From: Mahta Moghaddam <mahta@usc.edu>
Subject: Re:
Date: June 12, 2015 at 12:53:33 AM PDT
To: Ivor Catt <ivorcatt@gmail.com>
Cc: "APM-EiC@ieee.org"
<APM-EiC@ieee.org>, "massimiliano.pieraccini@unifi.it"
<massimiliano.pieraccini@unifi.it>,
"stefano.selleri@unifi.it"
<stefano.selleri@unifi.it>,
"W. RossStone" <r.stone@ieee.org>, "g.pelosi@ieee.org" <g.pelosi@ieee.org>
Dear Dr. Catt,
Thank you for contacting me. In the Cc: list of this email you will find
the authors of the article you had referenced (Drs. Pieraccini
and Selleri, whom you had also copied on your email),
the AP Magazine Editor-in-Chief at the time the article was published (Dr. Ross Stone), and the Associate Editor of the Historical
Corner (Dr. Pelosi) under whose column the article appeared.
The Magazine does provide a forum for publishing comments. Here are the
procedures and bounding parameters that I request:
1. Length of the Comments to be limited to one printed page.
2. Contents of the Comments to be focused on pointing out factual
errors, if any.
3. Comments to be sent to me; I will then forward your comments to the
authors and allow them a period of 3 weeks to submit a response (also limited
to one page) that would appear concurrently with your comments. You and the
authors may wish to confer before your comments and their responses are
finalized. Time to respond may be extended if required.
4. I reserve the right to edit/moderate the contributions of both sides.
I invite Dr. Ross Stone r.stone@ieee.org
to express his views on the above process as well, due to his higher
degree of familiarity with the article in question, since the article was
published while he was at the helm of the Magazine.
Please don't hesitate to contact me in case of further questions or
concerns.
Best regards,
Mahta Moghaddam
Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
3737 Watt Way, PHE 634
Los Angeles, CA 90089
The Editor Mahta has handed over the
publication of my reply "Conflation"
, to her Associate Editor Full
Professor Giuseppe Pelosi 2
, who is in the same Department of Florence University as the authors of the
defamatory article, and was responsible for its publication. He also promoted
the novel by Pieraccini. Pelosi will block
publication of my reply, "Conflation"
, which points out errors in the article.
Ivor Catt. Circa June
2016
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