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@sigcis.org [members-bounces@sigcis.org] on behalf of Dag Spicer [dspicer@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 -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Twitter: @ComputerHistory On Sep 3, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Evan Koblentz <evan@snarc.net<mailto:evan@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... 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... Cheers Brian Randell School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members