[ih] "Father of e-Marketing"

[Bill Ricker]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:30 AM John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> replied to Joly
McFie mrn13w at mail.gmail.com> :

> >I had thought SPAM was an acronym for Send Promo to All Mail or something
> >similar. Am I mistaken?
>
> You are mistaken.  It was definitely an allusion to the Monty Python skit.
>

It is however a delightful retronym to explain Spam as SPAM to a PHB that
wouldn't appreciate reality, so thank you Joly for sharing that !

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Bill Ricker
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