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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">What also needs to be investigated, by likely an independent professional ethics
body, is the biased, unscholarly, and defamatory attacks on Ayyadurai</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">(‘SIGCIS
Blog’, 2012),and the clear conflict of interest, as exemplified in the list of individuals in Mr. Haigh’s “Acknowledgements” section thanking those who helped him
</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">in denigrating Ayyadurai:
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-style: italic;" class="">“Acknowledgements: Thanks to the dozens of people who sen</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-style: italic;" class="">t me hundreds of messages
after learning that I was working on a response for the Post. Many helped to read and
shape earlier drafts. In no particular order: Evan Koblentz, Catherine Lathwell, Peter
Meyer, Dave Walden, Debbie Deutsch, Marie Hicks, James Sumner, Ken Pogran, Tom
Van Vleck, Dag Spicer, Mark Weber, JoAnne Yates, Murray Turoff, Al Kossow, Ramesh
Subramanian, David Alan Grier, Paul McJones, Nathan Ensmenger, David
Hemmendinger, Jeffrey Yost, David Moran, Peggy Kidwell, Debbie Douglas, Alex
Bochannek, Bill McMillan, Len Shustek, Petri Paju, Elizabeth Finler, Dave Crocker, Ray
Tomlinson, Pierre Mounier Kuhn, James P.G. Sterbenz, Ben Barker, Jim Cortada, and
</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-style: italic;" class="">Craig Partridge.” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">(‘SIGCIS Blog’, 2012)
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">A significant cluster or coalition of the individuals listed in the Acknowledge-
ments have a direct and indirect, and/or close affiliation to Raytheon/BBN, who
</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">claims they “invented email,” as evident on their website (Raytheon/BBN, n.d.),
which brandishes the ‘@’ logo with its numerous press and marketing r</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">eleases
</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">claiming that it is the home of the “inventor of email,” Mr. Ray Tomlinson. </span></p>
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