<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The term definitely came from the Monty Python skit were the spammers (singing in the background) eventually drown out the primary message. <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. </div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 1, 2019, at 5:42 PM, Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I had thought SPAM was an acronym for Send Promo to All Mail or something similar. Am I mistaken?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Myself I was a latecomer, but around 87 with the advent of MCI Mail and Easylink I used email to promote a music tv show called SNUB on Nightflight. The great thing was the Easylink interface to telex, which was how the music business communicated. I am sure many were less than impressed when my screeds ate up their office supplies.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">joly</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 1:16 PM Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 1:02 PM Clem Cole <<a href="mailto:clemc@ccc.com" target="_blank">clemc@ccc.com</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"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mumble -- Like most marketing, I think it depends on how you define it/when you start counting. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">:-D</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div 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></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">IIRC the first use of the term Spam wrto e-Marketing was the Usenet repeated posting by a Greencard Lottery lawyer in the early 1980s, and explicitly was an allusion to the repetitive lyrics of the Pythons' spam spam spammity spam song.</div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-2664763435302859876gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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