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IP: From the White House that Invented the Internet [or Unix strikes again djf]
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:28:41 -0500
As I told several people (reporters) , in a world where the majority operating environment that most people see is Windows (and Mac OS) most folk don't realize that file names in Unix/Linex are case sensitive.It has gotten many a computer scientist who use both Windows and Unix. It is real neat to have in Unix and obviously a real danger. I also have been caught by this several times and I am a lot lot more aware of OS features than most especially in the EOP. Dave
From: jod () ccat sas upenn edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: From the White House that Invented the Internet To: farber () cis upenn edu Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 08:49:44 -0500 (EST) NYTimes, http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/washpol/wh-email.html White House Aides' Defense in E-Mail Case Is Ignorance Related Article White House E-Mail Feud Grows (March 20, 2000) By MARC LACEY ASHINGTON, March 24 -- White House officials learned almost two years ago of a major computer problem that resulted in the mishandling of the administration's electronic mail. Now, as they defend themselves against accusations that they illegally concealed the situation from investigators, presidential aides are arguing that they lacked the computer expertise to understand the severity of the problem. "As you know, this matter involves complex technical issues," the White House counsel, Beth Nolan, said in a statement to Congressional investigators that she is scheduled to deliver next week. "Of course, my staff and I are lawyers with laypersons' understanding of the technical complexities of electronic messaging and archiving." Large numbers of e-mail messages sent to White House officials from outside the office's network from 1996 to 1998 were not properly stored in a computer archive. Specialists who have reviewed the problem say it was caused by an unintentional error when someone mistakenly capitalized the name of a computer server, writing MAIL2 instead of Mail2. As a result, when the White House received subpoenas from various investigative agencies and searched the archive for relevant electronic mail, many messages were overlooked.
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