The NEH did not "spam" AMS addresses; they asked me for AMS members'
addresses and I gave them to them.
I believe that the NEH does a very good job under extremely difficult
circumstances (i.e. their entire budget seems to come up for the chopping
block every year in the budgetary process). I believe our government's
neglect of the humanities is shameful: the sciences are funded about 100
times as high as the humanities (over a billion dollars a year), without
the agonizing over whether to shut down the NSF each year.
The NEH also has supported the AMS initiative Music of the United States of
America, an extremely successful program from all accounts. As you may have
heard already, MUSA has just been awarded a three-year grant of over
$130,000 from the NEH.
I apologize if the NEH e-mail newsletter offended. To unsubscribe from the
NEH Newsletter, send an e-mail to
newsletter@neh.gov
and type the word "unsubscribe" in the body of the e-mail. Your address
will automatically be
removed.
Robert Judd
At 11:59 PM 4/7/99 -0400, Hope Ehn Dennis Ehn wrote:
>It appears that the NEH has found a more attractive (to whom?) use for
>their funds than supporting the humanities -- spamming! This evening, I
>received a 14K spam (that's about 14 screens) from neh.gov, in the manner
>of an unrequested "subscription" to their newsletter. I have never
>corresponded with the NEH by E-mail.
>
>I would be interested to know whether other members of this list have also
>been spammed by the NEH. I am curious as to whether they raided the
>subscriber lists of mailing lists they consider relevant, or perhaps even
>purchased lists of addresses from companies that sell such lists to
>spammers.
>
>If your grant application was turned down, or your grant was cut, perhaps
>the misuse of NEH funds for spamming has something to do with that.
>
>Hope Ehn <ehn@world.std.com>
>
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