[ih] "Father of e-Marketing"

[Clem cole]

The term definitely came from the Monty Python skit were the spammers (singing in the background) eventually drown out the primary message.  

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> On Jun 1, 2019, at 5:42 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
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> I had thought SPAM was an acronym for Send Promo to All Mail or something similar. Am I mistaken?
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> 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.
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> joly
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>> On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 1:16 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.   
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>> :-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.
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>> 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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