Chris Lewis | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Security consultant |
| Organization | SpamhausTechnology |
| Known for | Volunteer "despamming" Operating cancelbots on Usenet |
Christopher Lewis is a Canadian computer security consultant from Ottawa,[1][2] who fought spam on Usenet and the early Internet. Active in volunteer anti-spam efforts in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Lewis was described in Net.wars (1997) as "the best known active canceler of spam and other mass postings" at the time. In April 1998, he organized an unsuccessful moratorium with forty other anti-spam volunteers in an attempt to boycott internet service providers into doing their share against spam. He worked as a systems architect for Nortel and, as of 2017, is Chief Scientist at SpamhausTechnology.