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[ih] "Father of e-Marketing"
- Subject: [ih] "Father of e-Marketing"
- From: bill.n1vux at gmail.com (Bill Ricker)
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 13:16:15 -0400
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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.
>
:-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.
--
Bill Ricker
bill.n1vux at gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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