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Der Weltanschauung (The WorldView) Origin: HOUSTON, TEXAS USA
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June 20, 1992 Volume 2, Issue 5
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FTP: ftp.eff.org pub/cud/wview
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To submit material, or to subscribe to the magazine contact this address:
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"Let us arise, let us arise against the oppressors of humanity; all kings,
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emperors, presidents of republics, priests of all religions are the true
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enemies of the people; let us destroy along with them all juridical,
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political, civil and religious institutions."
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-Manifesto of anarchists in the Romagna, 1878
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The World View Staff: InterN
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et Address:
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The Desert Fox [Editor] root@fennec.sccsi.com
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Cyndre The Grey [CoEditor] root@ashpool.sccsi.com
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Subscription Requests request@fennec.sccsi.com
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WORLD VIEW NEWSGROUP: wv@taronga.com
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FTP SITE: ftp.eff.org /pub/cud/wview
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Printing Policy Of The World View Magazine
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It is the policy of T
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he World View to review any material that is
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received by us for the purpose of distribution. We respect the rights of all
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authors/contributors under the Constitution of the United States, and we
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will honor all requests for anonymity. Any inquiries regarding the
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questionable content of an article written by someone other than the editors
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of this publication should be directed to the author. A return E-mail
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address will be provided if applicable. Reprinting of material from
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this magazine is highly en
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couraged. Please site the source of the material,
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and gain permission from the author when refering to submitted articles.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1) Current Texas Organizational CyberEvents.................Blivion
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2) Final Ad For Legion Of Doom T-Shirts!....................Chris Goggans
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3) Bringing New Users Into The Net..........................Blivion
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4) A Misanthropy Primer.............
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........................Modok Tarleton
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Current Texas Organizational Cyberevents
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By Bryan O' Blivion (blivion@taronga.com)
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Next month will be a year since the organizational meeting of the EFF -
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Austin chapter, the first local chapter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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in the USA. At the organization's first annual general membership meeting in
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Austin in May 1992, over 60 members and inte
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rested persons appeared.
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Coalescing around the leadership and support of local cyber-celebrities
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Steve Jackson, John Quarterman, and the notorious Bruce Sterling
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(whose book Hacker Crackdown is due out soon), the group has set up active
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newsgroups and mailing lists (eff-a@tic.com) on the Net for discussion and
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organization around our common concerns.
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Solid achievements of the Austin EFF include the formal organization
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of the chapter, with adoption of bylaws and election and monthly meetings
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of a Board of Directors. A successful annual meeting and several other
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meetings, formal and informal, enhanced our mutual contacts; sort of an
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Elks Club for cyberspace frontiersmen socializing, after building our
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rude 386 cabins.
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Booths and appearances at cons and national conferences by
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distinguished Austin EFF members gave the movement good publicity,
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as did Bruce Sterling during his own work and travels. The flag and
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T-shirts are also real zippy.
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In Houston, the cyber-libertie
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s scene remains loosely organized
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around the regular publications like WordView and NIA magazines, which
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continue to publish regularly. NIA magazine may even have its latest
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issue out soon. SummerCon in St Louis is the place to be in June for
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national exposure, but local 'snerds', cyberlunches' and 'cyberdawgs'
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(apparently the Austin version of such an event) as well as a series
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of continuing, highly educational private Saturday night parties
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provide the backbone of our networking strength. The set
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up of a Coherent
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unix (ashpool.sccsi.com) and a uucp'd dos-based node, (fennec.sccsi.com)
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by Cyndre the Grey and Desert Fox respectively have effectively merged
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our local nodes into the Net, which we count as a significant achievement.
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Taronga continues to provide its excellent support with access and our
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own wv@taronga.com newsgroup.
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But as John Quarterman put it, "It's easy to exchange warm fuzzies..."
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and basically get self-congratulatory about our common ideals, ignoring
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individual dif
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ferences of opinion, but the real world brings a different
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set of problems.
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Communication between EFF National (Cambridge) and EFF Austin has
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suffered of late. After a meeting of the Austin EFF Board decided to
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incorporate, Mitch Kapor seemed to back off his support for that, indicating
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that incorporation may not be appropriate for a local chapter. This puzzled
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the EFF-BOD as well as all onlookers. Mitch recently responded to an inquiry
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from WorldView staff about a Houston chapter of EFF by
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saying that we were
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basically on our own, as no one had been tasked yet by National to deal with
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local chapter relations, and that all present National staff are running at
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125% of capacity. Inexperience in major convention planning have caused
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the indefinite postponement of this event -- too bad!
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It appears to this writer that the event planning was too ambitious
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in scope, trying to involve everyone in the world. The WorldView heartily
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supports any such project, but it must be reasonable
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in scope at first,
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then allowed to grow naturally. Perhaps more informal gatherings, not as
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tightly organized and planned as a major con, can become something on the
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scale originally planned. In any case, thanks for trying and for all the
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work. Readers of the CyberTex mailing list know that it drew major interest
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from users all over the world, the WELL, etc.
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So here we are, in the second year of our fragile joint existence as
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a tenuous cloud, a web of potential connections. Our strength is
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in our
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networking, and I call for more informal get-togethers under any name,
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in Houston or in Austin. Networking, cooperation rather than competition,
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is our strength. Rather than planning the world's greatest virtual festival,
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let's just start by having a good time and learning from each other. We will
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continue to publish, the Austin chapter will proceed under its excellent
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Board of Directors, and we'll have a few parties.....
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FINAL CALL FOR LOD SHIRTS!
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By Chris Goggans (erikb@fennec.sccsi.com)
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Net Denizens:
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With all the amazing hullabaloo going on in several newsgroups
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and throughout the electronic community as a whole, I have decided
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to go ahead and make one more, FINAL, print run on the LOD
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t-shirts.
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Please, if anyone is interested, have your mail sent by the
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end of July, so everyone who wants one can get one this time.
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I thought that in the 6 print orders I made previou
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sly "Everyone"
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who wanted one got one, but from the requests I have received
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apparently not.
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I was amazed at the orders that came in from locations such
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as Hong Kong, England, Netherlands and Australia. The list of
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luminaries who came out of the woodwork with an interest in such
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item was equally as impressive, security types at LLNL, government
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employees, hackers from the golden days, and even a certain regular
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contributor to a few "not for normal distribution" mail lists.
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This run is for th
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ose of you who got left out. Again, I urge that
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you respond BEFORE JULY 31, 1992, as that is when it the opportunity
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ends FOREVER!
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Blatant promotion follows:
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"LEGION OF DOOM--INTERNET WORLD TOUR" T-SHIRTS!
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Now you too can own an official Legion of Doom T-shirt. This
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is the same shirt that sold-out rapidly at the "Cyberview"
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hackers conference in St. Louis. Join the other proud owners
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such as Lotus founder Mitch Kapor and award-winning author Bruce
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Sterling by adding this collector's item
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to your wardrobe. This
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professionally made, 100 percent cotton shirt is printed on both
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front and back. The front displays "Legion of Doom Internet World
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Tour" as well as a sword and telephone intersecting the planet
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earth, skull-and-crossbones style. The back displays the
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words "Hacking for Jesus" as well as a substantial list of "tour-stops"
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(internet sites) and a quote from Aleister Crowley. This T-shirt is sold
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only as a novelty item, and is in no way attempting to glorify computer
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crime.
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Shirts are only $15.00, postage included! Overseas add an
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additional $5.00. Send CHECK or MONEY-ORDER (NO CODs, cash or
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credit cards--even if it's really your card) made payable to
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Chris Goggans to:
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Chris Goggans
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5620 Glenmont #P-17
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Houston, TX 77081
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BRINGING NEW USERS INTO THE NET
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By Bryan O' Blivion (blivion@
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taronga.com)
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InterNet-connected global wide area networks are still new enough
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that most users come from the 3 classic ARPANET communities:
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defense/government contractors' corporate sites, university
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researchers/students, and .gov sites.
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Folks who do not have such a job have historically had little or
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no access to common network services such as news feeds, email, and
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file/message posting and transfer, and little opportunity to learn
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how to use them.
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Several years a
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go, various private UNIX host systems began to
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make net access available to users in a few areas nationwide. DOS-based
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BBS activity simultaneously soared as modems became cheaply available.
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But these two areas of online activity shared little, and the user
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communities rarely interacted.
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The purpose of this article is to relate how some private computer
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enthusiasts in Houston, Texas, originally experienced as DOS and BBS users
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and sysops, obtained participation in UNIX-based WAN network co
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mmunications
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and access to the InterNet.
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Congregating on several BBS's (there are hundreds in the Houston
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Metro area), our informal users group became a .sig for anyone who wanted
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to learn about networked computing. Dissatisfied with even FidoNet and the
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extensive 2000-user chat systems available in Houston, we longed for,
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studied for the freedom of the InterNet. UNIX command sheets were copied,
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manuals studied. We even tried to learn the vi editor. But we lacked that
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all-important accou
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nt on a REAL system, one that gave us a $ prompt..
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Public Unix came to the rescue.
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The widely advertised NixPub systems in Houston are three: NuChat,
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Taronga Park, and Sugarland UNIX. NuChat began by kindly offering a few of us
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accounts that had email. It seemed like magic to send email from a home PC and
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have it appear in a far system. Mailing to Austin took only 2 hours. Then
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Stephanie and Peter da Silva, the good-hearted and long-suffering sysops of
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Taronga Park, opened free shell acco
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unts for such of us as had gotten a little
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command of Unix.
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For the first time I as a private citizen had access to
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Internet-borne email, newsfeeds, a UNIX operating system account....
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and thru the Taronga system, had referrals to private TCP/IP capable
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sites, i.e. TELNET and FTP capability. It was a whole new world; with a
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cheap modem I had suddenly expanded my computer reach from one hard disk
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into the vast cloud of the Matrix.
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For this article, I asked the sysops of taronga.
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com, Stephanie
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and Peter Da Silva, some basic questions about her system and the guiding
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philosophy of this type of Net access. Since any editing of their replies
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would be superfluous, here are peter and arielle@taronga.com. The original
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messages were exchanged through the Coherent sys of a mutual friend
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whose sys was recently enabled as a local InterNet uucp email node
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(ashpool.sccsi.com).
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MISANTHROPY PRIMER
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By Modok Tarleton
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The misanthrope seems to be at a great advantage these days.
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With so many things to dislike in this world, a hater of man has
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more than enough to keep his mind occupied. Often death obsessed
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and sometimes even insane, these people can provide great
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inspiration to those wanting to further their nasty state of
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mind. The following set of quotes from writers, philosophers and
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bona fide lunatics should provide proper inspiration for those
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who might like t
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o go out and add a little negativity to the
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world. Viva vida La muerte!
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself
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does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss
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the abyss also gazes into you.
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Frederich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Before the grim shadow of Pain and Death mere theological
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differences cease to exist.
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Antonio Gallonio, Tortures and Torments of the Christian
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Martyrs
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Life lives by killing and eating itself, casting off d
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eath and
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being reborn like the moon.
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Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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Chaos rules at the beginning and the end of time. Time is the
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creator of all things, but also their devourer.
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Jeffrey Burton Russell, The Devil
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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And death too must live;
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and there's nothing like an insane asylum to tenderly incubate
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death, and to keep the dead in an incubator.
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Antonin Artaud, Artaud Le Momo
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In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedo
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m.
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J.G. Ballard, Running Wild
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Madness is something rare in individuals- but in groups, parties,
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peoples, ages it is the rule.
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Fredrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Order, Disorder,
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Unity, Anarchy,
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Poetry, Dissonance,
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Rhythm, Discord,
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Grandeur, Childishness,
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Generosity, Cruelty
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Antonin Artaud, Heliogabalus
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Just as madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all
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wisdom, so is schizomania the beginning of all art and all
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fantasy.
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Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
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There is a strong connection between fun and terror and death.
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Boyd Rice
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The truth is a knife and cuts sharp
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Charles Manson
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NETWORK USER FEES
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By Patricio Mason <pmason@CHASQUI.MIC.CL>
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A while ago, several members of the list debated the issue of user fees for
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access to computer networks such as the Internet. Most were rightly
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a
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damant that charging for use would have an incalculably detrimental
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effect. I thought you might like to know that here in Chile this scenario
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has suddenly become reality.
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Our Internet hookup is run by CONICYT, (National Council on Science and
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Technology) a government body. Recently, all users of the Internet,
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including universities, were notified that starting July 1st, there will be
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a minimum monthly rate plus a charge per megabyte of international traffic,
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with 18% sales tax on top. This is
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a reversal of an earlier decision
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whereby only a flat rate was charged, regardless of traffic. Both the
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minimum rate and the charge per megabyte are measured in units roughly
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equivalent to CDN$31.00 each, i.e., 10 MB of traffic equals CDN$310.00,
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plus the minimum rate, plus tax. The minimum monthly wage in this country
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is 38,000 pesos, roughly CDN$134.00.
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Although the CONICYT decision was sanctioned by Chile's Council of Rectors
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(university and college presidents), the academic community and ot
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her users
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such as NGOs, non-profit groups and private individuals are stunned and
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outraged. Needless to say, most university presidents are not users and
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simply chose from a limited set of options presented to them by
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administrators and CONICYT functionaries.
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This may very well mean that university professors will have to obtain
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clearance from department heads before replying to colleagues abroad or
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accepting mail from them. Since every byte will cost universities a pretty
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penny, it may also m
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ean that students will be prevented from sending or
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receiving international messages. Few will be allowed to do FTP or Telnet.
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For outside e-mail users such as private individuals and non-profit
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groups, the high cost will probably entail reducing or eliminating use
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altogether.
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Access to the Internet is slightly wider here. High rates mean that only
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those who can afford them, i.e., government and corporate users, will have
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the run of the system. Although one of the consequences of the worldwid
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e
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computer revolution has been to empower the individual as a counterbalance
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to the unbridled power of governments and corporations, the CONICYT
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decision in Chile means that those outside the circles of political or
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financial power will be left out.
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There is no Internet affiliate that I know of which charges on the basis of
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traffic volume. Universities are reeling from the implications: just
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figuring out who is to be billed for what, plus the processing and billing
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aspects, will most certainly
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prove an administrative nightmare. A whole
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new bureaucracy will have to be created at CONICYT and elsewhere to handle
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this.
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There is an international write-in campaign on to try to get CONICYT to
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reverse this decision and discard the notion of charging per amount of
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traffic. Along with members of the academic community within Chile, the
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members of CHILE-L --Chilean academics, students and others scattered
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throughout the world-- are leading this campaign.
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As a (albeit silent) member of CANADA
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-L and Internet user, I thought I'd
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tell you of this and try to enlist your support. If this type of mentality
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is allowed to prevail, it will certainly set a precedent. If you would
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like to help, please write a respectful note to CONICYT, the National
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Council on Science and Technology of Chile, stating your views on this
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issue. Notes should be sent to Mr. Alberto Cabezas and/or Mr. Florencio
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Utreras at
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acabezas@uchdciux.seci.uchile.cl
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futreras@uchdciux.seci.uchile.cl
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CONICYT may also be re
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ached at:
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Canada 308
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2o Piso
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Providencia
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Santiago, Chile
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Tel.: (562) 274-4537, 204-7541, 204-7542, 204-7566
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I will be glad to provide further information to anyone interested. And of
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course, feel free to cross-post. Thanks in advance.
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Patricio Mason
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(Carleton/U of T)
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Santiago, Chile
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pmason@chasqui.mic.cl
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