[SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues
Andrew Meade McGee
amm5ae at virginia.edu
Thu Sep 4 17:12:49 PDT 2014
Nice call on the song, Paul.
We might add this classic as something to belt out at our secretive,
world-shaping meetings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3FN0Ah4RE
To go along with Janet's proposed secret handshake, perhaps a hidden signal
known only to the computer historians of the mail cabal: a double-click on
nose?
As for Tom's Haigh's excellent notion of a secret lair, could CBI or the
Computer History Museum swing a National Science Foundation grant for a
volcano base or a castle in Switzerland?
Or, daresay, a .bat cave?
--AMM
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Andrew Meade McGee
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP at si.edu> wrote:
> Here's the theme song:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUjnqH3kMw
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> Paul
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> *From:* members-bounces at sigcis.org [members-bounces at sigcis.org] on behalf
> of Marc Weber [marc at webhistory.org]
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 04, 2014 6:38 PM
> *To:* Julie Cohn
> *Cc:* members
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> *Subject:* Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues
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> 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 <http://www.computerhistory.org/staff/Marc,Weber/>
> | marc at webhistory.org | +1 415 282 6868
> Internet History Program Founder and Curator, Computer History Museum
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> computerhistory.org/nethistory
> Co-founder, Web History Center and Project, webhistory.org
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> On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Julie Cohn wrote:
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> And a theme song?
>
> *****************************
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
>
> 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
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> 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
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> hard to pull off on an open and publically archived email list. But if we
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> 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.
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>
> Tom
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: members-bounces at sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces at sigcis.org] On
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> Behalf Of McMillan, William W
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:48 AM
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> To: members
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> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues
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> 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
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> 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
>
>
> ________________________________________
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> From: members-bounces at sigcis.org [members-bounces at sigcis.org] on behalf
> of
>
> Dag Spicer [dspicer at computerhistory.org]
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:30 PM
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> To: members
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> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues
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>
> 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
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> journalism-even a high school student wouldn't cite them in a paper.
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> Let it go.
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> Dag
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> Dag Spicer
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> On Sep 3, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Evan Koblentz
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> <evan at snarc.net<mailto:evan at snarc.net <evan at snarc.net>>> wrote:
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> HuffPo is now claiming that everyone else -- they even mention SIGCIS
> -- are
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> the ones with the agenda and conspiracy!
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-j-nightingale/the-history-of-email-fiv
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> e-myths-about-email_b_5756340.html
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> On 09/03/2014 11:50 AM, Brian Randell wrote:
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> Hi:
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> Techdirt has an article "Why Is Huffington Post Running A Multi-Part
> Series
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> To Promote The Lies Of A Guy Who Pretended To Invent Email?"
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> at:
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> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-biza
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> rre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented
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> -email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml
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> Cheers
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> Brian Randell
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