[SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues

Wed Sep 3 09:30:15 PDT 2014

If you were to start critiquing items appearing in the HuffPo, you would have a lifetime of work ahead of you.

Fortunately for us, their very name reeks of triviality and marginal journalism—even a high school student wouldn’t cite them in a paper.

Let it go…

Dag

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On Sep 3, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net<mailto:evan at snarc.net>> wrote:

HuffPo is now claiming that everyone else -- they even mention SIGCIS -- are the ones with the agenda and conspiracy!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-j-nightingale/the-history-of-email-five-myths-about-email_b_5756340.html

On 09/03/2014 11:50 AM, Brian Randell wrote:
Hi:

Techdirt has an article "Why Is Huffington Post Running A Multi-Part Series To Promote The Lies Of A Guy Who Pretended To Invent Email?”

at:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml

Cheers

Brian Randell

School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
EMAIL = Brian.Randell at ncl.ac.uk   PHONE = +44 191 222 7923
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