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From <@vm42.cso.uiuc.edu:owner-cudigest@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU> Sun Jun 26 22:36:32 1994
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 21:24:00 CDT
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Reply-To: TK0JUT2@MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU
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Sender: CU-DIGEST list <CUDIGEST%UIUCVMD.bitnet@vm42.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Subject: Cu Digest, #6.57
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To: Multiple recipients of list CUDIGEST <CUDIGEST%UIUCVMD.bitnet@vm42.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Computer underground Digest Sun June 26, 1994 Volume 6 : Issue 57
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ISSN 1004-042X
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Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET)
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Archivist: Brendan Kehoe
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Retiring Shadow Archivist: Stanton McCandlish
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Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth
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Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala
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Ian Dickinson
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Coptic Idolator: Ephram Shrewdlieu
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CONTENTS, #6.57 (Sun, June 26, 1994)
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File 1--NEWS: Corporate losses due to Intrntl Copyright piracy (fwd)
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File 2--Response to Loka Inst. NII views (CuD 6.50)
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File 3--Response to "Egalitarianism as Irrational" (CuD 5.51)
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File 4--Internet Access in France--State of the Art
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File 5--CPSR supports Ethics Campaign
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File 6--Groups Hail New Bill For Public Space on NII
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File 7--A Comment on the Tandy employee/no bbs piece
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File 8--E-Mail Female for a Day
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File 9--Updated Info on HOPE (FIrst US Hacker Congress) (REMINDER)
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File 10--PSI and Canter & Siegel Negotiate - no spamming
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 23:51:50 -0500 (CDT)
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From: David Smith <bladex@BGA.COM>
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Subject: File 1--NEWS: Corporate losses due to Intrntlt copyright piracy (fwd)
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--fwd--
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Date--Wed, 22 Jun 1994 09:17:35 -0400
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From--Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
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Subject--NEWS--Corporate losses due to international copyright piracy
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The International Intellectual Property Alliance recently released some
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copyright piracy losses for US companies. Here are part of their figures.
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ESTIMATED 1993 TRADE LOSSES DUE TO PIRACY
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(US $ millions)
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MOTION RECORDS COMPUTER
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COUNTRY PICTURES & MUSIC PROGRAMS BOOKS TOTAL
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China 50 345 322 110 827
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India 40 45 81 25 191
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Japan 95 n.a. 854 3 952
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South Korea 20 20 371 12 423
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Thailand 20 12 98 25 155
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Indonesia 45 12 95 40 192
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Taiwan 26 6 106 12 150
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Philippines 23 15 n.a. 70 108
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Greg Aharonian
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Internet Patent News Service
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(for subscription info, send 'help' to patents@world.std.com)
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(for prior art search services info, send 'prior' to patents@world.std.com)
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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 19:47:49 -0500
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From: sj@INDIAL1.IO.COM(Steve Jackson)
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Subject: File 2--Response to Loka Inst. NII views (CuD 6.50)
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In #6.50, Richard Sclove and Jeffrey Scheuer of the "Loka Institute"
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wrote, after several pages of moaning about how the awful highways
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had destroyed America's cities and now the information highway would
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finish the job and blah blah blah:
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> o _No Innovation Without Evaluation_: To help reduce adverse
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>social impact, the federal government should mandate evaluated social
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>trials of alternative electronic services. Analogous to environmental
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>impact statements, these trials should precede full-scale deployment
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>of any major components of new information infrastructures.
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Rich. The "environmental impact statement" is a joke, a bureaucratic
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maneuver, an expensive time-waster. We need more of these?
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By the time our pork-glutted feds could pass the enabling legislation to
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form the committee to name the study group to design those "trials,"
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the whole infrastructure will have been deployed . . . somewhere else.
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Your whole metaphor is flawed. You start by pointing out problems caused
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by the massive, pork-barrel, FEDERAL Interstate Highway project . . .
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and from that, you argue that the infobahn should be federally taxed
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and controlled? "It didn't work last time, so let's do it again." Huh?
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> o _No Innovation Without Regulation_: We should conserve
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>cultural space for face-to-face social engagement, traditional forms
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>of community life, off-screen leisure activities and time spent in
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>nature. How about a modest tax on electronic home shopping and
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>consumer services, rebating the revenue to support compensatory, local
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>community-building initiatives?
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Right. More taxes. And what wise, caring group will decide
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which "social," "traditional," and "leisure" activities get the pork?
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The Feds, of course. Congress. Oh, I quiver with anticipation.
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> Data highway enthusiasts may see such measures as wasteful
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>obstructions of market forces. But what entrepreneurs call red tape
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>is really democracy in action.
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No. What entrepreneurs call "red tape" is red tape. What the Lokoids
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call "democracy in action" is officious, statist paternalism.
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Get your hands the hell out of my pockets, and get your red tape the
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hell off of my infobahn. You can call yourselves "liberal" and
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"democratic," but you're just another tentacle of the federal octopus.
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If you can't confiscate our computers, maybe you can just tax, study
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and regulate them right out of existence . . . is that it?
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I hate to disappoint the Loka gentlemen, but the market is already at
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work, and the market is worldwide. If you really want universal access
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to the information highway, you'll go find some other Cause and let
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the entrepreneurs keep on . . . until it's so cheap that everybody has
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it, and so simple that everybody can understand it . . . and keep
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your government out of our faces.
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 94 10:19:13 BST
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From: troddis@ACORN.CO.UK(Timothy Roddis)
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Subject: File 3--Response to "Egalitarianism as Irrational" (CuD 5.51)
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In response to File 1 in CU-Digest 6.51.
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> I would like to take this opportunity to state that I
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> believe egalitarianism, in regard to information
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> technology as elsewhere, is an irrational, immoral, and
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> dangerous ideal.
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Sorry, are you playing devil's advocate or am I really missing a
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really fundamental point, such as, perhaps, an argument to back up
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this belief? Let us look at the above statement.
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Apparently equal access to IT is an irrational ideal. It could be
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argued, I suppose, that since it can't happen it's irrational to
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expect it to happen. Surely though, having an unattainable ideal is
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not inherently irrational. So what makes it an irrational ideal?
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Now the next point concerns that most subjective of all things -
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morality. A fair system in which everyone has equal say and equal
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influence is, apparently, immoral. Presumably then, morally speaking,
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we should remove certain people's right to 'speech'. If we don't feel
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too strongly about what they 'say' on the internet or just to be kind,
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we might merely restrict some of them. This does, to me, seem to be
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analogous to removing some people's right to post letters or
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disallowing them from using the 'phone. In my country (Britain) people
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who are supposedly associated with Irish terrorists, such as, for
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instance, the entirity of the (legitimate) Sinn Fein political party
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are not allowed to have their voice on TV. These are the people, then
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who's connection to the internet should be somehow reduced. Really?
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Are you sure? You'd better be.
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The final point was dangerous. Obviously, if we allow people that
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know how to make bombs to post to the net, we'd be endagering people's
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lives. Better stop the military posting then.
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I can understand your point on one level only. There are capitalist
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pressures which will dictate people's usage. However, I think
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people's right to the internet should be guaranteed. It may just be,
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that as with 'phones and mail, some people can not afford to use them
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as much as others. In my opinion, that is unfair, but unavoidable in a
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free market oriented culture.
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From: cccf@ALTERN.COM(cccf)
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Subject: File 4--Internet Access in France--State of the Art
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 7:46:56 GMT
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INTERNET IN FRANCE
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For a long time, I dream to have an Internet address. For an US guy,
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it's easy to answer to this request. For me, France-born teenager, I
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must have a friend that give me an email box on the computer of a rich
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university. At this time, a lot of controls stop like a solution.
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The second solution is to access via my free videotex terminal called
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Minitel on a gatheway connected to an UUCP or Internet node. The cost
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is between FF 1.25 (for 3615 Internet) and FF 9.46 (for 3619 USnet)
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pro minute... but for email and news only. Some videotex services
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don't like ftpmail requests or more than 520-caracters messages (like
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3617 Email) and refuse sending my mails :-8
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The third solution is to buy a commercial access: MCIMail have an
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"experimental connexion with Internet" at this time, AT&T give you an
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address in Netherlands and CompuServe ask for my... parent's
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MasterCard number :-]
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Some good associations (like French Data Network, Fnet or Frmug) send
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me a little package with a good service, but the guys that don't live
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in Paris paid a lot of money for an incredible expensive phone call
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(FF 0.73 all 12 seconds) to
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access to the service.
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The only solution is 3619 USnet (a joke developed by Intel-
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matique, a subsidiary of France Telecom that give you an
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user-id on Delphi domain), the really crazy Audiotel service called FranceNet
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(that stop the service all 20 minutes),
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the last baby born today and called World-net or, at least,
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the uncredible 3619 Inet that give you an email box on
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"on101"-domain in the USA.
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Internet is a real *problem* at this time in France, not a
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solution. This message cost me FF 25.00 to be send to you.
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A little expensive, no?
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Listing of (Un-)useful Addresses
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Altern (3616)
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Valentin Lacambre, 29 rue de Cotte, 75012 Paris
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Tel.: (1) 42 79 81 38
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Email: sysop@altern.com
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Calvacom (RCI-Calvacom)
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175 rue J.-J. Rousseau, 92138 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex
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Tel.: (1) 41 08 11 00, Fax: (1) 41 08 11 99
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Email: rci1@calvacom.fr
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CompuServe
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Centre Atria, Rueil 2000, 92566 Rueil Malmat, 92410 Ville d'Avray
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Tel.: (1) 47 50 62 48, Fax: (1) 47 50 62 93
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Email: sales@teaser.com
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EUnet France SA
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52 av. de la Grande Armee, 75017 Paris
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Tel.: (1) 53 81 60 60, Fax: (1) 45 74 52 79
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Acc}s Utopia: (1) 39 63 50 22 ou NUA 17827026961
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Email: contactne@rain.fr
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USNet (3619)
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Intelmatique SA, 16-18 rue du Dome, 92300 Boulogne-
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Billancourt
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Tel.: (1) 47 61 47 61, Fax: (1) 46 21 22 40
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Email: jperd@delphi.com
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World-NET
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SCT, 20 av. Daguerre, 77500 Chelles
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Tel.: (1) 60 20 85 14, 3617 SCT, Fax: (1) 64 21 65 35
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Email: info@World-net.sct.fr
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Jean-Bernard Condat, General Secretary hc, Chaos Computer Club France
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Internet: condat@altern.com
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 10:43:25 -0700
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From: email list server <listserv@SNYSIDE.SUNNYSIDE.COM>
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Subject: File 5--CPSR supports Ethics Campaign
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For immediate release
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20 June 1994
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CPSR Lends Support to
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National Computer Ethics and Responsibility Campaign
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In a step toward recognizing and encouraging the responsible use of
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computing, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) today
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announced its support for the National Computer Ethics and
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Responsibility Campaign (NCERC). The purpose of NCERC is to promote
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discussion and dissemination of information on computer ethics and
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related issues.
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In endorsing NCERC, CPSR joins a diverse group of supporters and
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affiliates, including the Computer Ethics Institute, the Electronic
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Messaging Association, Monsanto, Merrill Lynch, and others, in
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expressing the need to raise awareness of the many consequences of
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increased computer use.
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CPSR and NCERC share a common interest in the ethical use of information
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technology. Moreover, we believe that by providing the necessary tools
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and resources, NCERC will enable individuals and organizations to make
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intelligent, informed choices on how best to develop, manage, and
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utilize the rapidly expanding information resources available through
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electronic networks.
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For more information, contact:
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Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
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P.O. Box 717
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Palo Alto, CA 94302-0717
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Tel: (415) 322-3778
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Email: cpsr@cpsr.org
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Computer Ethics and Responsibilities Campaign
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18054 Bluesail Drive
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Los Angeles, CA 90272-2901
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Tel: (310) 478-6599
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Fax: (310) 478-3299
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Email: 6300836@mcimail.com
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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 22:20:30 -0700
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From: email list server <listserv@SNYSIDE.SUNNYSIDE.COM>
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Subject: File 6--Groups Hail New Bill For Public Space on NII
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This is a press release put out by People for the American Way and the
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Media Access Project last week. Additional information, including a copy
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of the legislation, will be put online shortly.
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June 15, 1994
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PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS HAIL INTRODUCTION OF BILL TO
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PROVIDE "PUBLIC LANE" ON THE INFORMATION "SUPERHIGHWAY"
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PEOPLE FOR CALLS BILL "VITAL" TO
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DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-TECH DEMOCRACY
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MEDIA ACCESS PROJECT SAYS NON-PROFITS NEED
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TO GET ON NOW, NOT IN FIVE OR TEN YEARS
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Public interest groups expressed enthusiastic support for S. 2195,
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legislation introduced today by Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) to ensure
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that there will be space on the "information superhighway" for schools,
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libraries, public broadcasters, and non-profit organizations which
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promote local artistic, political and social speech.
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Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman Inouye's bill guarantees
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access on the "superhighway" for non-commercial and governmental uses.
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"Without this protection, we may not get anything besides home shopping
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and movies on demand," said Leslie Harris, Director of Public Policy for
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the People For the American Way Action Fund (PFAWAF). "Senator Inouye's
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bill creates an electronic `public square' where diverse political,
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artistic and cultural expression can flourish. It is vital to ensuring
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that the interests of the public are not left behind on the information
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`superhighway.'"
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Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Executive Director of the Media Access
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Project (MAP), underscored the short-term impact of Senator Inouye's
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proposal. "We hope -- and expect -- that some day the new technologies
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will provide so much capacity at such low prices that there will be no
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need to reserve space for public use. The bill directs the Federal
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Communications Commission to phase out the `public right of way' if and
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when that happens." But, he added, "It is critical that local government
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and non-profit groups have access to the new technologies right away.
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We need to begin using the technologies as they evolve; it will be too
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late to do this five or ten years from now."
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Potential uses of this capacity are innumerable, according to PFAWAF
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and MAP. Among them are distance learning (in which master teachers can
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work with students locally and nationwide) and interactive information
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services such as the video health referral system established by the
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Chicago Chapter of the Black Nurses Association. Similarly, performing
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arts groups could distribute their works on these systems using an
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upgraded version of the currently operative Arts Wire. PFAWAF and MAP
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are especially enthusiastic about the Los Angeles-based Democracy Network,
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an on-line interactive multimedia political communication prototype which
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could help reduce the cost of running for public office by creating
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high-tech voter information services, in which all qualified candidates
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could respond to citizen inquiries, "post" biographical information,
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video clips of their speeches and position statements, and the public
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can participate on video bulletin and issue boards.
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People For the American Way Action Fund is a 300,000-member
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nonpartisan constitutional liberties organization.
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Media Access Project is a twenty-one year old non-profit public
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interest telecommunications law firm which seeks to promote the
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public's First Amendment rights to speak and be heard.
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As Senator Inouye stated when introducing the bill, "nearly 100
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educational, public broadcasting, library, civil rights, labor, local
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government, and disability rights organizations and others have expressed
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their support for the principles outlined in this legislation."
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This coalition is asking organizations and individuals to write
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the Senate in support of S. 2195. Sample letters to Senator Inouye,
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Senator Hollings, and your individual Senators will also put placed online
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shortly.
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Anthony E. Wrightcme@access.digex.net
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Coordinator, Future of Media ProjectCenter for Media Education
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:19:17 -0700
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From: jet@NAS.NASA.GOV(J. Eric Townsend)
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Subject: File 7--A Comment on the Tandy employee/no bbs piece
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> Should your employer prohibit you from operating a BBS, on
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> your own equipment, at your own expense, on your own time
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> with the threat of being fired if you do? It has happened!
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> Tandy/Radio Shack did it to one of their employees. This is
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> a press release of the incident. Everyone should read this!
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I am about to switch jobs. My current job 'allows' me to conduct any
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business I wish on my own time, as long as it doesn't *COMPETE* with
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any current or near-future business plans.
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My new job, however, has a strongly worded statement in the "Employee
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Guidelines" that says (HIGHLY paraphrased and condensed):
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'We are a high-performance, high-output team. Because we demand the
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most possible from our employees, we ask that you engage in no other
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business activities than what is part of your job. If you want more
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money, or to do something different, come ask us -- we've got plenty
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of work to go around.'
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Does Radio Shack have any such clauses in their working agreement?
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Also, is it possible that this is a coverup for an employee being
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fired for other reasons? I've worked at more than one place where it
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was easier to fire an employee over some minor infraction of the rules
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than for the 'real' reason (incompetence, theft, fraud).
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:24:50 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Zodiac <zodiac@IO.ORG>
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Subject: File 8--E-Mail Female for a Day
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================================================================
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eye WEEKLY February 17 1994
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Toronto's arts newspaper ...free every Thursday
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===============================================================
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E-MAIL FEMALE FOR A DAY
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by
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K.K.Campbell
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To get a glimpse of how the other-sex lives, people have tried pop
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psychology, role-playing, cross-dressing, even sex-change operations.
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Such inefficiency.
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Me? I just had to use a computer.
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Some years ago, I was researching a story about "computer-chat" systems
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-- better known as bulletin board systems, or just BBSs for short. By
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hooking your dusty home computer to your telephone by a a modem, then
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dialing certain phone numbers, you can talk to complete strangers.
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You'll see their typing on your monitor. And they see yours.
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Anyway, in this research I noticed, to my chagrin, that there are many
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BBSs females can call free, which males have to pay to use. Since
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writing makes one just enough money to starve by degrees, a friend,
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Elisa, graciously let me use her account. A female account. I could
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call free.
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The only condition she set was that I tell no one I wasn't her. If the
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person who ran the BBS found out she was letting a male use her account,
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she would get deleted.
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Effectively, by using her account, I was transformed from a 6'4" male
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into a 5'1" female -- whose hobbies, as stated in the little
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biographical profile she'd written for others to read, included: "gazing
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at the stars with a special someone."
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So call I did.
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And WHAM! It starts almost immediately: "chat requests" from males.
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Little notes on my screen saying -- "So-and-so is requesting you for a
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private chat." I can only imagine what they want, so pay no attention
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and go about trying to learn my way around the system. But this one guy
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named Jeff is absolutely relentless.
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I couldn't tell him I wasn't Elisa (I promised, I promised). I just did
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my best to ignore him. He'd surely quit -- right? Men are polite --
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right?
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After chat request number 31, Jeff switchs tactics and starts sending me
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little notes. Messages only I can see.
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The first message reads: "Are you new here?"
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A variation on the timeless, "Come here often?", I suppose.
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"Who _is_ this guy?" I ask aloud. I go to the area where all the little
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biography are stored and look up Jeff's profile. It scrolls onto my
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monitor:
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Description: 30-years-old, 5'9", 200 lbs, with very short, black hair.
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Hobbies: Sex, stereos, electronics, sex, making love to
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beautiful women.
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Favorite movies: All, especially sex movies!
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Sports: Sex. Sex.
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Favorite Reading: Playboy.
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(There was other stuff about him being a computer programmer.)
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I stare at the screen, truly awestruck, flooded with flashbacks of grade
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school and pictures of naked women carved into desktops with ball-point
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pens.
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Meanwhile, Jeff's personal message barrage keeps pounding away at my
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bunker walls.
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"Need some help?"
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"Elisa your real name?"
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"Please chat - something important to say!!!!"
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It begins to dawn on me that Jeff is simply not going to leave me alone.
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"Stop being a weenie, Jeff," I growl at the terminal. More than just
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annoy, he's really beginning to piss me off. He is _only_ acting this
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way because he thinks I'm female. If there was a "male" designation on
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the screen beside my name, Jeff would not bothered me after the second
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ignore, if he would have noticed me at all.
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A new message beeps onto the screen:
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"Make love!"
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At this, I blink it in disbelief. What, precisely, is ol' Jeff trying
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to say, here? Is this some general statement on his life philosophy...
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or does Jeff imagine he is now coming in for the seductive kill?
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Before I can decide, yet another message appears:
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"xxx-4238."
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His phone number. He is giving me his phone number. I have not once
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even acknowledged his existence on Planet Earth... and he is giving me
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his phone number.
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That did it!
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You want to chat so bad, okay, pal, I'll chat. Even if I have to
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pretend to be a 5'1" female, fine, I'll be a 5'1" female and tell him
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what a defective representative of the male species he is.
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I figure out how to accept chat requests, and sit, glowering at the
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screen, waiting, waiting. Sure enough, a chat request comes in and I'm
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whisked off to personal chat. One on one.
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I watch him type that first sentence, ready to DefCon5 this dink's
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ego... when the twisted smile is wiped from my face.
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_It isn't Jeff!_
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This is some other guy named Albert, whom I have never heard of before.
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Someone _else_ asked me to chat! My mind raced.
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It was then I realized, in horror, I didn't know how to _leave_ personal
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chat.
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"Um, hi," I type, trying to extricate myself. "I didn't mean to chat
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with you. I think I hit the wrong key by mistake. I'm new at this BBS.
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How do I leave chat?"
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Bad move. Delighted at my apparent stupidity, Albert decides to take me
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under his protective wing. He isn't going to take the polite brush-off.
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Instead, he starts heaping doting advice and condescending pep talks
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upon me -- "If you have any problems, come to me first", "Beware, some
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of these guys are perverts", "You are as good as anyone here, just
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remember that!" I am unsure if Albert thinks me an idiot or a turn-on...
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or both.
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But Albert is the least of my troubles. My going into chat with a male
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is apparently a signal for every male online to chat-request me. "Tony"
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and "Jim" have started hitting me up. I desperately want to leave chat,
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but Albert isn't coughing up the info too fast. And Jeff! Poor Jeff,
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seeing me chatting with Albert -- another man! -- is apparently
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undergoing some sort of mental event. His messages pour in like mortar
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fire. They are capped finally with:
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"Bitch! I asked you first!!!"
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_Bitch?_ What the...?! I reach over and just shut the whole damn
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modem/computer off. Bye, boys. Go play with someone else.
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I flop back in my chair, exasperated. Jesus. I really felt like
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breaking something. Like Jeff's head maybe. But there had been nothing
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I could I do. Except switch the machine off.
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Makes you wonder what switches women use to get away from these kind of
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guys in real life. Hopefully it involves hollow-point bullets.
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============================================================
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Retransmit freely in cyberspace Author holds standard copyright
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Full issue of eye available in archive ==> gopher.io.org or ftp.io.org
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eye@io.org "Break the Gutenberg Lock..." 416-971-8421
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------------------------------
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 19:05:18 -0700
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From: Emmanuel Goldstein <emmanuel@WELL.SF.CA.US>
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Subject: File 9--Updated Info on HOPE (FIrst US Hacker Congress) (REMINDER)
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HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH
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The First U.S. Hacker Congress
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Yes, it's finally happening. A hacker party unlike anything ever seen
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|
before in this country. Come help us celebrate ten years of existence
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and meet some really interesting and unusual people in the process.
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We've rented out the entire top floor of a midtown New York hotel,
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consisting of several gigantic ballrooms. The conference will run
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|
around the clock all weekend long.
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SPEAKERS AND SEMINARS: Will there be famous people and celebrity
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|
hackers? Of course, but the real stars of this convention will be
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the hundreds of hackers and technologically inclined people journeying
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|
from around the globe to share information and get new ideas.
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|
That is the real reason to show up. Seminars include:
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social engineering, cellular phone cloning, cable TV security,
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stealth technology and surveillance, lockpicking, boxing of all sorts,
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|
legal issues, credit cards, encryption, the history of 2600,
|
|
password sniffing, viruses, scanner tricks, and many more in the
|
|
planning stages. Meet people from the Chaos Computer Club, Hack-Tic,
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Phrack, and all sorts of other k-rad groups.
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THE NETWORK: Bring a computer with you and you can tie into the huge
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Ethernet we'll be running around the clock. Show off your system and
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explore someone else's (with their permission, of course). We will
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have a reliable link to the Internet in addition. Finally, everyone
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attending will get an account on our hope.net machine. We encourage
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you to try and hack root. We will be giving away some valuable prizes
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to the successful penetrators, including the keys to a 1994 Corvette.
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(We have no idea where the car is, but the keys are a real
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conversation piece.) Remember, this is only what is currently planned.
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Every week, something new is being added so don't be surprised to find
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even more hacker toys on display. We will have guarded storage areas
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if you don't want to leave your equipment unattended.
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VIDEOS: We will have a brand new film on hackers called
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"Unauthorized Access", a documentary that tells the story from
|
|
our side and captures the hacker world from Hamburg to Los Angeles
|
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and virtually everywhere in between. In addition, we'll have
|
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numerous foreign and domestic hacker bits, documentaries,
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news stories, amateur videos, and security propaganda. There
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|
has been a lot of footage captured over the years - this will
|
|
be a great opportunity to see it all. We will also have one
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|
hell of an audio collection, including prank calls that put
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|
The Jerky Boys to shame, voice mail hacks, and even confessions
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|
by federal informants! It's not too late to contribute material!
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WHERE/WHEN: It all happens Saturday, August 13th and Sunday,
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August 14th at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City
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(Seventh Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd Streets, right across
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the street from Penn Station). If you intend to be part of
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the network, you can start setting up Friday night.
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The conference officially begins at noon on Saturday and will
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run well into Sunday night.
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ACCOMMODATIONS: New York City has numerous cheap places to stay.
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Check the update sites below for more details as they come in.
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If you decide to stay in the hotel, there is a special discounted
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rate if you mention the HOPE Conference. $99 is their base rate
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(four can fit in one of these rooms, especially if sleeping bags
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are involved), significantly larger rooms are only about $10 more.
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Mini-suites are great for between six and ten people - total cost
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for HOPE people is $160. If you work with others, you can easily
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get a room in the hotel for between $16 and $50.
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The Hotel Pennsylvania can be reached at (212) PEnnsylvania 6-5000
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(neat, huh?). Rooms must be registered by 7/23/94 to get the
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special rate.
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TRAVEL: There are many cheap ways to get to New York City in August
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but you may want to start looking now, especially if you're coming
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from overseas. Travel agencies will help you for free. Also look in
|
|
various magazines like Time Out, the Village Voice, local alternative
|
|
weeklies, and travel sections of newspapers. Buses, trains, and
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carpools are great alternatives to domestic flights. Keep in touch
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|
with the update sites for more information as it comes in.
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WANTED: Uncommon people, good music (CD's or cassettes), creative
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technology. To leave us information or to volunteer to help out,
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call us at (516) 751-2600 or send us email on the Internet at:
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2600@hope.net.
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VOICE BBS: (516) 473-2626
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INTERNET:
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info@hope.net - for the latest conference information
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travel@hope.net - cheap fares and advisories
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tech@hope.net - technical questions and suggestions
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speakers@hope.net - for anyone interested in speaking at the
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|
conference
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vol@hope.net - for people who want to volunteer
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USENET NEWSGROUPS:
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alt.2600 - general hacker discussion
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alt.2600.hope.announce - the latest announcements
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alt.2600.hope.d - discussion on the conference
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alt.2600.hope.tech - technical setup discussion
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REGISTRATION: Admission to the conference is $20 for the entire weekend
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if you preregister, $25 at the door, regardless of whether you stay for
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two days or five minutes. To preregister, fill out this form, enclose $20,
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and mail to: 2600 HOPE Conference, PO Box 848, Middle Island, NY 11953.
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Preregistration must be postmarked by 7/31/94. This information is only
|
|
for the purposes of preregistration and will be kept confidential. Once
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you arrive, you can select any name or handle you want for your badge.
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NAME: _____________________________________________________________________
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ADDRESS: __________________________________________________________________
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CITY, STATE, ZIP, COUNTRY: ________________________________________________
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PHONE (optional): ________________ email (optional): ______________________
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|
IMPORTANT: If you're interested in participating in other ways or
|
|
volunteering assistance, please give details on the reverse side.
|
|
So we can have a better idea of how big the network will be, please
|
|
let us know what, if any, computer equipment you plan on bringing and
|
|
whether or not you'll need an Ethernet card. Use the space on the back
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|
and attach additional sheets if necessary.
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 12:42:41 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@EFF.ORG>
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Subject: File 10--PSI and Canter & Siegel Negotiate - no spamming
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[This is just an informational forward, and is not an EFF document, nor
|
|
does it reflect official EFF positions or statements - mech@eff.org]
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Subject--PressRelease - PSI And Canter & Siegel Neogiate Agreement On Future..
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Date--Thu, 23 Jun 1994 18:19:47 -0400
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From--"Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@us.psi.com
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I'm sure this will provide for stimulating discussion...
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Marty
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-------
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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PSI AND CANTER & SIEGEL NEGOTIATE AGREEMENT ON FUTURE INTERNET ACCESS
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June 23, 1994 - Herndon, VA - Performance Systems International, Inc.
|
|
(PSI), of Herndon Virginia, which provides Internet connection services
|
|
to more people and organizations than all other providers, today disclosed
|
|
that an interim agreement had been reached with Canter & Siegel (C&S), of
|
|
Phoenix, Arizona regarding the controversial C&S advertising over the
|
|
Internet and USENET.
|
|
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|
Both firms concur that the continuing orderly evolution of the commercial
|
|
Internet must be preserved, and to that end, Canter & Siegel and PSI have
|
|
agreed to the following:
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a) C&S will refrain from mass electronic postings of any unsolicited,
|
|
non-contextual, non-topic advertisements to the USENET discussion group
|
|
bulletin board system;
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b) C&S will refrain from mass postings of any unsolicited, non-contextual,
|
|
non-topic advertisements using electronic mail or other TCP/IP Internet
|
|
applications.
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|
The worldwide Internet and USENET response to Canter & Siegel's activities
|
|
have been very strong. Many of the actions have been particularly virulent,
|
|
including the sending of "mail bombs". PSI has had first hand experience
|
|
where the actions in response to C&S were damaging to third parties. PSI
|
|
took a number of steps to remove these damaging situations as they occurred.
|
|
While the actions of C&S have been considered by many to be completely
|
|
inappropriate, the same is now being said about the actions in response to
|
|
C&S. Clearly, the ENTIRE situation needs to be amended and will take many
|
|
months, if not years, to settle out.
|
|
|
|
Better education will be key to Internet evolution with books like "NET
|
|
Etiquette" and the Internet Business Association (IBA) of Washington, DC
|
|
facilitating those changes. In addition, mediation and discussion instead
|
|
of unilateral confrontation, threats, and disconnection will be required
|
|
to develop the general framework for operating on the Internet as it continues
|
|
to evolve. Several other application-oriented Internet service providers
|
|
have taken this approach successfully with C&S and others in parallel with PSI.
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###
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PSI's headquarters are located at 510 Huntmar Park Drive, Herndon, VA 22070.
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Canter & Siegel is located at 3333 East Camelback Road, Suite 250,
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Phoenix, AZ 85260.
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End of Computer Underground Digest #6.57
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