<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mumble -- Like most marketing, I think it depends on how you define it/when you start counting. Certainly, people used the telegraph, telex, faxes, phones, and the like to "cold call" / "get the message out" to possible clients/customers before the original DEC spam was sent in the 'modern era.' On the other hand, I've always thought of this action as the first recorded use email for marketing with the Arpanet/Internet (it was not yet called spam).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BTW; I'm not sure where the term "spam" originated (other than the reference to Monty Python's skit to describe the issue). I think it was somewhere in one of the netnews groups on the UUCP network actually (that was certainly where I first saw it and it was a bigger issue there since the links were dial-up). Somebody like Mary Ann Horton might be a good person to ask about that.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Clem</div></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aY2xlbWNAY2NjLmNvbQ%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=5a85bfc4-0954-42a9-ba80-708490af5889"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 7:16 AM Lars Brinkhoff <<a href="mailto:lars@nocrew.org">lars@nocrew.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">How about Gary Thuerk's claim to be the "father of e-marketing", does<br>
that stand up to scrutiny? He's referring, of course, to the spam sent<br>
in May 1978.<br>
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