[SIGCIS-Members] Google's poor stewardship of the USENET archive

[jcortada University of Minnesota]

Exactly.  I am sure if there is an issue with accessing material that the
Google folks will sort it out.  Thanks Ian for stepping in to help.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:

> FYI I have sent email.  Please recognize that I work at Google but not for
> Google, and I am not authorized to speak on the company's behalf without
> express permission.  Also, Google (indirectly) pays my mortgage, and I like
> sleeping indoors.  I will let this group know what I can, when I can, even
> if it's null.  Further, I would appreciate it if this was not disseminated
> to a larger forum, e.g., ClassicCmp.
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> I do know him, or more importantly, Vint Cerf knows who I am, and reads
>> and responds to my emails.  Let me see what I can do.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Chuck House <housec1839 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with Jim’s view.  Vint Cerf, for one, is well placed at Google,
>>> and passionately last time I heard about all forms of accurate Internet
>>> history.  Plus he got Google to pony up $1M per year for the ACM Turing
>>> Award.  I don’t know him or this issue well enough to be the conduit, but
>>> he’d be my recommendation for where to start.
>>>
>>> On Feb 26, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Time to complain LOUDLY to Google about this!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-a-search-company-has-made-its-internet-archive-impossible-to-search
>>> >
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>>
>> --
>> Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
>> Ph.D. Candidate
>> The Information School
>> University of Washington
>>
>> There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
> Ph.D. Candidate
> The Information School
> University of Washington
>
> There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
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James W. Cortada
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Charles Babbage Institute
University of Minnesota
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