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I remember Usenet before Eternal September and before Canter and Siegel, when the backbone was NSFnet and before the National Information Infrastructure Act of 1993.

If someone was doing anything commercial over e-mail or usenet you could contact their "sysop" or their upstreams and have them removed.

Wow, blast from the past! I actually got a check from one of those pay per hour ad services more than 20 years ago, and to this day it's still the only check I've ever received :-)

(It was 15 USD so costed almost as much to cash in Europe as it was worth)

They did pay! I was how I was paying for the dial up cost to my parents!