From: Vincent Campbell (VCampbell@dmu.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 17 Mar 2003 - 10:49:38 GMT
Hi,
There's been a short series of TV programmes on the BBC about e-mails just
like this that have ended up circling the world a few times. Trying putting
Claire Swires into Google and see what comes up.
Vincent
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> From: Lawrence DeBivort
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 2:15 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Instance of Memetic dissemination
>
> From a friend...
>
> LdB
>
>
> >> Laurie
> >> Garrett of Newsday -- and author of a great work of contemporary
> >> history,
> >> The Coming Plague -- sent this email to a bunch of her friends. It got
> >> around. Then it got loose. Reportedly she is quite steamed about it, as
> >> well she might be. But it's been circulated to thousands already...]
>
> >From a colleague on the PHIL-LIT list I find out that there
> is quite alot of analysis and discussion of this e-mail out
> there. The e-mail, how it spread, and privacy issues which
> arise, along with lots of links, on LawMeme:
>
> Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy,
> and the Internet
> Posted by James Grimmelmann on Wednesday, February 19 @
> 22:02:50 EST
>
> A journalist attends the World Economic Forum and writes her
> friends an email about the experience. Two weeks later, that
> email is on the Web, people she's never met are correcting
> her spelling, and the journalist is vowing to go back to
> longhand.
>
> Welcome to the world of accidental privacy spills. Compared
> with the problem of keeping personal email private,
> copyright and spam are easy.
>
> Davos was in the last week of January. In the next week, the
> email apparently circulated among a growing set of Garrett's
> friends and their friends. By the 6th of February, a copy of
> the email, by then forwarded several times, stripped of its
> original headers, and minus her last name, had made its way
> onto the "PH" mailing list run by the Institute for
> Psychohistory. And there it crossed the bloodstream, because
> the PH list is archived on the Web.
>
> We all know what happens once something is on the Web. On
> the 11th of February, the PH archive version of the email
> was linked from MetaFilter, a links-and-discussion site with
> strong blog community ties....
>
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