[10569] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Strange Events at the National Science Board meeting Today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Sun Feb 27 05:33:06 1994
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 13:17:02 -0800
To: Stephen Wolff <steve@nsf.gov>, Gordon Cook <cook@path.net>
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
At 3:09 PM 2/13/94 -0600, Stephen Wolff wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Feb 1994, Gordon Cook wrote:
>> Sounds like relatively little info becomes part of the public record Steve.
>
>Proposals are the property of the proposers; they become public
>information if and whenm they are awarded. In our experience, losers are
>reluctant to have us release their unsuccessful proposals, though of
>course they may make them public if they choose.
>
>> I asked you I believe a week ago privately to explain your FOIA statement to
>> me that you funded 8 nodes for 6.454 million a year in 1991 and another 10
>> in 1992 for 4.5 million a year for T-3, when to the best of my recollection
>> the public record up to this point has said you funded 16 nodes not 18.
>
>Yes, but you sent in the FOIA request within a day or so, and since I've
>got to respond to that why should I do it twice?
Gordon,
It sounds to me like you are trying to play the part of the Internet
Geraldo Rivera, and it's not working well. Tabloid TV on the Internet...?
Might I suggest:
1. Stephen is not on-line to answer your every question. There are MANY
sources within the NSF (and outside of the NSF) that you REALLY should be
using BEFORE asking Stephen. It's funny, but I don't see someone like
Brock asking Stephen dozens of questions a week, yet he seems to write a
lot about this...
2. Lighten up a bit. Instead of always attacking Stephen, why not try
asking things in a more objective manner. I'm NOT suggesting that when
something is amiss that you not go after it, but you are on the attack
dozens of times a day.
The above example (and an earlier one from someone else telling you where
the maps have been for over a year) from Stephen points out the problem
I've mentioned in #1 and #2 above. You are threatening someone that if
they don't respond in a day that you'll file a FOIA and then when you do,
you wonder why they don't answer your original question. Face it, unless
you start doing what a journalist should be doing (using lots of resources,
not "just" asking Stephen), Stephen won't have enought time to post here at
all. Use it when it's appropriate -- yes, but please put your mind in gear
before you fingers press the enter key.
You've also made it a big thing that a friend of yours was told that the
meeting was "on" and then it was called off. There are so many reasonable
possibilities (the person meant that the closed session was still on) that
I can't help but wonder what your motives are in this constant attack on
the NSF and Stephen (almost a personal vendetta)... I don't think this is
what "J" school teaches as being good, objective journalistic technique --
is it?
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Glenn Tenney
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