[Air-l] Doctorow on Dealing With Trolls

[Mary-Helen Ward]

After three unsolicited and unacknowledged approaches from Reid  
Cornwell I asked him not to write to me again. He replied politely  
and I haven't heard from him since. At least, not with that name.

M-H

On 17/05/2007, at 10:46 PM, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:

> Yes, I think we should be very wary of getting involved with dr. reid
> cornwell.   his empire is expanding of course.  if you google him you
> will see that he has at least 3 different institutes/centers/
> foundations all related to his corporate entity, he has several
> conferences, which he seems intent on leveraging academic expertise
> to promote.  To me, it sounds very much like a profit from
> conferences system, leveraging academic expertise, which I find
> distasteful.  I also find it distasteful that he has appropriated the
> emails from the list and is spamming members.  It is spam in as much
> as it was unrequested and there is one profit making entity
> involved.  If you received his personal invitations, i suggest you
> think twice, because it is likely that everyone on the list received
> very much the same invitation.  I personally wouldn't want to have
> one of his conferences on my vita, i think it would have negative
> mojo to some people who have been bothered by him before.
>
>
> Jeremy Hunsinger
> Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
> School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> (www.cipr.uwm.edu)
>
> Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a
> thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
> think. --Byron
>
>
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