95 per person, to help foreign nationals fill out free applications for United States Government "green card" work permits -- that it decided to continue with the ads.
		Canter said he and his wife planned to write a book telling other companies how to advertise on the Internet.
	www.l-ware.com /nyTimes_cybersell.htm (460 words)

	Lecture 2: Netiquette
		Canter and Siegel were not new to controversy.
		Their law licenses were suspended in 1987 by the state bar associations of Florida and Tennessee, for conduct that the FL Supreme Court deemed "contrary to honesty." They resigned from the Florida bar in 1988 rather than fight subsequent allegations of neglect, misappropriation of client funds, and perjury filed against them by the bar.
		Canter, for his part, was disbarred in Tennessee for his spam.
	people.engr.ncsu.edu /efg/379/f01/lectures/wk02/lecture.html (2531 words)

	Dan's Opinion #2: Green Cards and Spam
		The husband-and-wife legal team of Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel shocked the net back in 1994 by posting their advertisement for immigration services (related to a U.S. green-card lottery) to 6,000 different newsgroups in blatant violation of the rules against off-topic postings, multiple postings, and (in many newsgroups) against commercial advertising in general.
		All of this shows Canter and Siegel to be slimeballs (in my opinion), but I wouldn't have considered them to be worth making any sort of fuss over, except for the latest insult from Martha Siegel.
		Siegel who could perhaps be counted on to show professional courtesy and overlook her transgressions against the net while throwing the book at all who retaliate against her (via hate e-mail, for instance).
	dan.tobias.name /controversies/archives/opinion2.html (665 words)

	Making Your Fortune on the Internet
		Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel manually posted a short message offering information on the government’s annual green card lottery to Internet Usenet newsgroups they thought immigrants might read.
		Canter and Siegel present their side of the story in a briefly best-selling book, How To Make a FORTUNE on the Information Superhighway (HarperPerennial, $13).
		Canter says the overwhelming response of hate mail, phone calls, and faxed complaints was certainly uncalled for over a "small commercial posting on a public electronic bulletin board." I’d liken it more to walking through every publicly-owned facility in town, interrupting every meeting in progress to read a totally unrelated ad.
	members.tripod.com /RichMann/bookman3.html (1407 words)

	Canter & Siegel Story
		But Martha Siegel is neither deterred nor repentant.
		She sees the dispute as part of a wider struggle between the new pro-commercial users of the Internet and the academic community who once dominated the network but are now losing control.
		The reaction against Canter & Siegel is a clear demonstration of what happens if an organisation oversteps the mark.
	www.coin.org.uk /roadshow/presentation/canter.html (4372 words)

	Seattle Post-Inteligencer - Cybersell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For the transgression of sending what amounted to unsolicited electronic junk mail over the publicly owned Internet, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel became the targets of a tar-and-feathering in cyberspace.
		Canter and Siegel said they didn't exactly set out to make advertising history when they developed a technique for automatically broadcasting commercial messages on the Internet, a practice that has since been dubbed "spamming."
		Canter and Siegel, who said they got hundreds of responses and $100,000 worth of business from their Internet postings have set up company offering services on information superhighway marketing techniques.
	www.l-ware.com /SeattlePost.htm (313 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Battle for the Soul of the Internet -- Jul 25, 1994 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There was nothing very special about the message that made Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel the most hated couple in cyberspace.
		And either a consensus is reached or the combatants exhaust themselves and retire from the field.
		Canter and Siegel may head the most- hated list, but they are hardly alone.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,981132,00.html (3367 words)

	A brief history of spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Canter and Siegel were not the only early spammers; they were soon (around December 1994) joined by one Michael Wolff, who spammed Usenet with ads for his book on Internet culture.
		Others fax-bombed and otherwise harassed Canter and Siegel and other early spammers; see the types of missives that were being exchanged -- including the urgent notice that "Canter and Siegel...
		Roger Clarke analyzed spam as aberrant online behavior, and the gentle marketing folk of the time were horrified at the Canter and Siegel incident.
	www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/linux/library/l-spam/l-spam.html (1119 words)

	Spamming
		Commercial spamming started in force on March 5, 1994, when a pair of lawyers, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, began using bulk Usenet posting to advertise immigration law services.
		The first, promulgated by Canter and Siegel themselves, is that "spamming" is what happens when one dumps a can of SPAM luncheon meat into a fan blade.
		Attorney Laurence Canter was disbarred by the Supreme Court of Tennessee in 1997 for sending prodigious amounts of spam advertising his immigration law practice.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spamming.html (5318 words)

	Wachovia Small Business - The Beginnings of Email Advertising
		Canter and Siegel were met with threats of legal action and even death.
		Canter and Siegel went on to form a company specializing in mass Internet mailings.
		In fact, we were all set to call Canter and Siegel to get some juicy quotes on how profitable it can be to send millions of emails around the world.
	wachovia.com /small_biz/page/textonly/0,,447_972_1697_1991_2004,00.html (276 words)

	The father of modern spam speaks \| Newsmakers \| CNET News.com
		On April 12, 1994, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, two immigration lawyers from Arizona, flooded the Internet with a mass mailing promoting their law firm's advisory services.
		Indeed, for Canter and Siegel, it was simply business.
		Canter was disbarred from practicing law by the Supreme Court of Tennessee in 1997, partly because of his e-mail advertising campaign.
	news.com.com /2008-1082-868483.html (2203 words)

	Wired News: The Spam That Started It All
		Their names were Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel.
		Canter and Siegel, a husband-and-wife law firm, decided to join the lottery frenzy by pitching their own overpriced services to immigrant communities. But these two were not your run-of-the-mill hucksters.
		Canter and Siegel chose the Internet, specifically Usenet newsgroups, as their vehicle.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,19098,00.html (846 words)

	JCIL \| The Postman Always Rings 4,000 Times: New Approaches to Curb Spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Before 1994, the average Internet user received little unsolicited commercial email, or "spam." But that all changed in April 1994, when enterprising Arizona lawyers Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel sent spam advertising their immigration law "services" to approximately 8,000 Usenet newsgroups reaching approximately 20 million people.
		It inspired irate Usenet users to flame Canter and Siegel in such great volume that the attorneys' ISP's computer crashed.
		Following in Canter and Siegel's footsteps, countless direct marketers have taken the lawyers' technique to a new level and sent their ads to thousands of individual email accounts at a time.
	www.jcil.org /journal/articles/188.html (469 words)

	BASIS International, Ltd. - Spam-Free: Protecting Yourself From Slick, Spongy Advertisers
		It all began on April 12, 1994, when Arizona lawyers Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel launched the most notorious single spamming incident and bombarded more than 6,000 Usenet newsgroups with an offer to help people apply for U.S. work permits.
		While the messages were almost universally decried as an abuse of the Usenet, Canter and Siegel refused to back down or apologize for their actions.
		The resultant uproar caught the attention of the national media, landing Canter and Siegel a book deal and exposing the world to the idea that you could put virtually any message you liked in front of millions of pairs of eyes at almost no cost whatsoever.
	www.basis.com /advantage/mag-v2n2/spam.html (1862 words)

	Spam, spam, spam, spam - 07 January 1995 - New Scientist
		LET's begin with what's good about Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel's book.
		The title is a publisher's dream: that hot topic, the Internet, mixed with the promise of riches.
		Canter and Siegel gained astonishing notoriety on the Internet in April by advertising their services as immigration lawyers on every one of thousands of "newsgroups", the electronic notice boards on the Internet - a technique known as "spamming" (see "A spammer in the networks" 19 November 1994).
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg14519593.800.html (265 words)

	Amazon.ca: U.S. Immigration Made Easy: Books: Laurence A. Canter,Martha S. Siegel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the perusing of it that I've done, I found it to be not entirely uninformative, but I certainly wouldn't give it accolades, and, given it (and its authors') background, I wouldn't pay money for it if you held a gun to my head.
		Beware, these are the pair that invented spam.
		Laurence Canter lost his license to practice law after sending out the infamous green card spam on Usenet.
	www.amazon.ca /U-S-Immigration-Easy-Laurence-Canter/dp/0873376129 (620 words)

	Amazon.com: U.S. Immigration Made Easy: Books: Laurence A. Canter,Martha S. Siegel,Ilona M. Bray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are.
		by Laurence A. Canter (Author), Martha S. Siegel (Author), Ilona M. Bray (Editor) "If you're considering immigrating to the United States, or are helping someone who is, then this book was written for you..." (more)
		Go ahead: type "Canter and Siebel" into Google, and see what you get.
	www.amazon.com /U-S-Immigration-Easy-Laurence-Canter/dp/1413300367 (987 words)

	Laurence A. Canter, Martha S. Siegel: U.S. Immigration Made Easy - Bøger
		Laurence A. Canter, Martha S. Siegel: U.S. Immigration Made Easy
		Written by two expert immigration attorneys who have obtained legal entry for thousands of foreign nationals, U.S. Immigration Made Easy covers every possible way to legally enter and live in the United States.
		Attorneys Canter & Siegel explain how the U.S. immigration system really works, and show you how to qualify for: visas green cards citizenship Step-by-step instructions show how to fill out and file forms and how to approach the enormous INS bureaucracy.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/1413300367 (508 words)

	U.S. Immigration Made Easy (U S Immigration Made Easy) - Nolo.com Laurence A. Canter & Martha S. Siegel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Book Description: Written by two expert immigration attorneys who have obtained legal entry for thousands of foreign nationals, U.S. Immigration Made Easy covers every possible way to legally enter and live in the United States.
		Attorneys Canter & Siegel explain how the U.S.immigration system really works, and show you how to qualify for:
		Download Description: Written by two expert immigration attorneys who have obtained legal entry for thousands of foreign nationals, U.S. Immigration Made Easy covers every possible way to legally enter and live in the United States.
	www.lawresearchguide.com /p/product_0873378997.php (593 words)

	LegalEthics.com: The Intersection of Ethics and the Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This USA Today article discusses the case and provides some insights on how other states and authorities may view UPL claims relating to Internet activities.
		4/9/02: The father of modern spam speaks -- on April 12, 1994, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, two immigration lawyers from Arizona, flooded the Internet with a mass mailing promoting their law firm's advisory services.
		Canter was subsequently disbarred from practicing law by the Supreme Court of Tennessee in 1997, partly because of his e-mail advertising campaign.
	www.legalethics.com /recent.law (2290 words)

	Rediff Guide to the Net Special: Eight Years of Spam
		And a community collectively gasped at the audacity of two immigration lawyers from Arizona, who sent out a mass mailer titled "Green Card Lottery" to thousands of Usenet newsgroups' users, breaking an unwritten code.
		For the lawyers, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, the ruse was a roaring success.
		A Napster-like network might be able to stem the tide of spam mail messages flooding the Internet.
	www.rediff.com /search/spam.htm (191 words)

	Martha Siegel Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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	www.bookfinder4u.com /search_author/Martha_Siegel.html (653 words)

	Quotes from the Evil Twins, Canter and Siegel
		Quotes from the Evil Twins, Canter and Siegel
		Everybody knows that Canter and Siegel, the original Green Card spammers, wrote a book in 1994 encouraging others to follow in their footsteps.
		by Laurence A. Canter and Martha Siegel, from HarperCollins 1994.
	www.robotwisdom.com /~jorn/net/canter.html (1125 words)

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		On June 18, eye Net reported how this wife-and-hubby law team sent an ad for the American "Green Card lottery" to thousands of newsgroups (win a work permit raffle run by the U.S. government; C&S offered to fill in a few forms for merely hundreds of dollars).
		But Furr's mailbox soon brimmed with offers of legal assistance, even monetary help -- anything to thwart the most hated husband- wife team in Usenet history.
		For instance, eye calls them the "Two-Bit, Suck-My-Left-Nut Lawyers" -- Martha and Larry don't own that name either.
	www.eff.org /Misc/Publications/E-journals/Eye/940901.eye (739 words)

	NetVillage : Spammer and Spamming
		Soon, it came to refer also to the flooding of Usenet newsgroups with junk messages.
		After a pair of lawyers, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, started using bulk Usenet posting as a means of advertisement, the term came to include unauthorized commercial use of the noncommercial Usenet medium.
		The first, promulgated by spammers Canter & Siegel, is that "spamming" is what happens when one dumps a can of SPAM into a fan blade.
	www.netbros.com /SpammerSpamming (759 words)

	OMISystems
		They posted mass mailings that promoted their services to thousands of Usenet newsgroups, labeling the notice "Green Card Lottery."
		In Net speed, the husband and wife partners, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, came under fierce attack for using the freewheeling discussion groups for commercial gain.
		Typically, "spam" is defined as unsolicited commercial e-mail from marketers that have no prior business contact with you.
	www.omisystems.com /press_ar_4.htm (974 words)

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