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mrbonner 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2...

Fun fact: it is spam filtering application that makes Paul Graham famous (and rich)

dang 34 days ago [–]

PG was certainly known for that (e.g. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/11/22/22-2/) but I don't think it made him rich. Selling Viaweb did.

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