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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Behalf Of McMillan,
William W
Sent: Wednesday,
September 03, 2014 11:48 AM
To: members
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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[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
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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
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