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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Thanks Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The other advice I have for anyone commenting on this case is to keep the argument simple.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>There are a lot of invention controversies along the lines of “Big famous company X says that it invented technology Y in (date 2), but actually plucky inventor Z had previously come up with the same technology in (date 1). Because date 1 is earlier than date 2 we should remember plucky inventor Z as the true inventor of Y, despite the PR and legal resources of company X which denied him recognition.” That’s the narrative that Ayyadurai is telling about himself, and reporters are liable to turn it into an Ayyadurai vs. Tomlinson contest. Discussion of such claims head in the direction of debates on whether plucky inventor Z’s simple prototype really counts as inventing the technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>What’s different about this case is that plucky inventor Z claims to have invented email in either 1980 or, more recently, in 1978 (and has shown code snippets that appears to come from 1982). Whereas historians already knew that simple electronic mail systems were in use at MIT in 1965, that electronic mail was sent over what became the Internet in 1971, that spam was sent in 1978, that Xerox had a recognizably modern GUI client by that time etc. So the features of Ayyadurai’s system are not the important thing in assessing his claim to be “the inventor of email.” I have no reason to doubt that he produced a perfectly good local email system. But Ayyadurai is only “the inventor of email” if nothing done prior to 1978 (or 1980 or 1982) was email.  In other words, he’s trying to use the classic “plucky suppressed inventor” narrative even though his date 1 is many years later than the established date 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>To rebut this claim one doesn’t need to designate any individual as THE inventor of email, merely to reiterate the historical consensus that email is a synonym for electronic mail and that electronic mail was in use prior to 1978 (or 1980 or 1982). However smart and likeable you are, you can’t invent something that’s already been invented.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> dave.walden.family@gmail.com [mailto:dave.walden.family@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 05, 2017 10:02 AM<br><b>To:</b> Thomas Haigh <thomas.haigh@gmail.com><br><b>Cc:</b> Christine Finn <christine.finn@gmail.com>; David Golumbia <dgolumbia@gmail.com>; Sigcis <members@sigcis.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Resources on Ayyadurai saga<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Maybe the document should be something like a friend-of-court brief that is provided to the defense attorney rather than a public document and the court if the case ever goes to court.  There is plenty of time for public documents later.  I would think that passing Tom's list below to the defense attorney would already be useful.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards, Dave<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span> <a href="http://walden-family.com/bbn/email-invention.html">http://walden-family.com/bbn/email-invention.html</a> (not updated in several years)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On Jan 5, 2017, at 7:46 AM, "Thomas Haigh" <<a href="mailto:thomas.haigh@gmail.com">thomas.haigh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Sounds like good idea. I’m busy with some other projects right now, and in any event it would be good to have somebody else take the lead on this for a while – make it more apparent to casual observers that there is a consensus in the history of computing community on this.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Here are some resources that might be useful for someone thinking of writing on this issue:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-25.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>               </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai">http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai</a>  - my main page (includes links to various video and media content that would look good in a blog post, including a Xerox video). This tries to document and evaluate every historical claim made by Ayyadurai. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-25.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>               </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/CACM-SevenLessons.pdf">http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/CACM-SevenLessons.pdf</a> my CACM article with lessons to be learned from the initial part of the case. This is more of a general reflection on what was going on from a media narrative viewpoint.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-25.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>               </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.inventorofemail.com/">http://www.inventorofemail.com/</a>  Ayyadurai’s own site</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-25.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>               </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/05/shiva-ayyaduri-email-us-postal-service/">http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/05/shiva-ayyaduri-email-us-postal-service/</a>   Boston globe article – not 100% reliable, but if you read to the end carefully you’ll get the right idea.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-25.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>               </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml</a>  One of a number of solid Techdirt posts debunking Ayyadurai, this one dealing with the 2014 effort to push a misleading “History of Email” series focused exclusively on Ayyadurai.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-25.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>               </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=shiva+ayyadurai" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=shiva+ayyadurai</a><b>.</b>Other Techdirt posts from this link, including one quoting me: <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140903/18514728409/huffington-post-finally-responds-stands-its-completely-bogus-totally-debunked-history-email-series.shtml">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140903/18514728409/huffington-post-finally-responds-stands-its-completely-bogus-totally-debunked-history-email-series.shtml</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-25.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>               </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-culpa/2012/03/01/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-culpa/2012/03/01/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html</a>  Washington Post ombudsman admitting that the story was unfounded</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-25.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>               </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/HistoriesOfTheInternetDRAFT.pdf">http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/HistoriesOfTheInternetDRAFT.pdf</a>  Introduction to special issue of I&C on Internet History in which we mention Ayyadurai’s case as an example of an attempt to fill in the gap between people’s ordinary experience and the ARPANET story. Example of a way to acknowledge appeal of the Ayyadurai narrative without endorsing its claims.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Resources on the actual history of email include</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Janet Abbate’s <i>Inventing the Internet</i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Craig Partridge’s Annals paper, “The Technical Development of Internet Email.” This is the best overview of the actual development of modern email. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>My chapter in The Internet and American Business has some material on non-Internet email and how it was eventually assimilated: <a href="http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/ProtocolsForProfitDRAFT.pdf">http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/ProtocolsForProfitDRAFT.pdf</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Best wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Tom</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Members [<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org">mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Christine Finn<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 05, 2017 9:09 AM<br><b>To:</b> David Golumbia <<a href="mailto:dgolumbia@gmail.com">dgolumbia@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Sigcis <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Shiva/Gawker, also AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I'd be happy to help with this. If we can craft something I'd be pleased to help reach a wider audience. I am already in touch with the UK Sunday Times - I contribute to them - and can make time to help with this, I don't have the tech expertise you all have, but can tell the story for the general public.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>all best<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Christine <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5 January 2017 at 09:56, David Golumbia <<a href="mailto:dgolumbia@gmail.com" target="_blank">dgolumbia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>"This is a historic victory for truth," declared Dr. Ayyadurai. "Americans have no tolerance for fake news, lies<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>i mean, it's by far not the most offensive part of this story, but this statement leapt out at me--you coulda fooled me, and PT Barnum, and every "reality show" producer, and Facebook, and, and...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><br> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=hoenzb><span style='color:#888888'>-- </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>David Golumbia<br><a href="mailto:dgolumbia@gmail.com" target="_blank">dgolumbia@gmail.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>This email is relayed from members at <a href="http://sigcis.org" target="_blank">sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/" target="_blank">http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org" target="_blank">http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>This email is relayed from members at <a href="http://sigcis.org">sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/">http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org">http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>