[ih] "Father of e-Marketing"

[Joly MacFie]

I had thought SPAM was an acronym for Send Promo to All Mail or something
similar. Am I mistaken?

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.

joly


On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 1:16 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
>
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