[10369] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Newsweek,Wall Street Journal Etc. Where are you ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Elmer-DeWitt)
Sat Feb 19 16:16:14 1994
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 16:19:41 -0500
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
From: ped@panix.com (Philip Elmer-DeWitt)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
>FACTS which add up to a pattern of action of
>shutting the public out from what's going on and when one asks why and gets
>obfuscation from NSF..
If that's what it adds up to, Gordon, you've wasted all our time.
>I have dug on this far more than the general press Philip.
True.
>Were my successful predictions on last weeks awards **allegations** or did
>they turn out to be factual Philip??
Scoop duly noted. Have you applied for your Pulitzer yet?
>why don't you
>get on with YOUR work and leave me to get on with MINE?
Please.
>
>But as Alan Sugarman suggested unless you are willing to DISPROVE what Stroup
>is saying, sly nit picking from the sidelines doesn't accomplish much.
You've confused me with someone else. I picked no nits with Stroup.
> A
>**journalist** worth his salt should get out there and dig and show Stroup to
>be right or wrong.
Go for it.
Gordon, if you have anything further to say to me personally, I suggest you
use private e-mail. That's why God invented it. If what you want to do is
grandstand, you'll get no more public responses from me.
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