Chun-Nan Hsu hou taigu-bang e phoe:

Dear all:

I was invited to serve as a program committee member of an academic
conference called "Coopis 2002". The main mission of a program committee
is to review research papers and determine whether to accept or reject a
submitted paper.

This conference is one of many small conferences that will be held
jointly in Irvine, CA. The conference have two program chairs,
who I am not acquainted with. I don't know why they invited me.
Then there is a chair of all these conferences. He is an associate
professor named "Zahir Tari" from Australia, who I am not acquainted with
either.

On their official Web site, my affliation, unfortunately, was mistakenly
listed as 

"Academia Sinica, China"

I sent a letter to program chairs ask for a change but they never reply,
neither did they change the Web page. 

Today I received an e-mail from the chair requesting us to distribute
"call for papers" flyers. I took the chance to reply a mail to ask them
correct it. See below.

His reply is extremely annoying. See below.

I've never been this angry in my life. I couldn't even say a word for a
moment.

Now I finally calm down to write a reply to him.

My dear TI fellows, please, do me a favor, teach him a lesson,
send him a e-mail, tell him we Taiwanese will not let anybody twist our
nationality without our consent. Teach all those listed in cc as well.

Lan choat-tui boe-sai ho lan e kiaN-sun sui tio chit-khoan e bu-jiok.

Tosia, thank you.

-- KunLam

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:30:27 +0800 (CST)
From: Chun-Nan Hsu 
To: Zahir Tari 
Cc: , ,
Ugur Cetintemel , 
Subject: Re: flyers for federated event @ UC Irvine -- pls advertise

Dear Sir:

What if I list your nationality on a Web site as "Palestinian"?
Who give you the right to assign my nationality? 

Your web master made a mistake, I cannot even request for a change?
An average level academic conference will send out the list to committee
members to double check whether they mispell their name and affliations,
a below average conference correct their mistakes,
a poorly organized conference refuse to correct their mistakes and
blame people for their phrasing.

Now, may I humbly make a request you a favor to take my name out of the
committee list in your spare time? This, I am sorry, is an order.

-- Chunnan


On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Zahir Tari wrote:

> 
> Stefano and Calton.
> 
> I HATE this type of e-mails. This person has to RE-PHRASE
> his e-mail OTHERWISE I will NOT update the Web site.
> Is it clear.
> 
> Zahir
> ======================================
> 
> 
> > However, on the official conference Web cite
> >
> > <http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/coopis/2002/cfp.html>
> >
> > My nationality is mistakenly listed as "China" instead of "Taiwan."
> 
> >
> > I have sent e-mail to Dr. Pu and Dr. Spaccapietra but they never reply.
> > Please have your Web master replace "China" to "Taiwan" *NOW*. I hope this
> > is the last e-mail that I need to send you on this matter.
> 
> mmm... I hope this is not an order!
> 
> 
> 
> Zahir
> 
>