[ih] "Father of e-Marketing"

[johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)]

In article <7wwoi5zi9x.fsf at junk.nocrew.org> you write:
>How about Gary Thuerk's claim to be the "father of e-marketing", does
>that stand up to scrutiny?  He's referring, of course, to the spam sent
>in May 1978.

Probably not.  I gather there was telegraph spam in the late 1800s
during an era of ill-considered flat rate tariffs.