[SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues

[Janet Abbate]

We need a secret cabal handshake. I suggest the SSL protocol.

Janet

On Sep 3, 2014, at 2:45 32PM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:

> 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…
> 
> P
> 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
>> 
>> --
>> Dag Spicer
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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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Dr. Janet Abbate
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