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COPYRIGHT 1993 ISSN 1055-4548
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Volume 7, Issue 2 Issue #66 March 1994
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Disclaimer/Statement of Policy.............................Staff
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From The Editor.................................Scott Hollifield
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Submission Guidelines......................................Staff
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Information Superhighway?..........................Dean Costello
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An Internet Intro.....................................David Moss
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Mark's Toy Box.......................................Mark Maisel
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Jackboots on the Infobahn......................John Perry Barlow
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Local Music in March................................Judy Ranelli
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Nonprofits on the Information Superhighway....CCSD press release
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Special Interest Groups (SIGs).........................Eric Hunt
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Known BBS Numbers...................................Luke Whitley
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DISCLAIMER
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Publisher, BTN
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606 Twin Branch Terrace
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We thank you for taking the time to read our offering and we hope that
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you like it. We also reserve the right to have a good time while doing
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all of this and not get too serious about it.
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FREEBIE!!!
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GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT! Systems That Offer Free BTN
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The following boards allow BTN to be downloaded freely, that is
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with no charge to any existing upload/download ratios.
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ADAnet One Alter-Ego Bone Yard
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Bus System The Castle Channel 8250
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C.A.B. The Comfy Chair! Crunchy Frog
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DC Info Exchange Final Frontier The Guardian
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Hardware Hotline Homewood's Hell Hole Joker's Castle
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Leaping's Lounge Lemon Grove Lion's Den
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Martyrdom Again?! The MATRIX Milliways BBS
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The Outer Limits Owl's Nest Playground
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Safe Harbor Southern Stallion Starbase 12
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Thy Master's Dungeon Weekends BBS
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(This list includes some systems which are not local to Birmingham and
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therefore not included on our BBS Numbers list.)
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If you are a sysop and you allow BTN to be downloaded freely, please let
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me know via The Matrix or Crunchy Frog so that I can post your board as
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a free BTN distributor. Thanks.
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NOTE! I misplaced my monthly "Freebies" notes. If you contacted me
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to have your board placed on this list, and it's not there, my apologies.
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Please notify me again! - s.h.
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NEWSFLASH!
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NEWSFLASH!
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NEWSFLASH!
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NEW AGE OF ENLIGHTMENT BEGINS!
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**>> L U K E W H I T L E Y <<**
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kicks off his benevolent reign on
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the Known BBS Numbers List
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this month.
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See From The Editor and the List itself for details.
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BTN SHAMELESSLY HOPS ON
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YET ANOTHER BANDWAGON!
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This issue is a special neat-o trendy Information
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Superhighway edition of BTN.
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See From The Editor.
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THE PURPLE TOUPEE
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finally makes it onto
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our BBS List!
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Sorry for the holdup, guys.
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THE EDITOR Scott Hollifield
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Tired of hearing those two words yet?
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Information Superhighway. Makes you just want to spit, doesn't it?
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Yeah, yeah, we have an understanding, I can see. You and I are part
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of the real vanguard. We've been using modems out of our own personal
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homes for months, or years; we've already got free access to more
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information than we could ever possibly want or need; and we've been
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getting along just fine without some big national movement that Al Gore
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happens to like the sound of.
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So what's the big idea?
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That's what this issue, and subsequent issues of BTN will be
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exploring. Not just the same old _Time_ magazine pap about 500-channel
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cable, and how many colleges use the Internet, and how it's
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revolutionizing the world of communications and all that dull stuff.
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Sure, we're going to be talking about the Net, but we're going to be
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dealing with it using a specific angle: how it can and will be affecting
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YOU.
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Not you, the American consumer or middle-class tech junkie. You,
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local BBS user. You, citizen of Birmingham or surrounding
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municipalities. You, reader of BTN.
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You can pick up anything off the newstand about how the so-called
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superhighway is going to be affecting daily life, but here's some
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fastballs for you: What does it mean, here and now? What's coming?
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What can *YOU* expect? How does The Matrix fit in? What's going on
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while you sleep at night? Why are local BBSs likely to be left out
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in the cold? What bizarre, unrecognizable cyber-construct will Bob
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Crawford and Damion Furi transform into, years down the road? And most
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importantly, WHY IS THE "INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY" GOING TO TURN OUT
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NOTHING LIKE WHAT PEOPLE EXPECT?
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Stay tuned.
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Meanwhile, pick up a flag and march to the beat in welcoming Luke
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Whitley to our cozy cyber-family. Luke is the new Ubermensch of the
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BBS List as of this month. Hailing as co-sysop of Southern Stallion,
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Luke loves to call BBSs and apparently has way too much time on his
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hands; therefore, he's perfect for the job. Wish him luck!
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Luke can be reached on The Matrix, Crunchy Frog, or Southern
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INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY:
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What The Hell? Dean Costello
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No doubt that over the last couple of years, you have heard your
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fill of something called the "Information Superhighway". It has been
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mentioned everywhere from commercials for computer companies to a
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recently aborted merger of Bell Atlantic and TCI (the king-hell cable TV
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system of them all, centered here in DC) to proposed deregulation of the
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Bells to Vice President Gore. The purpose of this article is to give you
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an idea of what it may be, and the issues that surround it.
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Many people have differing interpretations of what the Information
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Superhighway will be. Telecommunication companies refer to it as the
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"Land of Milk and Honey". Cable companies look at it as a convenient
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way of getting pay-per-view into everyone's homes. Big computer
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hardware and software companies look at it as the defense buildup of the
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'90s. Acquaintences of mine look at it as a wonderful way of getting
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entertainment pumped directly into the house. Scientific researchers
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look at it as a way of both text and video information to be
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disseminated very quickly. I *hope* that it will be a fast means of
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getting a specific datum. The most cynical version of the proposed
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system is from a friend of mine, Jet Thomas, who is developing
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management systems for the government: "What I figure may very well
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happen is that the current administration, after failing to create what
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it really wants, will look at the Internet and say, 'Well, there you
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go.'".
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So, a good question to ask at this stage is, "What is the
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Information Superhighway?" (I plan to use "IS" for "Information
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Superhighway" from here on out.) So, I consulted a system called
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"Fedworld" which I firmly believe will be the keystone of the entire IS.
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Fedworld is a computer system that is run by the Department of Commerce,
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and is a collection of, well, a lot of information centered around
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government operations. And I do mean "a lot". You want to know what
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President Clinton said at a press event on Sunday? This is the place.
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You want a copy of the National Performance Review? This is the place.
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You want to FTP to Fedworld? Come on in. It is on the Internet as well
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as being hooked into approximately 150 other federal computer systems.
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Anyway, I logged into Fedworld and searched out the IS. Imagine
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my suprise when I came across a very fine document from December 20,
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1993, entitled "Background Briefing by Senior Officials". It is
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designed to give a background for the speeches presented by VP Gore and
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Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown in December 1993 which formally
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presented the IS to the country.
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"...What the changes in technology to which the Vice President's
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speeches and Secretary Brown's speeches will basically be
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responsive to really mean is that for the first time since we've
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had a telecommunications -- since telecommunications has been a
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central part of the economy is that -- is the possibility for
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absolutely pervasive competition in every single line of business
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of telecommunications. And therefore the desired end point is
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to move to -- is to move to a point ultimately where any company
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can offer any services through any network to any set of consumers.
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That's the desired end you'd like to reach to, and where all of
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the facets of the industry are competitive."
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"Obviously, the period that we're in at the moment is a period --
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and it'll probably be a long period -- of transition between a
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telecommunications and an information environment that was charac-
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terized really quite differently, when technologies were very
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different and when there were lines of business, when particular
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technologies offered particular lines of business and there was
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really no merging between the two...There are a whole set of
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problems which derive from what are the kinds of services that a
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company can offer. Can it offer local competitive services --
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i.e., in the local loop where telecommunications go to the home?
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Can a company offer long distance services? Can a company engage
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in manufacturing? Can a company engage in what are called
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'information services,' which is the offer to the home or to a
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business of particular information."
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And that's all she wrote, sports fans. The IS is designed to allow
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everyone access to everything. So, let's say you run Scott's Research
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Company. That means that you have the exact same access to materials
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and, and this is the kicker, to a *market* that an organization like
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Dialog Information Systems may have access to. It is up to you as
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to whether or not you will be competitive. The means to be competitive
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will be available.
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And this is the Information Superhighway.
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Now, you may have also come across information regarding the amount
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of regulation (and deregulation) that is in the pipeline. For example, I
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just read in _Newsweek_ about the fact that the FCC has enacted a 7
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percent rate reduction for cable stations, and a bunch of whiners have
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talked about how that wrecked the TCI/Bell Atlantic merger deal. Let's
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see what the Feds have to say:
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"So one area in which legislation is being considered and upon
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which the Vice President will comment will be the loosening of
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restrictions which affect what services a company can offer.
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"Another whole area derives from the fact that because of the
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history of telecommunications and the different history of
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companies, companies with different kinds of history now offer
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different kinds of services and are restricted in that way. So
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a cable company offers one kind of services, broadcast television
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offers another kind, now convergent mostly with cable television,
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telephone companies offer another kind. And, again, another set
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of legislation is increasingly -- moves in the direction of saying
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that the past history matters less and less, and as long as there
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is competition, companies can -- irrespective of their past
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history -- can offer competing services. Both are responding to
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the basic fact that the technology has changed fundamentally and
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that all of these things are now convergent.
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"Regulation -- let me make one point about laws and regulations.
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The technology that changes that are occurring are going to change
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and the changes are going to occur irrespective of what anybody does.
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Technology has historically shown a tendency to move much more
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rapidly than regulation. And what this does is catch regulation up
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with where technology is and give it --and provide a capacity so it
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can change much more flexibly...But what we can do is try to build
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certain values into the system. And one of those values has got to
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be a competitive environment and a competitive marketplace. And,
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therefore, what the regulatory system has to do as it ushers us
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through a transition like this, is provide for checks along the way
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so that one can ask the question, is there, in fact, competition."
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The idea that this gives me is that the government is going to try
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and set up (or remove) laws that would control or limit the proposed IS,
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with the ultimate idea being that competition and access will not be
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sacrificed. Hell, I can live with this concept.
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How does this effect the average person? Hard to say. White House
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officials say that there are a couple of benefits. The first is a lower
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price for telecommunications and information services (as a result of
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the increased competition). The second is that there will be an
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increased number of jobs in the information industry. The third will
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change basic ways of work. The example that they used was video
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conferencing. The first couple of changes, price changes and investment
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changes will probably take place over the next very few years. The
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longer changes of workstyle will probably take until the end of the
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century.
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"We're already seeing a situation in which education is reversed in
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the home. Parents are learning computers from their children.
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Parents are learning how to program their VCRs and their cell phones
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from their children. The technology revolution is occurring more
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quickly than the education system can handle it or the regulatory
|
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system. And as a result, all of these changes that we read about
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everyday in the paper are occurring -- they're running into the wall
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of regulations and judicial restrictions, and they're all finding
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little fish ladders around the dam so to speak. We're got to start
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dealing with how to open up the dam in a controlled way to let these
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technologies flow in a way that still protects universal service,
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competition, open access and privacy."
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One of the details that came out is the concept of the universal
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access. What do this entail? Is there going to be a universal access
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for poor people so they can get phones, and are they considering
|
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television and cable television now, something that that should also be
|
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available no matter how much money the individual has? Well, White
|
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House officials again:
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"The extent of how we define universal service is actively under
|
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discussion. And the question of subsidies or rate subsidies is also
|
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a very difficult one. As you know, the definition of universal
|
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service has gone to having a party line phone to having an
|
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|
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individual line. Is call-waiting part of universal service? Is a
|
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modem hook-up part of universal service? Those are some of the
|
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|
|
questions that we have to answer. We don't expect to have all of
|
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the answers, because the market will surprise us down the road in
|
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terms of what's available.
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"One of the issues we want to propose to deal with that question is
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how to make the regulatory system more responsive more quickly to
|
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technology changes. We can't wait 60 years at a pop to catch up
|
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|
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with technology. So that's one of the problems we're going to reach
|
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|
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is, how can we make the regulatory system more responsive to the
|
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|
|
technological opportunities."
|
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|
Again, regulation to allow for better exchange of information. I
|
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|
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personally have qualms about the system, and I am hoping that the
|
|||
|
|
problems are addressed sometime in the future. For instance, if a
|
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|
|
system like the Internet is privatized (don't laugh, corporations are
|
|||
|
|
slobbering at the opportunity to take control of the Internet as it
|
|||
|
|
currently exists), will there still be the same amount of interchange
|
|||
|
|
between research scientists? According to the above, the access to the
|
|||
|
|
system has to be there, but will the cost of access be so high that no
|
|||
|
|
one can use it?
|
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|
|||
|
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"The end result of all of that I stated in one way is the capability
|
|||
|
|
to offer any set of services to any consumer through any network at
|
|||
|
|
any time...And that's the end result, is a much freer, much more
|
|||
|
|
competitive telecommunications and information marketplace that,
|
|||
|
|
because it is that way, changes in quite fundamental ways the nature
|
|||
|
|
of the economy."
|
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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################################################################
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|
|
AN INTERNET
|
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|
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INTRO David Moss
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################################################################
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|
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|
|
By now most people have heard of the "data highway". The current
|
|||
|
|
administration even made it a campaign issue. Well, a form of the data
|
|||
|
|
highway has been around for quite a while now. It is more commonly
|
|||
|
|
referred to as the Internet.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
More than one million computers have some type of access to this
|
|||
|
|
behemoth, and more will become active participants since more and more
|
|||
|
|
software companies are writing programs that will allow all bulletin
|
|||
|
|
board services to gain access.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you have been a long time participant of bulletin boards, you are
|
|||
|
|
probably accustomed to sending and receiving mail to and from other
|
|||
|
|
users on your local BBS. You may have even sent mail through some type
|
|||
|
|
of echoed network to another city. If you are familiar with this
|
|||
|
|
process, then you are undoubtedly familiar with off-line mail readers.
|
|||
|
|
Off-line mail readers, or more commonly known as OLRs, make the task of
|
|||
|
|
sending mail a lot easier. The use of an OLR also saves us valuable
|
|||
|
|
on-line time since most BBS's charge a fee for the amount of time you
|
|||
|
|
use. If you are sincere about learning how to use the Internet as a
|
|||
|
|
mail source, I strongly recommend you learn how to use an OLR before you
|
|||
|
|
begin sending Internet mail. There are several readers to choose from
|
|||
|
|
that will suit your needs. If you are not sure which reader to try, ask
|
|||
|
|
your sysop. He or she is very knowledgeable and will be happy to direct
|
|||
|
|
you to an appropriate reader.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For those of you who are sincere about learning how to send mail via
|
|||
|
|
the Internet, I will attempt to list the most common mistakes made by
|
|||
|
|
users. These are the mistakes that are routinely made by the novice, as
|
|||
|
|
well as the experienced user. I will also attempt to identify the
|
|||
|
|
differences between message structure of local mail as opposed to
|
|||
|
|
Internet mail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Before you can send Internet mail, you must locate a BBS that has
|
|||
|
|
Internet access. There are several in the Birmingham area to choose
|
|||
|
|
from. You will need to contact the sysop to inquire about the fees of
|
|||
|
|
such services. Once you find a site that you feel comfortable with, you
|
|||
|
|
will need to find out what your address is. Yes, unlike local e-mail
|
|||
|
|
that you send from time to time, Internet mail requires you to have an
|
|||
|
|
actual address. It is this address that will insure that you will
|
|||
|
|
receive your mail. The sysop will be happy to assign an address to you.
|
|||
|
|
Do not assume what your address is; you may be right, or you may be
|
|||
|
|
wrong. It is always better to ask.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One big difference between Internet mail and regular local mail is
|
|||
|
|
Internet mail is *always* tagged private. This does not mean that the
|
|||
|
|
sysop cannot read it. All sysops have access to private mail, but most
|
|||
|
|
don't have the time nor the inclination to read all of the private mail.
|
|||
|
|
What does private mail mean? When sending local mail on a BBS, it is
|
|||
|
|
usually tagged public. If this is the case, then a user named John Doe
|
|||
|
|
will usually see a message addressed to "Johm Doe" and assume that it is
|
|||
|
|
a typographical error, look to see who it is from, and reply. Internet
|
|||
|
|
mail is less forgiving. If you misspell a person's name, the mail will
|
|||
|
|
not get to the user you intended.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mistake: Misspelled names. Check your spelling. This is where the
|
|||
|
|
use of an OLR is crucial, to my needs anyway. An OLR usually has an
|
|||
|
|
address book that will allow you to enter an infinite number of
|
|||
|
|
addresses that you will most commonly use. You simply enter the address
|
|||
|
|
and the name of the person, check the spelling, and you never have to
|
|||
|
|
look back.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This brings us to the second thing you will need to do. Who will
|
|||
|
|
you send mail to? You will have to decide this on your own. If you
|
|||
|
|
have a friend who is stationed in Germany, and this friend has Internet
|
|||
|
|
access, then you may want to send mail to him. What you will need to do
|
|||
|
|
is find out the correct address for the person to which you wish to
|
|||
|
|
correspond with. Again, as you did with yourself, don't just assume
|
|||
|
|
someone's address. Ask.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mistake: Incorrect address. Users usually assume that because John
|
|||
|
|
Doe is registered on America Online (tm), that his address is:
|
|||
|
|
John.Doe@AOL.COM. This far from being accurate. Most commercial
|
|||
|
|
services have a numbering system that assigns addresses. How do you
|
|||
|
|
find out a person's address? Ask. Give the person a call. You will
|
|||
|
|
only have to do this once. It is better to find out prior to sending
|
|||
|
|
mail than to have several messages "bounced back" due to an improper
|
|||
|
|
address. "Bounced" messages cost money. These messages do nothing but
|
|||
|
|
contribute to the overall operating expense of the system you happen to
|
|||
|
|
be on. Thus, the fees may be higher due to these type messages.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Addresses are unique to each system the user happens to be
|
|||
|
|
registered with. I have seen addresses that have as many as fifty
|
|||
|
|
characters. In most cases, your local BBS has a twenty-five character
|
|||
|
|
limit in the "To:" field. The same is true with most OLRs. Well, what
|
|||
|
|
can we do to get around this? On boards like The Matrix, Internet mail
|
|||
|
|
offers the ability to use the first line of the message as an address.
|
|||
|
|
This is where so many mistakes are made.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mistake: Errors in the first line of a message.
|
|||
|
|
If you have an address that exceeds the twenty-five character length
|
|||
|
|
of the "To:" field you will have to enter the address in the first line
|
|||
|
|
of your message. Before you can do this, however, most readers require
|
|||
|
|
that you enter something in the "To:" field of the letter. What can you
|
|||
|
|
enter here? UUCP. This is acceptable practice and will not affect the
|
|||
|
|
letter's destination. Once you do this, drop to the first line of the
|
|||
|
|
message and enter the word "to: " (without the quotes)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTE: There must be a space after the word "to: ". Then, simply
|
|||
|
|
enter the person's correct address. You must also enter a blank line
|
|||
|
|
after the first line. The only exception to this is if you decide to
|
|||
|
|
enter the word "subject." A blank line must then follow this line.
|
|||
|
|
Here is an example of each method:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
____________________________________________________________________
|
|||
|
|
to: john.doe@united.ags.ua.peg.org
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dear John,
|
|||
|
|
I have received your quotes for the...............
|
|||
|
|
____________________________________________________________________
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The above is one way to correctly address the letter.
|
|||
|
|
Spaces are not allowed and will only be returned as incorrect address.
|
|||
|
|
Commas are one example of an incorrect separator, and the message will
|
|||
|
|
simply be sent back.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here's another way:
|
|||
|
|
____________________________________________________________________
|
|||
|
|
to: john.doe@united.ags.ua.peg.org
|
|||
|
|
subject: quotes
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dear John,
|
|||
|
|
I have received your quotes for the...............
|
|||
|
|
____________________________________________________________________
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here is an incorrect way to address the letter.
|
|||
|
|
____________________________________________________________________
|
|||
|
|
to:john.doe@united.ags.ua.org
|
|||
|
|
Dear John,
|
|||
|
|
I have received your quotes for the..............
|
|||
|
|
____________________________________________________________________
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There are two things wrong with the above letter.
|
|||
|
|
1. There has been no space left between "to:" and the person's address.
|
|||
|
|
2. There has been no blank line left between the address and the letter
|
|||
|
|
itself.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There are many ways to make mistakes when typing a letter on the
|
|||
|
|
Internet. The fact that the Internet is less forgiving than most other
|
|||
|
|
mail sources should be reason enough to spend a little more time to
|
|||
|
|
learn the routines. It only takes an extra moment or two to proofread
|
|||
|
|
your letter.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Internet is the mail system of the future that is already here.
|
|||
|
|
It is the most effective, cost efficient method of sending mail that
|
|||
|
|
you will probably ever encounter. One only has to send mail to a person
|
|||
|
|
in Russia, and have a reply the next day, to realize the impact this
|
|||
|
|
mail system can have on society.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Newsgroups-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Newsgroups are groups that have been created by subject matter
|
|||
|
|
similar to that of your local BBS. Just as on your local BBS, some
|
|||
|
|
groups are public and some are moderated. A public conference, or
|
|||
|
|
group, is available to the general public for public response.
|
|||
|
|
Moderated groups, on the other hand, are not available for public
|
|||
|
|
posting of messages. A user must send private e-mail to the moderator
|
|||
|
|
of such a group, and submit the article he wishes to have posted in such
|
|||
|
|
a group. If the moderator finds your submission acceptable, then it is
|
|||
|
|
likely to be published. Therefore, do not post directly into a
|
|||
|
|
moderated group.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTE: If the above paragraph is ignored, and you post directly into a
|
|||
|
|
moderated group, then you will no doubt receive several pieces of
|
|||
|
|
private e-mail reprimanding you. This is no laughing matter; the
|
|||
|
|
Internet considers this to be a violation of tradition, which it is!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
How do you know which groups are moderated? One way is to monitor a
|
|||
|
|
group named news.announce.newusers. This is the group that publishes
|
|||
|
|
the up-to-date list on a monthly basis. Actually, moderated groups are
|
|||
|
|
supposed to be tagged as "read only", which will prevent someone from
|
|||
|
|
posting directly into said group. However, with over five thousand
|
|||
|
|
groups on the Internet, it may be impossible for your local sysop to
|
|||
|
|
keep up with all of them. This is a very good reason to keep a list
|
|||
|
|
handy for reference. I keep a list available at all times. I also keep
|
|||
|
|
a list of moderators, and their addresses handy, just in case I need to
|
|||
|
|
post into a moderated group.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Summary:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1. Don't assume what your address is. Ask!
|
|||
|
|
2. Don't assume what someone else's is. Ask!
|
|||
|
|
3. Don't use high bit ascii characters. (characters above 127 are
|
|||
|
|
considered high bit and may be interpreted as something entirely
|
|||
|
|
different on some UNIX systems)
|
|||
|
|
4. Do ask your sysop or sysadmin for help.
|
|||
|
|
5. Do get in public message areas and seek conversation on messaging.
|
|||
|
|
6. Do proofread your address.
|
|||
|
|
7. Do enter your letter in the appropriate conference.
|
|||
|
|
8. Don't post directly into a Moderated Group.
|
|||
|
|
9. And last, but not least, Do have a good time!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If I can be of any help to anyone regarding the Internet e-mail
|
|||
|
|
system, and how it works, I can be e-mailed at;
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
david.moss@the-matrix.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
################################################################
|
|||
|
|
MARK'S
|
|||
|
|
TOY BOX Mark Maisel
|
|||
|
|
################################################################
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Product: Adobe Photo Shop 2.5 for MS-Windows
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Publisher: Adobe Systems Inc.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Requires: Intel 386, 486, or Pentium processor, MS-DOS 5.0 or higher,
|
|||
|
|
MS-Windows 3.1 or higher, 4 megs memory, color VGA display
|
|||
|
|
adapter, color monitor, mouse or equivalent
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Recommended: Intel 486DX or Pentium processor, 8 or more megs memory,
|
|||
|
|
24 bit color display adapter
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Expect to pay: $549-up
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Photo Shop is a professional level graphics tool. Its primary
|
|||
|
|
application is to touch up photos, a digital dark room, if you will. It
|
|||
|
|
has tools that duplicate the functionality of a photographic dark room.
|
|||
|
|
It also offers many tools that cannot be duplicated in a dark room.
|
|||
|
|
Photo Shop started life as a Macintosh application some time ago and
|
|||
|
|
only found its way to the MS-DOS/MS-Windows world in the past year.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Photo Shop's tools and interface make good use of MS-Windows. The
|
|||
|
|
feel of several features is reminiscent of the Mac version. The two
|
|||
|
|
versions are functionally identical. Retouching, color manipulation,
|
|||
|
|
duotones, tritones, quadtones, and numerous special effects can be
|
|||
|
|
applied with only a short time at the controls. This is not to say this
|
|||
|
|
software is without a learning curve. The biggest difficulty I
|
|||
|
|
experienced is my ignorance of photography and dark room techniques &
|
|||
|
|
terms. I'm overcoming that and having a grand time to boot.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Once you've created your masterpiece, the output options are pretty
|
|||
|
|
extensive. PANTONE color control and automatic trapping are available
|
|||
|
|
as is CMYK editing for four color proofing and separations. The file
|
|||
|
|
formats supported are as follows: Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), Photo
|
|||
|
|
Shop for Mac 2.5, Kodak Photo CD, TIFF, JPEG, Scitex CT, DCS, PCX, BMP,
|
|||
|
|
TWAIN compatible, PIXAR, PixelPaint, MacPaint, Raw, Targa (TGA), GIF,
|
|||
|
|
and Amiga IFF/LBM. I've never seen anything that supported so many
|
|||
|
|
formats other than specialized file conversion utilities.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My favorite tools in Photo Shop are the "Variations" feature, and
|
|||
|
|
the burn and dodge tools. "Variations" brings up a dialogue box
|
|||
|
|
containing a thumbnail of the original image plus thumbnails with color
|
|||
|
|
and brightness alterations. You simply pick one to replace the original
|
|||
|
|
and it becomes the current pick. You can make that pick your new image.
|
|||
|
|
This method of experimenting before applying color and brightness
|
|||
|
|
changes is terrific. The controls in this feature are many and easily
|
|||
|
|
manipulated. The burn and dodge tools allow selective brightening and
|
|||
|
|
darkening of an image. This is invaluable for touching up images with
|
|||
|
|
poor color or light balance, usually the result of a poor photo or scan.
|
|||
|
|
|
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Photo Shop is my current favorite graphics application. It knocked
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off long standing favorite, Aldus Photo Styler 1.1. I'm told that Photo
|
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Styler 2.0 compares favorably to Photo Shop but I've not gotten a look
|
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at it yet. When I do, I'll let you know how they compare. Till then,
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Photo Shop rules the roost and gets the nod from me.
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Photo Shop is not without its drawbacks. It takes a long time to
|
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load, even on a very fast system. It asks, nay, demands all of your
|
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resources or threatens that it may suffer in performance. I've run
|
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other programs in Windows with Photo Shop without problems but it was
|
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idle when I ran other applications. I suppose the system would slow to
|
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a crawl or worse were I to open something else while it was chewing on
|
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an image. My test drive was made on a 486DX2-66 with 16 megabytes of
|
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RAM, and a fast SCSI-2 hard disk. Performance is acceptable most of the
|
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time. There are a few filters and effects that when applied, provide me
|
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with a break of a few minutes. Expect this time to increase rapidly on
|
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a slower machine and with less RAM.
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There are so many things to talk about that I'm at a loss for next
|
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month's column. Rest assured that there will be something. I do hope
|
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you've enjoyed this information on Photo Shop. If you have any
|
|||
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questions, please don't hesitate to ask on Crunchy Frog or The MATRIX.
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<The following article was reprinted courtesy of WIRED magazine.
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Everyone please read it!>
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JACKBOOTS ON
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THE INFOBAHN John Perry Barlow
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=-=-=-=-=-Copyright 1993,4 Wired USA Ltd. All Rights Reserved=-=-=-=-=
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WIRED 2.04
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Electrosphere
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*************
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Jackboots on the Infobahn
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Clipper is a last ditch attempt by the United States, the last great
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power from the old Industrial Era, to establish imperial control over
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cyberspace.
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By John Perry Barlow
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[Note: The following article will appear in the April 1994 issue of
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WIRED. We, the editors of WIRED, are net-casting it now in its
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pre-published form as a public service. Because of the vital and urgent
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nature of its message, we believe readers on the Net should hear and
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take action now. You are free to pass this article on electronically; in
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fact we urge you to replicate it throughout the net with our blessings.
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If you do, please keep the copyright statements and this note intact.
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For a complete listing of Clipper-related resources available through
|
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WIRED Online, send email to <infobot@wired.com> with the following
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message: "send clipper.index". - The Editors of WIRED]
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On January 11, I managed to schmooze myself aboard Air Force 2. It was
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flying out of LA, where its principal passenger had just outlined his
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vision of the information superhighway to a suited mob of television,
|
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show-biz, and cable types who fervently hoped to own it one day - if
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they could ever figure out what the hell it was.
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>From the standpoint of the Electronic Frontier Foundation the speech
|
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had been wildly encouraging. The administration's program, as announced
|
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by Vice President Al Gore, incorporated many of the concepts of open
|
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competition, universal access, and deregulated common carriage that
|
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we'd been pushing for the previous year.
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But he had said nothing about the future of privacy, except to cite
|
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among the bounties of the NII its ability to "help law enforcement
|
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agencies thwart criminals and terrorists who might use advanced
|
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telecommunications to commit crimes."
|
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On the plane I asked Gore what this implied about administration policy
|
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on cryptography. He became as noncommittal as a cigar-store Indian.
|
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"We'll be making some announcements.... I can't tell you anything more."
|
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He hurried to the front of the plane, leaving me to troubled
|
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speculation.
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Despite its fundamental role in assuring privacy, transaction security,
|
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and reliable identity within the NII, the Clinton administration has not
|
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demonstrated an enlightenment about cryptography up to par with the rest
|
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of its digital vision.
|
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|
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The Clipper Chip - which threatens to be either the goofiest waste of
|
|||
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federal dollars since President Gerald Ford's great Swine Flu program
|
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or, if actually deployed, a surveillance technology of profound
|
|||
|
|
malignancy - seemed at first an ugly legacy of the Reagan-Bush modus
|
|||
|
|
operandi. "This is going to be our Bay of Pigs," one Clinton White House
|
|||
|
|
official told me at the time Clipper was introduced, referring to the
|
|||
|
|
disastrous plan to invade Cuba that Kennedy inherited from Eisenhower.
|
|||
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|
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|
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(Clipper, in case you're just tuning in, is an encryption chip that the
|
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|
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National Security Agency and FBI hope will someday be in every phone and
|
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computer in America. It scrambles your communications, making them
|
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unintelligible to all but their intended recipients. All, that is, but
|
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the government, which would hold the "key" to your chip. The key would
|
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separated into two pieces, held in escrow, and joined with the
|
|||
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appropriate "legal authority.")
|
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|
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|
|
Of course, trusting the government with your privacy is like having a
|
|||
|
|
Peeping Tom install your window blinds. And, since the folks I've met in
|
|||
|
|
this White House seem like extremely smart, conscious freedom-lovers -
|
|||
|
|
hell, a lot of them are Deadheads - I was sure that after they were
|
|||
|
|
fully moved in, they'd face down the National Security Agency and the
|
|||
|
|
FBI, let Clipper die a natural death, and lower the export embargo on
|
|||
|
|
reliable encryption products.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Furthermore, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and the
|
|||
|
|
National Security Council have been studying both Clipper and export
|
|||
|
|
embargoes since April. Given that the volumes of expert testimony they
|
|||
|
|
had collected overwhelmingly opposed both, I expected the final report
|
|||
|
|
would give the administration all the support it needed to do the right
|
|||
|
|
thing.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
I was wrong. Instead, there would be no report. Apparently, they
|
|||
|
|
couldn't draft one that supported, on the evidence, what they had
|
|||
|
|
decided to do instead.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
THE OTHER SHOE DROPS
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On Friday, February 4, the other jackboot dropped. A series of
|
|||
|
|
announcements from the administration made it clear that cryptography
|
|||
|
|
would become their very own "Bosnia of telecommunications" (as one
|
|||
|
|
staffer put it). It wasn't just that the old Serbs in the National
|
|||
|
|
Security Agency and the FBI were still making the calls. The alarming
|
|||
|
|
new reality was that the invertebrates in the White House were only too
|
|||
|
|
happy to abide by them. Anything to avoid appearing soft on drugs or
|
|||
|
|
terrorism.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So, rather than ditching Clipper, they declared it a Federal Data
|
|||
|
|
Processing Standard, backing that up with an immediate government order
|
|||
|
|
for 50,000 Clipper devices. They appointed the National Institutes of
|
|||
|
|
Standards and Technology and the Department of Treasury as the
|
|||
|
|
"trusted" third parties that would hold the Clipper key pairs.
|
|||
|
|
(Treasury, by the way, is also home to such trustworthy agencies as the
|
|||
|
|
Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
They reaffirmed the export embargo on robust encryption products,
|
|||
|
|
admitting for the first time that its purpose was to stifle competition
|
|||
|
|
to Clipper. And they outlined a very porous set of requirements under
|
|||
|
|
which the cops might get the keys to your chip. (They would not go into
|
|||
|
|
the procedure by which the National Security Agency could get them,
|
|||
|
|
though they assured us it was sufficient.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
They even signaled the impending return of the dread Digital Telephony,
|
|||
|
|
an FBI legislative initiative requiring fundamental reengineering of the
|
|||
|
|
information infrastructure; providing wiretapping ability to the FBI
|
|||
|
|
would then become the paramount design priority.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Actually, by the time the announcements thudded down, I wasn't surprised
|
|||
|
|
by them. I had spent several days the previous week in and around the
|
|||
|
|
White House.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I felt like I was in another remake of The Invasion of the Body
|
|||
|
|
Snatchers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My friends in the administration had been transformed. They'd been
|
|||
|
|
subsumed by the vast mindfield on the other side of the security
|
|||
|
|
clearance membrane, where dwell the monstrous bureaucratic organisms
|
|||
|
|
that feed on fear. They'd been infected by the institutionally paranoid
|
|||
|
|
National Security Agency's Weltanschauung.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
They used all the telltale phrases. Mike Nelson, the White House point
|
|||
|
|
man on the NII, told me, "If only I could tell you what I know, you'd
|
|||
|
|
feel the same way I do." I told him I'd been inoculated against that
|
|||
|
|
argument during Vietnam. (And it does seem to me that if you're going
|
|||
|
|
to initiate a process that might end freedom in America, you probably
|
|||
|
|
need an argument that isn't classified.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Besides, how does he know what he knows? Where does he get his
|
|||
|
|
information? Why, the National Security Agency, of course. Which, given
|
|||
|
|
its strong interest in the outcome, seems hardly an unimpeachable
|
|||
|
|
source.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
However they reached it, Clinton and Gore have an astonishingly simple
|
|||
|
|
bottom line, to which even the future of American liberty and prosperity
|
|||
|
|
is secondary: They believe that it is their responsibility to eliminate,
|
|||
|
|
by whatever means, the possibility that some terrorist might get a nuke
|
|||
|
|
and use it on, say, the World Trade Center. They have been convinced
|
|||
|
|
that such plots are more likely to ripen to hideous fruition behind a
|
|||
|
|
shield of encryption.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The staffers I talked to were unmoved by the argument that anyone smart
|
|||
|
|
enough to steal a nuclear device is probably smart enough to use PGP or
|
|||
|
|
some other uncompromised crypto standard. And never mind that the last
|
|||
|
|
people who popped a hooter in the World Trade Center were able to get
|
|||
|
|
it there without using any cryptography and while under FBI
|
|||
|
|
surveillance.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We are dealing with religion here. Though only ten American lives have
|
|||
|
|
been lost to terrorism in the last two years, the primacy of this threat
|
|||
|
|
has become as much an article of faith with these guys as the Catholic
|
|||
|
|
conviction that human life begins at conception or the Mormon belief
|
|||
|
|
that the Lost Tribe of Israel crossed the Atlantic in submarines.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the spirit of openness and compromise, they invited the Electronic
|
|||
|
|
Frontier Foundation to submit other solutions to the "problem" of the
|
|||
|
|
nuclear-enabled terrorist than key escrow devices, but they would not
|
|||
|
|
admit into discussion the argument that such a threat might, in fact,
|
|||
|
|
be some kind of phantasm created by the spooks to ensure their lavish
|
|||
|
|
budgets into the post-Cold War era.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As to the possibility that good old-fashioned investigative techniques
|
|||
|
|
might be more valuable in preventing their show-case catastrophe (as it
|
|||
|
|
was after the fact in finding the alleged perpetrators of the last
|
|||
|
|
attack on the World Trade Center), they just hunkered down and said
|
|||
|
|
that when wiretaps were necessary, they were damned well necessary.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When I asked about the business that American companies lose because of
|
|||
|
|
their inability to export good encryption products, one staffer
|
|||
|
|
essentially dismissed the market, saying that total world trade in
|
|||
|
|
crypto goods was still less than a billion dollars. (Well, right.
|
|||
|
|
Thanks more to the diligent efforts of the National Security Agency than
|
|||
|
|
to dim sales potential.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I suggested that a more immediate and costly real-world effect of their
|
|||
|
|
policies would be to reduce national security by isolating American
|
|||
|
|
commerce, owing to a lack of international confidence in the security of
|
|||
|
|
our data lines. I said that Bruce Sterling's fictional data-enclaves in
|
|||
|
|
places like the Turks and Caicos Islands were starting to look
|
|||
|
|
real-world inevitable.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
They had a couple of answers to this, one unsatisfying and the other
|
|||
|
|
scary. The unsatisfying answer was that the international banking
|
|||
|
|
community could just go on using DES, which still seemed robust enough
|
|||
|
|
to them. (DES is the old federal Data Encryption Standard, thought by
|
|||
|
|
most cryptologists to be nearing the end of its credibility.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
More frightening was their willingness to counter the data-enclave
|
|||
|
|
future with one in which no data channels anywhere would be secure from
|
|||
|
|
examination by one government or another. Pointing to unnamed other
|
|||
|
|
countries that were developing their own mandatory standards and
|
|||
|
|
restrictions regarding cryptography, they said words to the effect of,
|
|||
|
|
"Hey, it's not like you can't outlaw the stuff. Look at France."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Of course, they have also said repeatedly - and for now I believe them -
|
|||
|
|
that they have absolutely no plans to outlaw non-Clipper crypto in the
|
|||
|
|
US. But that doesn't mean that such plans wouldn't develop in the
|
|||
|
|
presence of some pending "emergency." Then there is that White House
|
|||
|
|
briefing document, issued at the time Clipper was first announced, which
|
|||
|
|
asserts that no US citizen "as a matter of right, is entitled to an
|
|||
|
|
unbreakable commercial encryption product."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now why, if it's an ability they have no intention of contesting, do
|
|||
|
|
they feel compelled to declare that it's not a right? Could it be that
|
|||
|
|
they are preparing us for the laws they'll pass after some bearded
|
|||
|
|
fanatic has gotten himself a surplus nuke and used something besides
|
|||
|
|
Clipper to conceal his plans for it?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If they are thinking about such an eventuality, we should be doing so as
|
|||
|
|
well. How will we respond? I believe there is a strong, though currently
|
|||
|
|
untested, argument that outlawing unregulated crypto would violate the
|
|||
|
|
First Amendment, which surely protects the manner of our speech as
|
|||
|
|
clearly as it protects the content.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But of course the First Amendment is, like the rest of the Constitution,
|
|||
|
|
only as good as the government's willingness to uphold it. And they are,
|
|||
|
|
as I say, in the mood to protect our safety over our liberty.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is not a mind-frame against which any argument is going to be very
|
|||
|
|
effective. And it appeared that they had already heard and rejected
|
|||
|
|
every argument I could possibly offer.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In fact, when I drew what I thought was an original comparison between
|
|||
|
|
their stand against naturally proliferating crypto and the folly of King
|
|||
|
|
Canute (who placed his throne on the beach and commanded the tide to
|
|||
|
|
leave him dry), my government opposition looked pained and said he had
|
|||
|
|
heard that one almost as often as jokes about roadkill on the
|
|||
|
|
information superhighway.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I hate to go to war with them. War is always nastier among friends.
|
|||
|
|
Furthermore, unless they've decided to let the National Security Agency
|
|||
|
|
design the rest of the National Information Infrastructure as well, we
|
|||
|
|
need to go on working closely with them on the whole range of issues
|
|||
|
|
like access, competition, workplace privacy, common carriage,
|
|||
|
|
intellectual property, and such. Besides, the proliferation of strong
|
|||
|
|
crypto will probably happen eventually no matter what they do.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But then again, it might not. In which case we could shortly find
|
|||
|
|
ourselves under a government that would have the automated ability to
|
|||
|
|
log the time, origin and recipient of every call we made, could track
|
|||
|
|
our physical whereabouts continuously, could keep better account of our
|
|||
|
|
financial transactions than we do, and all without a warrant. Talk about
|
|||
|
|
crime prevention!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Worse, under some vaguely defined and surely mutable "legal authority,"
|
|||
|
|
they also would be able to listen to our calls and read our e-mail
|
|||
|
|
without having to do any backyard rewiring. They wouldn't need any
|
|||
|
|
permission at all to monitor overseas calls.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If there's going to be a fight, I'd rather it be with this government
|
|||
|
|
than the one we'd likely face on that hard day.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Hey, I've never been a paranoid before. It's always seemed to me that
|
|||
|
|
most governments are too incompetent to keep a good plot strung together
|
|||
|
|
all the way from coffee break to quitting time. But I am now very
|
|||
|
|
nervous about the government of the United States of America.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Because Bill 'n' Al, whatever their other new-paradigm virtues, have
|
|||
|
|
allowed the very old-paradigm trogs of the Guardian Class to define as
|
|||
|
|
their highest duty the defense of America against an enemy that exists
|
|||
|
|
primarily in the imagination - and is therefore capable of anything.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To assure absolute safety against such an enemy, there is no limit to
|
|||
|
|
the liberties we will eventually be asked to sacrifice. And, with a
|
|||
|
|
Clipper Chip in every phone, there will certainly be no technical limit
|
|||
|
|
on their ability to enforce those sacrifices.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WHAT YOU CAN DO
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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GET CONGRESS TO LIFT THE CRYPTO EMBARGO
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The administration is trying to impose Clipper on us by manipulating
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market forces. By purchasing massive numbers of Clipper devices, they
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intend to induce an economy of scale which will make them cheap while
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the export embargo renders all competition either expensive or
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nonexistent.
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We have to use the market to fight back. While it's unlikely that
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they'll back down on Clipper deployment, the Electronic Frontier
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Foundation believes that with sufficient public involvement, we can get
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Congress to eliminate the export embargo.
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Rep. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, has a bill (H.R. 3627) before the
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Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment Subcommittee of the House
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Committee on Foreign Affairs that would do exactly that. She will need a
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lot of help from the public. They may not care much about your privacy
|
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in DC, but they still care about your vote.
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Please signal your support of H.R. 3627, either by writing her directly
|
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or e-mailing her at cantwell@eff.org. Messages sent to that address will
|
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be printed out and delivered to her office. In the subject header of
|
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your message, please include the words "support HR 3627." In the body
|
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of your message, express your reasons for supporting the bill. You may
|
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also express your sentiments to Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Indiana, the House
|
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Committee on Foreign Affairs chair, by e-mailing hamilton@eff.org.
|
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Furthermore, since there is nothing quite as powerful as a letter from a
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constituent, you should check the following list of subcommittee and
|
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committee members to see if your congressional representative is among
|
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them. If so, please copy them your letter to Rep. Cantwell.
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> Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment Subcommittee:
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Democrats: Sam Gejdenson (Chair), D-Connecticut; James Oberstar, D-
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Minnesota; Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia; Maria Cantwell, D-Washington;
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Eric Fingerhut, D-Ohio; Albert R. Wynn, D-Maryland; Harry Johnston,
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D-Florida; Eliot Engel, D-New York; Charles Schumer, D-New York.
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Republicans: Toby Roth (ranking), R-Wisconsin; Donald Manzullo,
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R-Illinois; Doug Bereuter, R-Nebraska; Jan Meyers, R-Kansas; Cass
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Ballenger, R-North Carolina; Dana Rohrabacher, R-California.
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> House Committee on Foreign Affairs:
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Democrats: Lee Hamilton (Chair), D-Indiana; Tom Lantos, D-California;
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Robert Torricelli, D-New Jersey; Howard Berman, D-California; Gary
|
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Ackerman, D-New York; Eni Faleomavaega, D-Somoa; Matthew Martinez, D-
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California; Robert Borski, D-Pennsylvania; Donal Payne, D-New Jersey;
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Robert Andrews, D-New Jersey; Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey; Sherrod
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Brown, D-Ohio; Alcee Hastings, D-Florida; Peter Deutsch, D-Florida; Don
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Edwards, D-California; Frank McCloskey, D-Indiana; Thomas Sawyer,
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D-Ohio; Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois.
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Republicans: Benjamin Gilman (ranking), R-New York; William Goodling, R-
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Pennsylvania; Jim Leach, R-Iowa; Olympia Snowe, R-Maine; Henry Hyde, R-
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Illinois; Christopher Smith, R-New Jersey; Dan Burton, R-Indiana; Elton
|
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Gallegly, R-California; Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida; David Levy,
|
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R-New York; Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Florida; Ed Royce, R-California.
|
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BOYCOTT CLIPPER DEVICES AND THE COMPANIES WHICH MAKE THEM.
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|
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Don't buy anything with a Clipper Chip in it. Don't buy any product from
|
|||
|
|
a company that manufactures devices with Big Brother inside. It is
|
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|
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likely that the government will ask you to use Clipper for
|
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communications with the IRS or when doing business with federal
|
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|
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agencies. They cannot, as yet, require you to do so. Just say no.
|
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LEARN ABOUT ENCRYPTION AND EXPLAIN THE ISSUES TO YOUR UNWIRED FRIENDS
|
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|
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|
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The administration is banking on the likelihood that this stuff is too
|
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|
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technically obscure to agitate anyone but nerds like us. Prove them
|
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|
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wrong by patiently explaining what's going on to all the people you know
|
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who have never touched a computer and glaze over at the mention of
|
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|
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words like "cryptography."
|
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|
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|
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Maybe you glaze over yourself. Don't. It's not that hard. For some
|
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|
|
hands-on experience, download a copy of PGP - Pretty Good Privacy - a
|
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|
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shareware encryption engine which uses the robust RSA encryption
|
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|
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algorithm. And learn to use it.
|
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|
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|
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GET YOUR COMPANY TO THINK ABOUT EMBEDDING REAL CRYPTOGRAPHY IN ITS
|
|||
|
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PRODUCTS
|
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|
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|
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If you work for a company that makes software, computer hardware, or any
|
|||
|
|
kind of communications device, work from within to get them to
|
|||
|
|
incorporate RSA or some other strong encryption scheme into their
|
|||
|
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products. If they say that they are afraid to violate the export
|
|||
|
|
embargo, ask them to consider manufacturing such products overseas and
|
|||
|
|
importing them back into the United States. There appears to be no law
|
|||
|
|
against that. Yet.
|
|||
|
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|
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|
|
You might also lobby your company to join the Digital Privacy and
|
|||
|
|
Security Working Group, a coalition of companies and public interest
|
|||
|
|
groups - including IBM, Apple, Sun, Microsoft, and, interestingly,
|
|||
|
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Clipper phone manufacturer AT&T - that is working to get the embargo
|
|||
|
|
lifted.
|
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|
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|
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ENLIST!
|
|||
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|
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|
|
Self-serving as it sounds coming from me, you can do a lot to help by
|
|||
|
|
becoming a member of one of these organizations. In addition to giving
|
|||
|
|
you access to the latest information on this subject, every additional
|
|||
|
|
member strengthens our credibility with Congress.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
> Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation by writing membership@eff.org.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
> Join Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility by e-mailing
|
|||
|
|
cpsr.info@cpsr
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
.org. CPSR is also organizing a protest, to which you can lend your
|
|||
|
|
support by sending e-mail to clipper.petition@cpsr.org with "I oppose
|
|||
|
|
Clipper" in the message body. Ftp/gopher/WAIS to cpsr.org /cpsr/privacy/
|
|||
|
|
crypto/clipper for more info.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In his LA speech, Gore called the development of the NII "a revolution."
|
|||
|
|
And it is a revolutionary war we are engaged in here. Clipper is a last
|
|||
|
|
ditch attempt by the United States, the last great power from the old
|
|||
|
|
Industrial Era, to establish imperial control over cyberspace. If they
|
|||
|
|
win, the most liberating development in the history of humankind could
|
|||
|
|
become, instead, the surveillance system which will monitor our
|
|||
|
|
grandchildren's morality. We can be better ancestors than that.
|
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|
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|
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San Francisco, California
|
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|
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|
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Wednesday, February 9, 1994
|
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|
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* * *
|
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|
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|
|
John Perry Barlow (barlow@eff.org) is co-founder and Vice-Chairman of the
|
|||
|
|
Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group which defends liberty, both in
|
|||
|
|
Cyberspace and the Physical World. He has three daughters.
|
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|
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|
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|
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LOCAL MUSIC
|
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IN MARCH Judy Ranelli
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|
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|
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Tues. March 8
|
|||
|
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JOHN HENRY/REMY ZERO at The Nick
|
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|
|
John Henry sounds like (and performs some material from) Jimmy
|
|||
|
|
Hendrix. Remy Zero broke up around a year or so ago, so what the...?
|
|||
|
|
Once touted as future recording artists from the 'Ham, with rumors that
|
|||
|
|
extended a record four years about companies giving them large amounts
|
|||
|
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of money, Remy Zero had a neat sound which may or may not be intact in
|
|||
|
|
the current incarnation.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Thur. March 10
|
|||
|
|
DANDELIONS at 22nd Street Jazz Cafe
|
|||
|
|
Go hear Edward (leader of the Ticks) play some songs so sad you'll
|
|||
|
|
be eating a certain anti-depressant soon thereafter. It was a joy to
|
|||
|
|
watch the effects of his melancoly on the traditional peppy girls and
|
|||
|
|
lawyers at the Back Alley awhile back. Inspires me to remain
|
|||
|
|
untherapied.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Fri. March 11
|
|||
|
|
LABREA STOMBERS/9 POUND HAMMER at The Nick
|
|||
|
|
Rockabillyclub and 3 chords on 10.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sat. March 12
|
|||
|
|
JASON AND THE SCORCHERS/WEBB WILDER at Five Points South Music Hall
|
|||
|
|
Jason & Co. put on a cool show at City Stages, and Webb Wilder
|
|||
|
|
remains the same giant thing. I may not buy the albums, but I'd attend
|
|||
|
|
and buy a beer or six.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Thurs. March 17
|
|||
|
|
Bagpipers at Dugan's
|
|||
|
|
*If* they're really bagpipers, I would attend for weirdness sake.
|
|||
|
|
Even if they're awful, I'd rather have that than Cowboy Junkies at the
|
|||
|
|
Five Pts. South Music Hall, which you might like. I recieved a Cowboy
|
|||
|
|
Junkies t-shirt for working the show at Sloss some years back, and my
|
|||
|
|
friend Marjorie recommended that I alter the back to read "Amboy Dukes".
|
|||
|
|
I should have.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Fri. March 18
|
|||
|
|
JOHNNY WINTER at Five Points South Music Hall
|
|||
|
|
See albino man, real black tattoos.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Sat. March 19
|
|||
|
|
Six bands at The Nick
|
|||
|
|
Who are they? Who knows? It's free.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Sun. March 20
|
|||
|
|
FUZZY SUNS/24th CENTURY QUAKERS at The Nick
|
|||
|
|
Once upon a time, several years ago, I was in a band that did quirky
|
|||
|
|
weird tunes and dressed in sorts of costumy things like nun habits. Now
|
|||
|
|
we've got those in costume (Sugar La Las), and those in quirkness (see
|
|||
|
|
above). I like this quirkness muchly, understand. But we also gave
|
|||
|
|
away free prizes, and I've seen none of that. Is there significance?
|
|||
|
|
Forget all of that. See the show. It features some guys who have
|
|||
|
|
decided to be creative and different, and we need more of that in this
|
|||
|
|
world.
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
Mon. March 21
|
|||
|
|
SLIM DUNLAP/GARGOYLES at The Nick
|
|||
|
|
Slim is an ex-Replacement and nice guy, and his album is cool. I
|
|||
|
|
recommend this for those who like later Replacement stuff and appreciate
|
|||
|
|
sincerity in music. (Now isn't that a pretentious thing for me to say.
|
|||
|
|
But it's true--he's the real thing, someone who performs for the joy of
|
|||
|
|
it.)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Tues. March 22
|
|||
|
|
TINY LIGHTS/EVERY ALICE ON EARTH at The Nick
|
|||
|
|
Tiny Lights is very strange, pretty melodies. Last time I heard
|
|||
|
|
them, I bought an album the next day. I liked them better live than I
|
|||
|
|
did the album, but all that means is that it will be a very, very good
|
|||
|
|
show. Had a cello player when I saw them.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Okay, I admit, nothing else sounds very exciting to me for the end
|
|||
|
|
of the month. After all, these are just my opinions, and even I end up
|
|||
|
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seeing the same bands twice a month (some play after the 22nd, you find
|
|||
|
|
out which if you want). Besides, I've been up past my bedtime doing
|
|||
|
|
this; it's three in the afternoon.
|
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As you can see, I haven't listed many acts at the new Five Points
|
|||
|
|
South Music Hall, because even though they are "big" acts, they aren't
|
|||
|
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my kind of music.
|
|||
|
|
Here's a story: there was this very useful Shop-a- Snak on 20th and
|
|||
|
|
Highland, which was torn down and left as a vacant lot. Someone had the
|
|||
|
|
sense to open this lot as free parking, very useful indeed, because once
|
|||
|
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I had come to rely on it, they closed the lot and built a useless Ruby
|
|||
|
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Tuesdays. However, my veggie friends say the new restaurant has good
|
|||
|
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vegetarian burgers which they will devour, so my useful vacant lot/mini
|
|||
|
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mart is making someone happy now, even if it's not me.
|
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|
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|
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Among the many stupid city decisions, Arlington Crest's abomination
|
|||
|
|
and the Birmingham Green crap being my favorites, one of the lesser has
|
|||
|
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been the harassment of those who tack band flyers on telephone poles
|
|||
|
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around Southside. I quite understand the motivation to harass, but with
|
|||
|
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no *options*, most resort to the ol' staple guns. What's needed?
|
|||
|
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Kiosks around the fountain area and in Highland park areas.
|
|||
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|
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|
|
A new and interesting bar is the Garages, located in the old Garages
|
|||
|
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of course, with pricey beer but nice atmosphere, including a courtyard
|
|||
|
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full of broken cement statues and benches to hide among in the dark.
|
|||
|
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Until someone cracks their skull on some unseen cemetary art, it remains
|
|||
|
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the best place to drink beer in peace. A friend who rents a great old
|
|||
|
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house in Southside inquired about buying the place. She was informed by
|
|||
|
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her rental manager (what else can I call it?) that the owner of the
|
|||
|
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property intends to "let the house rot (along with several he owns
|
|||
|
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adjacent) and build apartments". This is just the sort of thing that
|
|||
|
|
will ruin one of the city's most interesting neighborhoods. I need to
|
|||
|
|
get on one of those ambulance chaser commercials shaking my head at a
|
|||
|
|
demolished white columned house while saying "There oughta be a law".
|
|||
|
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Because, personally, I think there should be some sort of protection
|
|||
|
|
(good sense would do) against removing the grand old houses of Birmingham
|
|||
|
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and replacing them with roach infested apartment complexes in the
|
|||
|
|
"Florida motel" style. And while they're at it, I want my favorite view
|
|||
|
|
of the city back, removed by the Arlington Crest Abomination. Y'all can
|
|||
|
|
keep the Shop-a-Snak.
|
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|
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|
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|
################################################################
|
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|
|
NONPROFIT AGENCIES ON
|
|||
|
|
THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY press release
|
|||
|
|
################################################################
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
|
[The following is a press release on behalf of Catholic Charities.
|
|||
|
|
Thanks to David Almada for providing us with it.]
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NONPROFITS NOTE ON INFO. HIGHWAY
|
|||
|
|
Charities Work Together With Valuable Computer Resource
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For Immediate Release
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
San Diego, California
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Local nonprofit agencies have a unique way of communicating with
|
|||
|
|
themselves, they send E-Mail. An Electronic Bulletin Board System
|
|||
|
|
located at Catholic Charities provides electronic mail capabilities
|
|||
|
|
for local agencies to send electronic mail. The 386 system uses
|
|||
|
|
SCO Xenix Operating System and has numerous phone numbers for access
|
|||
|
|
from differing areas. Nonprofit agencies in the central and north
|
|||
|
|
counties have benefited from its use over the years but the system
|
|||
|
|
had not generated as much attention or popularity until June of
|
|||
|
|
1993 when the Internet Mail (UUCP) connection was established.
|
|||
|
|
Connection of Electronic Mail from this computer system to other
|
|||
|
|
networks, such as Prodigy, CompuServe, HandsNet, Connect, Universities
|
|||
|
|
and numerous other computer networks has spurred increasing system
|
|||
|
|
use. So much so that an additional 425MB hard drive had to be added
|
|||
|
|
to meet increased use.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board System Menu
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
look jump print add find display expand shrink gossip
|
|||
|
|
restore topic create workarea users options mail quit xadmin help
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
HELP(look):View topic selected with cursors, enter to
|
|||
|
|
view, ESC returns
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
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|
|
---------- Electronic Bulletin Board System -------------
|
|||
|
|
Meeting Schedules, Agendas, and Events
|
|||
|
|
Bed Availability, Homeless & At Risk Directory
|
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Service Provider's ( Discontinued / New / Changed / Temporary )
|
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Funding, Grants, Endowments, Resources, Donation (Need/Avail.)
|
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Job Availability Information
|
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Volunteer Needs and Ideas
|
|||
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Computer & EBB System Related Information
|
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Individual User Directories
|
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Health Care, Prenatal Care, & Medical Related
|
|||
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Seniors, Children, and Disabled
|
|||
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Computer & EBB System Related Information
|
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Individual User Directories
|
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|
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Health Care, Prenatal Care, & Medical Related
|
|||
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Seniors, Children, and Disabled
|
|||
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Food/Hunger & Poverty Issues
|
|||
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F.E.M.A.
|
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S.D. Community Back To Work Transportation Fund
|
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Some of the resources available on this system are bed
|
|||
|
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availability information, inter-agency electronic mail, client
|
|||
|
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referral coordination and file transfer capabilities. The main
|
|||
|
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menu allows the users to send electronic mail or post
|
|||
|
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information in topic sections related to their organizations.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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In addition, contact with agencies across the country and around
|
|||
|
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the world is accomplished via UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX System Copy).
|
|||
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Space = Next Command F1 = Help CTRL X = EXIT
|
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Agencies have supported the Electronic Bulletin Board by way
|
|||
|
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of subscription fees for several years now but the project was
|
|||
|
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initially started with donations and grants. The system does
|
|||
|
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offer incredible capabilities for its users and it is a very
|
|||
|
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valuable step to the Information Superhighway. David Almada
|
|||
|
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of Catholic Charities Says "I am very surprised by the
|
|||
|
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response. I have been receiving E-Mail from nonprofits in Moscow
|
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|
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and Argentina asking for information about our system. I had no
|
|||
|
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idea the computers connected that far! It is relatively simple
|
|||
|
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to connect users to the system, all they need is a modem,
|
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Catholic Charities provides communications software.
|
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|
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|
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The system has an international identification of spdn
|
|||
|
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which stands for service providers data network and electronic
|
|||
|
|
mail can be sent to ccsd@spdn.cts.com from around the world. A
|
|||
|
|
demonstration has been scheduled for nonprofit agencies on
|
|||
|
|
Thursday, March 17, 1994. Nonprofit agencies that may not be
|
|||
|
|
aware of the system or its new information highway capabilities
|
|||
|
|
are highly encouraged to contact Catholic Charities for more
|
|||
|
|
Information at (619) 231-2828 x234.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Some of the area agencies that have contributed to the
|
|||
|
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CCSD/Electronic Bulletin Board System by way of subscription fees:
|
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|
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|
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AIDS Foundation, San Diego
|
|||
|
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Brother Benno's
|
|||
|
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Catholic Charities, San Diego
|
|||
|
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City of San Diego Community Services
|
|||
|
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Community Christian Service Agency
|
|||
|
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Community Connection Resource Center
|
|||
|
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County of San Diego - Community Action Partnership
|
|||
|
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Crisis House, Inc.
|
|||
|
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Ecumenical Service Center
|
|||
|
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Episcopal Community Services
|
|||
|
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Foundation for Educational Achievement
|
|||
|
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Info-Line of San Diego County
|
|||
|
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Interfaith Shelter Network
|
|||
|
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Logan Heights Family Health Center
|
|||
|
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Lutheran Social Services
|
|||
|
|
METRO - United Meth. Urban Ministries
|
|||
|
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Neighborhood House Association
|
|||
|
|
North County Interfaith Council
|
|||
|
|
North County Lifeline Community Services
|
|||
|
|
Rachel's Night Shelter
|
|||
|
|
Regional Task Force on the Homeless
|
|||
|
|
Saint Vincent De Paul Center
|
|||
|
|
Salvation Army, San Diego
|
|||
|
|
San Diego Food Bank
|
|||
|
|
San Diego Hunger Coalition
|
|||
|
|
San Diego Mental Health Services
|
|||
|
|
The Presbytery Council of San Diego / Presbytery Crisis Ctr.
|
|||
|
|
Traveler's Aid
|
|||
|
|
United Way Labor Participation
|
|||
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|
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|
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
################################################################
|
|||
|
|
SPECIAL INTEREST
|
|||
|
|
GROUPS (SIG's)
|
|||
|
|
[COMPUTER RELATED] compiled by Eric Hunt
|
|||
|
|
################################################################
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BIPUG Alabama UniForum
|
|||
|
|
Birmingham IBM-PC Users Group Homewood Public Library
|
|||
|
|
UAB Nutrition Science Blg 1st Tuesday
|
|||
|
|
RM 535/541 Shawn Cleary 870-6130
|
|||
|
|
1st Sunday (delayed one week
|
|||
|
|
if meeting is a holiday)
|
|||
|
|
Marty Schulman 967-5883
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Birmingham Apple Core
|
|||
|
|
Informal breakfast meeting every Saturday, 9am - 11am
|
|||
|
|
@ Kopper Kettle, lower level Brookwood Village Mall
|
|||
|
|
Formal meeting held second Saturday of each month, location
|
|||
|
|
variable (to be announced at breakfast meetings and in the
|
|||
|
|
user group's newsletter "The PEEL".)
|
|||
|
|
President: Sam Johnston - 322-5379
|
|||
|
|
Vice-Prez: Marie Prater - 822-8135
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The SIG listing is being re-verified. If you know of an active
|
|||
|
|
Computer Related user's group, please let me know.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I can be reached via Internet email at
|
|||
|
|
eric.hunt@the-matrix.com or drop me a note directly on the
|
|||
|
|
MATRIX.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
################################################################
|
|||
|
|
KNOWN BBS NUMBERS
|
|||
|
|
FOR THE
|
|||
|
|
BIRMINGHAM AREA compiled by Luke Whitley
|
|||
|
|
################################################################
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In case you're the type of person who skips to the BBS List every
|
|||
|
|
month, be aware that we have a NEW Master of the List! His name is
|
|||
|
|
Luke Whitley, and it is to HIM that you should address your
|
|||
|
|
corrections, updates, etc. Sysops, PLEASE check your listing to
|
|||
|
|
make sure everything is correct, especially the networks.
|
|||
|
|
Corrections should be mailed to either Luke Whitley or Scott
|
|||
|
|
Hollifield on The Matrix, Crunchy Frog, or Southern Stallion.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The following are new additions to this month's list. Note that
|
|||
|
|
the information here is not entirely complete. Help will be appreciated
|
|||
|
|
from anyone who can fill in the blanks; send mail to Scott Hollifield
|
|||
|
|
or Luke Whitley.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BatCave BBS 744-0134 1200-14000 V.42bis VBBS 6.12
|
|||
|
|
[fn, vi, bi, cr, co]
|
|||
|
|
The Confederates BBS 967-6176
|
|||
|
|
[?]
|
|||
|
|
Heat Wave 436-4518 VBBS 6.12
|
|||
|
|
[?]
|
|||
|
|
Night Games 491-3332 300-14400 VBBS 6.12
|
|||
|
|
[vi, bi, ho, cr, co]
|
|||
|
|
The Parthenon BBS 678-9676 1200-28880 Wildcat 3.9
|
|||
|
|
[ru, wi, uni]
|
|||
|
|
Purple Toupee 631-4533 1200-14400 V.32/42bis PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[fi, mn, fr, ca]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTE: The Purple Toupee is not a new BBS, but we've been neglect in
|
|||
|
|
adding it to the list. Our apologies to the sysop!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The following systems have been on the List for at least one month:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ADAnet One (Nodes 1-3) 250-0013 1200-2400 PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, fi, ad]
|
|||
|
|
ADAnet One (Node 4) 254-6050 2400-14400 USR DS PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, fi, ad]
|
|||
|
|
Alcatraz BBS 608-0880 300-9600 PCBoard 15.0
|
|||
|
|
[he, vi]
|
|||
|
|
Alter-Ego BBS 925-5099 1200-9600 USR HST PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn]
|
|||
|
|
Baudville (Nodes 1-7) 995-0013 300-2400 Major BBS 6.12
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Bloom County 985-4335 300-28800 VFC 28.8 PCBoard 15.1
|
|||
|
|
[in,fr]
|
|||
|
|
Bus System 987-5419 300-2400 PCBoard 14.2
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Byte Me! 979-BYTE! 2400-14400 V.32 WWIV 4.12
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Castle, The 841-7618 300-2400 Image 1.2
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Channel 8250 (Node 1) 744-8546 300-14400 USR DS PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, un]
|
|||
|
|
Channel 8250 (Node 2) 744-5166 300-14400 USR DS PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, un]
|
|||
|
|
Cherry Tree 681-1710 1200-14400 TriBBS 4.01
|
|||
|
|
[wm, ca]
|
|||
|
|
Christian Apologetic 808-0763 1200-14400 V.32bis Wildcat! 3.90
|
|||
|
|
[ez, cp]
|
|||
|
|
Crocodile Country BBS 477-6283 1200-16800 USR DS Searchlight 3.5 *RIP*
|
|||
|
|
[sl, fi]
|
|||
|
|
Crunchy Frog (Node 1) 823-3957 300-14400 USR DS PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn, lu, ll]
|
|||
|
|
Crunchy Frog (Node 2) 823-3958 300-14400 USR DS PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn, lu, ll]
|
|||
|
|
Crystal Village 856-3749 1200-2400 VBBS 6.10
|
|||
|
|
[cr, ho, co, fn, vi]
|
|||
|
|
Den, The 933-8744 300-14400 USR DS PCBoard 15.1
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn, il]
|
|||
|
|
Digital Publishing 854-1660 300-9600 V.32 Wildcat! 3.60
|
|||
|
|
[pl]
|
|||
|
|
Electro-BBS 491-8402 300-14400 V.32/42 Maximus 2.01
|
|||
|
|
[fi]
|
|||
|
|
Family Smorgas-Board 744-0943 300-2400 PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, fi, mj, bc, fa, ic, cf, cd, ve, ad, wg, pt, ed, gn]
|
|||
|
|
Final Frontier 838-5634 300-14400 VBBS 6.11 *RIP*
|
|||
|
|
[he, re, fn]
|
|||
|
|
Genesis Online(Nodes 1-6) 620-4150 300-14400 V.32bis Major BBS 6.11
|
|||
|
|
[mr]
|
|||
|
|
Gone Fishin' 733-0860 1200-14000 V.42bis Searchlight 3.5a *RIP*
|
|||
|
|
[sl]
|
|||
|
|
Guardian, The (Node 1) 425-1951 1200-14400 V.42bis VBBS 6.11
|
|||
|
|
[vi]
|
|||
|
|
Guardian, The (Node 2) 425-1956 1200-14400 V.42bis VBBS 6.11
|
|||
|
|
[vi]
|
|||
|
|
Joker's Castle 664-5589 300-14400 USR DS PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn, un]
|
|||
|
|
KickAxis BBS (Node 1) 733-0253 1200-14400 USR DS PCBoard 15.0
|
|||
|
|
[he]
|
|||
|
|
KickAxis BBS (Node 2) 733-0299 1200-14400 USR DS PCBoard 15.0
|
|||
|
|
[he]
|
|||
|
|
Leaping's Lounge 856-2521 1200-14400 GTPower 18.00
|
|||
|
|
[gt, ez, mn, wm, di]
|
|||
|
|
Lions Den 871-9668 300-14400 USR DS Wildcat! 3.90
|
|||
|
|
[wi, fi]
|
|||
|
|
Lumby's Palace 520-0041 300-14400 VBBS 6.0
|
|||
|
|
[he]
|
|||
|
|
Magic City (Node 1) 664-9883 300-14400 USR DS Wildcat! 3.90
|
|||
|
|
[di, wm, wi, ca, cm, pe]
|
|||
|
|
Magic City (Node 2) 664-0435 300-14400 V.32bis Wildcat! 3.90
|
|||
|
|
[di, wm, wi, ca, cm, pe]
|
|||
|
|
Magnolia BBS 854-6407 300-14400 USR HST PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn]
|
|||
|
|
MATRIX, The (Nodes 1-14) 323-2016 300-2400 PCBoard 15.0 *RIP*
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn, th, il, in, us, sh, sc, gl, ic, ri, fr]
|
|||
|
|
MATRIX, The (Nodes 20-23) 323-6016 9600-14400 USR DS PCBoard 15.0 *RIP*
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn, th, il, in, us, sh, sc, gl, ic, ri, fr]
|
|||
|
|
MATRIX, The (Node 25-26) 458-3449 9600-14400 V.32bis PCBoard 15.0 *RIP*
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn, th, il, in, us, sh, sc, gl, ic, ri, fr]
|
|||
|
|
MetaBoard 854-4814 300-14400 USR DS Opus CBCS 1.73
|
|||
|
|
[fi, ad]
|
|||
|
|
MetroMac BBS (Node 1) 323-6306 1200-28800 V.FC TeleFinder 3.1
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
MetroMac BBS (Node 2) 252-0582 1200-28800 V.FC TeleFinder 3.1
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Milliways BBS (Node 1) 956-3177 1200-2400 Major BBS 6.11 *RIP*
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Milliways BBS(Nodes 2-6)956-2731 1200-2400 Major BBS 6.11 *RIP*
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Missing Link 853-1257 300-16800 USR DS C-Net Amiga 2.63
|
|||
|
|
[cl, cn]
|
|||
|
|
Neon Moon 477-5894 300-14400 TriBBS 4.0
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Party Line 856-1336 300-14000 V.32bis TriBBS 4.0
|
|||
|
|
[cc, wm, di]
|
|||
|
|
Playground 681-5070 1200-14000 V.32 TriBBS 5.0
|
|||
|
|
[wm, di, ez]
|
|||
|
|
Posys BBS 854-5131 300-9600 V.32 PCBoard
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Programmer's Shack 988-4695 2400-14400 HST DS Renegade
|
|||
|
|
[ws, fi, it]
|
|||
|
|
Quiet Zone 833-2066 300-2400 ExpressNet
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Safe Harbor (Node 1) 665-4332 300-2400 GTPower 18.00
|
|||
|
|
[gt, ez, mn, lg, ae, fr]
|
|||
|
|
Safe Harbor (Node 2) 665-4355 300-14400 USR DS GTPower 18.00
|
|||
|
|
[gt, ez, mn, lg, ae, fr]
|
|||
|
|
Sam's Domain 956-2757 1200-14400 SL. 3.50
|
|||
|
|
[da, he]
|
|||
|
|
Safety BBS 581-2866 300-2400 RBBS-PC 17.4
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
Southern Stallion 322-3816 300-16800 ZyXEL PCBoard 15.1 *RIP*
|
|||
|
|
[ez, lu, th, rs, ss, it]
|
|||
|
|
Sperry BBS 853-6144 300-2400 V.32/42b PCBoard 15.0
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
ST BBS 836-9311 300-14400 HST PCBoard 14.2
|
|||
|
|
[ez]
|
|||
|
|
StarBase 12 647-7184 1200-14000 TriBBS 4.0
|
|||
|
|
[ez, mn, wm]
|
|||
|
|
Thy Master's Dungeon 940-2116 300-57600 V.32/42b PCBoard 14.5
|
|||
|
|
[fr]
|
|||
|
|
Torch Song 328-1517 1200-14000 V.32/42b Wildcat 3.6
|
|||
|
|
[pr, st, gn]
|
|||
|
|
Weekends BBS 841-8583 2400-16800 USR DS Wildcat! 3.9
|
|||
|
|
[ca]
|
|||
|
|
Willie's DYM (Node 1) 664-9902 300-2400 Oracomm Plus
|
|||
|
|
[or]
|
|||
|
|
Willie's DYM (Node 2) 664-9903 300-2400 Oracomm Plus
|
|||
|
|
[or]
|
|||
|
|
Willie's DYM (Node 3) 664-9895 300-2400 Oracomm Plus
|
|||
|
|
[or]
|
|||
|
|
Willie's DYM (Node 4) 664-9896 300-2400 Oracomm Plus
|
|||
|
|
[or]
|
|||
|
|
Ziggy Unix BBS 991-5696 300-1200 UNaXess
|
|||
|
|
[none]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
*RIP* = BBS Software is RIP Graphics capable. You must be using a RIP
|
|||
|
|
compatible term software to view them. RIPTerm or QmodemPro v1.50 are
|
|||
|
|
the only two I know of that support it at this time. RIPTerm is shareware
|
|||
|
|
and can be downloaded from most BBS's. QmodemPro is a commercial product.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The two-letter abbreviations you see on the line below the names of
|
|||
|
|
many of the bbs' in the list signify that they are members of one or
|
|||
|
|
more networks that exchange or echo mail to each other in some organized
|
|||
|
|
fashion.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ad = ADAnet, an international network dedicated to the handicapped
|
|||
|
|
ae = Arts & Entertainment, a national network, multi-topic
|
|||
|
|
ag = AgapeNet, a national Christian network, multi-topic
|
|||
|
|
an = AnnexNet, an international network, multi-topic
|
|||
|
|
at = AdultNet, a national network, adult-oriented
|
|||
|
|
bc = BCBNet, a local network, religion-oriented
|
|||
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bh = BhamTalk, a local network, multi-topic
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bi = BitchNet, uncertain at press time
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ca = CafeNet, a local network, restaurant/dining, recipes, etc.
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cc = Coast2Coast, a national network, multi-topic
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cd = CDN, a national Christian network for file distribution
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cf = CFN, a national Christian network, multi-topic
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ch = ChristNet, a national Christian network
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cl = CLink, uncertain at press time
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cm = CompuLink, a national network, multi-topic
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cn = CNet, multi-topic
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co = ComicNet, a local net for comic book readers
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cp = CAPNet, a national Christian network, multi-topic
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cr = CrystalNet, uncertain at press time
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cy = Cybernet, uncertain at press time
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da = DateNet, uncertain at press time
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de = DevNet, an international network for programmers and developers
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di = Dixie Net, a regional network, multi-topic geared toward the south
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eastern United States
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do = DoorNet, a national network for the distribution of BBS doors
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ec = EchoNet, an international network, multi-topic
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ed = EduNet, a national network devoted to homeschooling and Christian
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education
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er = ErosNet, an international network, adult oriented, files & messages
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ez = EzNet, a local IBM compatible network
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fa = FamilyNet, an international network, multi-topic
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fi = FidoNet, an international network, multi-topic
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fn = FrontierNet, a local network, multi-topic
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fr = FredNet, a regional network, political discussion
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fs = FSNet, uncertain at press time
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ga = GameNet, a local network, uncertain at press time
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gl = GlobalLink, an international network, multi-topic
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gm = GayCom, an international network, homosexually oriented
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gn = GlobeNet, an international network, multi-topic
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gt = GTNet, an international network, multi-topic
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gy = GayNet, a national network, homosexually oriented
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he = HellNet, a local network, multi-topic
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ho = HobbyNet, a local network for hobbyists
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ic = ICDM, an international Christian network, multi-topic
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ie = Intelec, a national network, multi-topic
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il = ILink, an international network, multi-topic
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in = InterNet, an international network of mail, linking businesses,
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universities, and bbs', multi-topic
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it = ITCNet, a national network, multi-topic
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lg = Local GT Net, a local network, connecting GT Power systems
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ll = LlamaNet, a national network, freeform correspondence
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lo = LocalNet, uncertain at press time
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lu = LuciferNet, an international network, adult oriented
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ma = MAXnet, a local network, connecting WWIV and VBBS systems
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mj = MJCN, an international network for Messianic Jews
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mn = Metronet, an international network which echoes RIME, multi-topic
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mr = MajorNet, an international network, multi-topic
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nl = NewLife, uncertain at press time
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np = NPN, a national network for new parents
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or = OraNet, a national E-mail network
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pe = Planet Earth Network, a national network, multi-topic
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pl = PlanoNet, a national network, multi-topic
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pn = PoliceNet, an international network, law-enforcement only
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pr = PrideNet, a national homosexually oriented network
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pt = PRNet, a national network devoted to 2nd amendment rights
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rf = RF Net, a national network for ham radio users and hobbyists
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ri = RIME, an international network, multi-topic
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rb = RoboLink, a national network, multi-topic
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re = RealityNet, uncertain at press time
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rp = RPGnet, a local network for role-playing games
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rs = RoseNet, a national network, technically orient*ed
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ru = RushNet, a national network for Rush Limbaugh fans
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sc = Science Factor Net, a national network, science and technology
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oriented
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se = SEC, a regional network, homosexually oriented geared toward the
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southeastern United States
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sh = Shades N Shadows Net, a national network for role-playing games
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sl = SearchlightNet, a national network, multi-topic
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sm = SmartNet, a national network, multi-topic
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sn = ShadowNet, a national network for role-playing games
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ss = SexSations!, a national network, adult-oriented
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st = StudsNet, a national network, homosexually oriented
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sz = SCN-Net, uncertain at press time
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te = TECHnet, a local network, hardware and utility oriented
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th = ThrobNet, an international network, adult oriented
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un = U'NI-Net, an international network, multi-topic
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us = Usenet, an international network existing on the Internet, multi-
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topic
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ve = VETLink, a national network for military veterans
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vi = VirtualNet, an international network, multi-topic
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wg = WGA, an international network devoted to genealogy research
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wi = WildNet, a national network, multi-topic
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wm = World Message Exchange, an international network, multi-topic
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ws = WishNet, uncertain at press time
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ww = WWIV-Net, an international network, multi-topic
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