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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 20:49:50 PST
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Reply-To: <cocot@osc.versant.com>
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Message-ID: <surfpunk-0021@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal>
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From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Captain COCOT)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0021] CPSR: Call for Comments About Computing and the Future
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Keywords: surfpunk, CPSR, public policy, 21st Century Project
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________________________________________________________________________
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________________________________________________________________________
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From: Gary Chapman <chapman%silver.lcs.mit.edu@gwuvm.gwu.edu>
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Subject: Call for Comments About Computing and the Future
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To: Multiple recipients of list CPSR <CPSR@GWUVM.BITNET>
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PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS WHEREVER YOU FEEL IT IS APPROPRIATE
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BUT ONLY WHERE YOU FEEL IT IS APPROPRIATE
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AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT COMPUTING IN THE FUTURE
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This is Gary Chapman, director of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, office
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of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. I edit The CPSR
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Newsletter, a quarterly publication that goes to all CPSR members and
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about 400 other people, including a lot of policymakers, members of
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Congress, administration officials, etc.
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We're going to try something unusual for the next CPSR Newsletter, and
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I'm putting out a call for help. We're going to publish a special issue
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on "What the Clinton Administration Can Do For The Computing Profession
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and the Public." I'm sending out this message to ask people to send me
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SHORT contributions to this issue, just brief comments about what the
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new administration can do to help support computing in the United
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States, or perhaps the world.
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Here are a few basic guidelines for these submissions:
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1. SHORT MEANS SHORT -- In order to publish as many of these as we can,
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we need to keep each contribution to about 100-150 words, max, one or
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two paragraphs. In fact, anything longer will probably be eliminated
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out of fairness to others.
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2. YOU MUST IDENTIFY YOURSELF -- Again, briefly, with just your name
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and one line that says something about you, such as Joe Blow or Sally
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Smith, Programmer, BillyBob Corporation, or Centerville, Ohio, or
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something like that, whatever you prefer.
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3. ADDRESS ISSUES OF PUBLIC POLICY -- In order to make these
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contributions relevant to the Clinton administration, they should
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concern issues about which government can or should do something, or
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stop doing, whatever. These include major issues such as privacy,
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access to information, computer networks like the Internet or NREN, R&D
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priorities, equitable access to computers, intellectual property,
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defense policy, risks to the public, etc. We're not really interested
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in contributions that are self-serving, parochial, excessively arcane or
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trivial, belligerently and unconstructively critical, and so on. We
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will favor messages that discuss the intersection of computing and major
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issues of concern to the public at large.
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4. PLEASE INCLUDE A WORKABLE E-MAIL ADDRESS -- In case I have to get
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back to you about the text. We won't publish e-mail addresses, I
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promise.
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5. GET ALL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ME BY JANUARY 15, 1993. My e-mail address
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is chapman@silver.lcs.mit.edu.
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This is not limited to people in the United States, although overseas
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contributors will have to make a case for what the Clinton
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administration should do to help international computing -- the focus
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will be on U.S. government policy.
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We're going to try and get this issue into the hands of the key players
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on computing and high tech policy in the new administration. For the
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most part we already know who those people are, and we're talking to
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them about the issues that CPSR is working on. This newsletter will
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give them a good impression, we hope, of the concerns of the computing
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profession and people who use computer networks. Consider this an
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opportunity for a kind of "hard copy" town hall.
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Thanks for your help! Get those messages coming!
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Gary Chapman
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Coordinator
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The 21st Century Project
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Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
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Cambridge, MA
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chapman@silver.lcs.mit.edu
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. Once or twice is good for your soul.
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