Re: For Your Information

[Dan Lynch <[e-mail]>]

        Reply to:   RE>For Your Information


Dave, I am terribly saddened by this event.  I have never had the pleasure of
meeting Bernstein.  Or of having an email interaction.  (I was tempted once,
but decided that brown gooey stuff would transfer in my direction.)

I have witnessed a lot of bilge on this topic over the past many months and can
honestly say that that Bernstein fails the Turing test.  I would grant him
omerta -- dead silence.  I recommend the same to all of you.

Dan

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Date: 9/15/92 11:31 PM
To: Dan Lynch
From: David A. Borman

Hi.  I'm sorry to both the ietf list with this, but I feel that it
is information that people should be aware of.

This afternoon Dan Bernstein called me up.  The topic of conversation
was the Ident document and his TAP document.  I was trying to be a
helpful person, and answer his questions to the best of my ability.
I was not able to answer all of his questions to his satisfaction.

After talking with him for over three hours, he informed me that he was
taping the conversation, and played back a short part to prove it.
His taping of the conversation was done without my knowledge or consent.

How much of it he taped, I don't know.  What he intends to do with the
tape I don't know.  He claimed to me that his taping of the conversation
was legal, and that he checked up on the legality of it before doing it.

I really don't care if there is some loophole that he thinks gives him
the legal right to tape the conversation, I still view it as ethically
wrong.

I was talking to Dan with the assumption that we were hashing things out
off the record, and that I was only giving my personal view of things.
Had I known that it was being taped, I probably would have said some
things differently, and terminated the conversation much earlier.
I did not state that I was giving any official statement as an IESG
member or as an employee of Cray Research.  If you see Dan quoting me
from this conversation, and you want clarification, please contact me.

As I said, I have no idea what he intends to do with the tape.  This
is a heads up in case he does something with it, and a warning in case
anyone else has reason to have a phone conversation with Dan.

			-David Borman, [e-mail]