CDR: Re: Dealing with Spam from Esther Dyson

Joe Baptista baptista at pccf.net
Fri Oct 27 20:03:34 PDT 2000


Tim - you have to understand that Esther is trying to remain relevant in a
world that increasingly sees her as last years meat rack.  Ester knowns
me, in fact she spent most of her last trip to Cairo trying to convence
lawyers that I should be sued for something.  She blames me for scaring
off president Mubarak from the ICANN show.  The woman is unfortunately
paranoid and suffers from persecution dementia.

Someday someone may wright a comedy on the lady, I consider it more
tragedy.  I think Ester would of been happier in life being a common
housewife - or dominatrix.  Unfortunately she was born into the Dyson clan
and as a result has always been pushed to excell.  But that has not been
the case.  On a technological front she is all show - no substance.

And that show started early in life.  She herself can confirm that her
schooling at harvard was for no other purpose then socialization.  I think
meeting the right people was her angle for attendance.

I understand her venture capital positions have mainly failed, her
chairmanship of ICANN has been an absolute disaster.  She's being disposed
as the chair this november - that does not mean ICANN will be a better
place - just less blond.  She's not a blond you know - but she certainly
has disposition of one.

But alas Tim - I like her.  I think she's sexy in her own special way.  Ol
gals ya know have some of the softtest skin ;-)

Joe

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:

> 
> By the way, a few minutes with Google turned up other instances of 
> Esther Dyson's spamming.
> 
> Here's just one such URL, along with the opening paragraphs:
> 
> http://channel.nytimes.com/1998/03/28/technology/28dyson.html
> 
> March 28, 1998
> 
> I Got Spammed by Esther Dyson:
> Release, the Old-Fashioned Way
> 
> By LISA NAPOLI
>   ecently, I got a note from the publisher of Release 1.0, the 
> venerable newsletter put out by the venerable (and mythic) godmother 
> of all things digital, Esther Dyson.
> 
> It wasn't a casual e-mail. It wasn't a letter asking me to write for 
> the newsletter. It wasn't even a personal note asking me to have 
> lunch, or attend her annual conference (which took place this week in 
> Tucson, where, for the first time, non-Release subscribers were 
> permitted to attend.)
> 
> The note was plain old-fashioned snail mail spam, asking me to fork 
> over nearly 700 bucks for a subscription.
> 
> Dear Lisa,
> 
> Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski believe that someone who's achieved 
> your stature in our industry should be part of the Release 1.0 
> family. That's why they've suggested I write this letter to you.
> 
> 
> Stature? How did they measure that? Did Jerry Michalski remember 
> sitting at the same table with me at a conference luncheon once? Did 
> Esther ever read my now deceased column, Hyperwocky? Did some 
> computer notice my name on all those mailing lists?
> 

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