<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ironically, Gmail flagged this message as spam.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RB<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 1, 2019, at 7:58 AM, Vint Cerf <<a href="mailto:vint@google.com" class="">vint@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">i think the spam wasn't quite e-marketing as much as it was just abuse of a mailinglist....<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">v</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><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" class="">lars@nocrew.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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 class="">
that stand up to scrutiny? He's referring, of course, to the spam sent<br class="">
in May 1978.<br class="">
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