[SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues

[Paul N. Edwards]

As the silliness level mounts, let me contribute: 

I suggest we drive around in cabal cars and lay an undersea cabal for our secret messages. Or we could just kick cabal around…

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On Sep 3, 2014, at 13:04 , Thomas Haigh <thaigh at computer.org> wrote:

> 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
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