Re: memo

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> wow, that report looks great. if I had to make one comment, it'd be
> that i think # of cases (ls almd | wc -l) might be more useful than #
> of HTML files in table 1, but it's not a big deal.

I thought about that ... I have it in my private summary table, but I  
needed to explain away the oregon thing ... why we had so much data  
and no privacy problems in Oregon.  Plus, I wanted the html files to  
be part of the total number of pages thing at the bottom ...

> > Schultz, by the way, seems to alternate between wanting to take  
> > credit for
> > this and being scared to stick his neck out.  He had the gall to  
> > say that
> > "we did you a big favor" by getting me this data ... my  
> > understanding was he
> > didn't do shit.  :)  Anyway, he's dangerous and seems to want to  
> > dine out on
> > this story (he approached the deputy u.s. attorney who specializes  
> > in pacer
> > and started talking to him as if he knew inside information ...  
> > luckily this
> > guy knows me but Schultz know that).  Anyway ... just a heads up to  
> > watch
> > your back.
>
> yikes! thanks for the warning. i talked to him yesterday and he said
> after talking to you his plan was to keep quiet and only talk about it
> to counsel, but he never mentioned that... thanks

good .... I hope he is quiet.  He has inside knowledge but didn't risk  
his neck, so he definitely needs to shut up.  :)  he might just have  
been trying to be my friend or impress me, but didn't achieve either  
of those aims.

Carl