[ih] "Father of e-Marketing"

[Bill Ricker]

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 1:02 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> Mumble -- Like most marketing, I think it depends on how you define
> it/when you start counting.
>

:-D

> 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.
>

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.


-- 
Bill Ricker
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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