[SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues

Julie Cohn cohnconnor at comcast.net
Thu Sep 4 11:45:34 PDT 2014


And a theme song?

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Julie Cohn, Ph.D.
Research Historian
Center for Public History
University of Houston
315 McElhinney Hall
Houston, TX 77204-3007
cohnconnor at comcast.net

On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Janet Abbate wrote:

> We need a secret cabal handshake. I suggest the SSL protocol.
> 
> Janet
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> On Sep 3, 2014, at 2:45 32PM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:
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>> As the silliness level mounts, let me contribute: 
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>> 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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>> P
>> On Sep 3, 2014, at 13:04 , Thomas Haigh <thaigh at computer.org> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>> 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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>>> Tel: +1 650 810 1035
>>> Fax: +1 650 810 1055
>>> 
>>> 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-fiv
>>> e-myths-about-email_b_5756340.html
>>> 
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>>> 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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>> Paul N. Edwards
>> Professor of Information and History, University of Michigan 
>> A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010)
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>> Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
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> Dr. Janet Abbate
> Associate Professor, Science & Technology in Society
> Co-director, National Capital Region STS program
> Virginia Tech
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