[SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues

[Marc Weber]

The first rule of Mail Cabal is: you do not talk about Mail Cabal. The second rule of Mail Cabal is: you DO NOT talk about Mail Cabal!
- with apologies to Chuck Palahniuk
Best, Marc
p.s. I hope we can agree on the secret official movie – "You've Got Mail."


Marc Weber  |   marc at webhistory.org  |   +1 415 282 6868 
Internet History Program Founder and Curator, Computer History Museum            
1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View CA 94043 computerhistory.org/nethistory
Co-founder, Web History Center and Project, webhistory.org 

On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Julie Cohn wrote:

> And a theme song?
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> Julie Cohn, Ph.D.
> Research Historian
> Center for Public History
> University of Houston
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> On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Janet Abbate wrote:
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>> We need a secret cabal handshake. I suggest the SSL protocol.
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>> 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…
>>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
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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
>>>> 
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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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>> Dr. Janet Abbate
>> Associate Professor, Science & Technology in Society
>> Co-director, National Capital Region STS program
>> Virginia Tech
>> www.sts.vt.edu/ncr
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Marc Weber  |   marc at webhistory.org  |   +1 415 282 6868 
Internet History Program Founder and Curator, Computer History Museum            
1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View CA 94043 computerhistory.org/nethistory
Co-founder, Web History Center and Project, webhistory.org 

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