[ih] "Father of e-Marketing"

[John Levine]

In article <CAAbKA3U=KP5Y0E7e5o9MZbcyGCokC0+guZ+59aTXNRkeM08heQ at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>Q. Was up-thread reference to Telegraphic spam via flat rate a reference to
>TELEX or to prior art?

I sald late 1800s.  Telex wasn't developed until the 1930s.

I am at a conference several thousand miles away from my library but it
might have been in the book Victorian Internet, which is about the community
of 19th century Morse telegraphers.