[SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues

[Ian S. King]

Well, since this about a supposed "Internet cabal" - break out the skinny
neckties!
On Sep 3, 2014 9:56 AM, "McMillan, William W" <william.mcmillan at cuaa.edu>
wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Dag Spicer
> Senior Curator
> Computer History Museum
> Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
> 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard
> Mountain View, CA 94043-1311
>
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>
> Twitter: @ComputerHistory
>
> 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
> URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell
>
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