Here's the theme song:
Paul
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Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 6:38 PM
To: Julie Cohn
Cc: members
Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues
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 PalahniukBest, Marcp.s. I hope we can agree on the secret official movie – "You've Got Mail."
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On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Julie Cohn wrote:
And a theme song?_______________________________________________
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On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Janet Abbate wrote:
We need a secret cabal handshake. I suggest the SSL protocol.
Janet
On Sep 3, 2014, at 2:45 32PM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:
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
On Sep 3, 2014, at 13:04 , Thomas Haigh <thaigh@computer.org> wrote:
Hmm. A cabal obviously would focus on secret conspiracy, which is always
hard to pull off on an open and publically archived email list. But if we
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.
Tom
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Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The email saga continues
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
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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
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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
e-myths-about-email_b_5756340.html
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
rre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented
-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml
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
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