[SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues

[Thomas Haigh]

Hmm. A cabal obviously would focus on secret conspiracy, which is always
hard to pull off on an open and publically archived email list. But if we
threw in some exotic rituals and perhaps a little human sacrifice then we
might still make the grade. I guess we could take some of the billions BBN
is allegedly making by distorting email history and use it to rent a rather
nice subterranean lair and a set of exotic dark costumes to wear while
conducting official cabal business.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: members-bounces at sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces at sigcis.org] On
Behalf Of McMillan, William W
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:48 AM
To: members
Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues

Let it go, Dag?  Are you kidding?  I might be, at best, an amateur
historian, but I do so hope I'm a genuine member of the " Internet cabal of
SIGCIS 'historians' "!

I've never been in a cabal before, but I doubt cabal members let things go.
We must do something cabal-ish.

... if we know what that would be.

Bill

________________________________________
From: members-bounces at sigcis.org [members-bounces at sigcis.org] on behalf of
Dag Spicer [dspicer at computerhistory.org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:30 PM
To: members
Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues

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-fiv
e-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-biza
rre-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
URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell

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