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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:navy'>Dear
FISers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Thank you for the responses to date; they constitute a most
interesting basis for further discussion. Just a few brief comments for now:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2
color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Specific thanks to Stan Salthe for
pointing to the difference between principles and examples. Further
contributors might wish to keep this in mind in formulating their comments.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2
color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>I regret that no-one has
referred to the European Union link. Is there nothing to be learned from
it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:navy'>In this vein, I must
apologize for having omitted reference, in my original document, to the
work of our friend and colleague Rafael Capurro </span></font><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><a href="http://www.capurro.de/tampere91.htm"><span
lang=EN-GB>http://www.capurro.de/tampere91.htm</span></a><font size=2
color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:navy'>. His interest in and
contributions to the subject of disinformation go back to 1991, before I
was born. As suggested by Rafael, I attach a link also to the work of Tom Froehlich,
who has written about the Society of Disinformation. </span></font><a
href="http://www.personal.kent.edu/~tfroehli/"><span lang=EN-GB>http://www.personal.kent.edu/~tfroehli/</span></a><span
lang=EN-GB>. </span><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>German
readers will be interested in a forthcoming contribution by Rafael about “Fake
News” </span></font><a href="http://www.capurro.de/pseudangelia.html"><span
lang=EN-GB>http://www.capurro.de/pseudangelia.html</span></a><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>My current plan is to respond to your contributions in two
categories, those positions with which I agree, and why and those with which I
disagree, and why.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy;font-style:italic'>Buona continuazione</span></font></i><font
size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:navy'>, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Joseph <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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