In article <7wwoi5zi9x.fsf at junk.nocrew.org> you write: >How about Gary Thuerk's claim to be the "father of e-marketing", does >that stand up to scrutiny? He's referring, of course, to the spam sent >in May 1978. Probably not. I gather there was telegraph spam in the late 1800s during an era of ill-considered flat rate tariffs.