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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:34:32 -0700 From: Dave Crocker <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IP] Our first step toward correcting the "who invented e-mail fiasco" To: [email protected], Brian Randell <[email protected]>, geoff goodfellow <[email protected]> CC: ip <[email protected]>, "Barry F. Berkov" <[email protected]>, Lauren Weinstein <[email protected]>, John Gilmore <[email protected]>, Lawrence Tesler <[email protected]>, Ian Peter <[email protected]> Organization: Brandenburg InternetWorking There has been more activity in the saga of the email invention controversy. The last 'status' posting you had on this topic was the 'mea culpa' by the Post's Ombudsman. Eventually, the Post did add a major correction to the original article, negating all of the historical claims. But they also invited four folk to write followup articles: S.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, Tom Haigh, Noam Chomsky and me. Ayyadurai is the fellow who continues to claim he invented email. Tom Haigh is a professor who covers technology history; he was asked to do a history of email and to directly confront Ayyadurai's claims. I don't know what they asked Chomsky to write about. I was asked to do a personal history of working on email. After roughly two weeks of our working on our articles, the Post decided to run only mine. They released it this morning: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/a-history-of-e-mail-collaboration-innovation-and-the-birth-of-a-system/2012/03/19/gIQAOeFEPS_story.html They have not stated their reasons for declining to publish the other three. There was quite a bit of background chatter amongst folk who had early involvement in email history. It was enthusiastic and often quite enlightening As a consequence, I've started a web site for the topic: emailhistory.org d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
