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     THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN UNDERGROUND COMPUTING - Volume 1, Issue 6



                          TABLE OF CONTENTS



 Cyberdoggles And Virtual Pork                              Carl Guderian

 EFF Summary Of The Edwards/Leahy Digital Telephony Bill    Stanton McCandlish

 Zine FAQ                                                   Jerod Pore

 Legion Of Doom T-Shirts Ad                                 Chris Goggans

 A Point And Click Society                                  Scott Davis

 Keynote Address: Crypto Conference                         Bruce Sterling

 Jackboots On The Infobahn                                  John Perry Barlow

 Notes From Cyberspace, Volume 3                            Readers

 Pornography Fouls Internet                                 Paul Pihichyn

 Security / Coast FTP                                       Unknown

 On the Subject of CyberCulture                             George Phillips

 A Comment On Clipper                                       Azrael

 Sex, The Internet And The Idiots                           K.K. Campbell

 NBC's Anti-Net Campaign                                    Alaric

 The Miami Device Project                                   Marty Cyber

 Cybersell                                                  Michael Ege

 Some Info On Green Card Spam                               Unknown

 Cable Resources On The Net                                 John Higgins

 IDS Announces New Rochelle, New York POP (AC 914)          green@ids.net

 The Media List                                             Adam M. Gaffin

 A TeleStrategies Event/Commercial Internet eXchange        Unknown

 Scream Of Consciousness From WIRED 1.1                     Stewart Brand

 Digital Cash Mini-FAQ For The Layman                       Jim Miller

 Patent Searching Email Server Now Open                     Gregory Aharonian

 Five "Hackers" Indicted for Credit Card/Computer Fraud     CUD/AP Wire

 Clipper T-Shirts                                           Norman Harman

 Cybernews Debuts                                           Patrick Grote

 PC Magazine Declares The PIPELINE Best Internet Service    James Gleick

 Scout Report Subscriptions Exceed 10,000                   Internic

 The Future Of The Net Is At Hand                           James Parry

 Galactic Guide FAQ                                         Steve Baker

 Employment Background Checks                               Agre/Harbs



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  The Computer Is Your Friend         -Unknown

  Send Money, Guns, And Lawyers       -H. S. Thompson



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       CYBERDOGGLES AND VIRTUAL PORK - A SCENARIO FOR INTERNET II



 By Carl Guderian <bjacques@usis.com>



 As one battle gets underway another is joined. While the EFF and others

 work to defend the noisy, colorful anarchy of the Net from the net.cops,

 the latter have begun gearing up for the endgame. If it's true that the

 electronic frontier is getting crowded while its newer colonists consider

 it too bare, then another system will be needed in a few years. That's the

 virtual Valley of Megiddo, the site of the (next) Final Battle between the

 techno-romantics and the corporate greyfaces. Internet II, or whatever

 they'll call it, is now only a vague idea in the minds of a few bureaucrats

 and infotainment industry execs, but it'll wind up a Mall of America,

 Panopticon, City of Quartz, or some other negative social metaphor (Brazil?).

 The first Internet grew up free because it was defined wholly by the users.

 Internet II, by contrast, will be a hybrid of corporate and government

 visions, combining the worst of both in a kind of Mendelian genetic

 distribution in which all offspring are defective. To the government it's

 a tax base and surveillance network; to industry it's a direct channel

 to a self-selecting, well-heeled market. To users the Internet is a

 community for which they've worked too hard to let it be taken away without

 a fight.



 The most obvious model for the Internet II standard is the U.S., or any

 other, civilian space program. It is about nothing so much as itself. The

 aerospace companies that are today inseparable from national space

 establishments make rockets or communications satellites. Like the designers

 of Internet II, they are concerned with delivering product (audiences) to

 the customers (advertisers). People generally support the space program

 because they hope it will open up space travel to everybody, from

 interplanetary honeymooners to lunar Libertarians (Jetsonian democracy!).

 Likewise, the Internet is popular because it's a vehicle for forming

 communities and getting free stuff. But Internet II will be about bandwidth,

 markets and security. The last item is emphasized because such a huge

 investment must be protected somehow, from the users of course. Whatever

 vision there might have been will be refocused instead on infrastructure.

 Call it information superhighway hypnosis, a trail of yellow stripes

 stretching to the horizon. Truly a vision to stir the soul.



 The pork barrel politics that characterize all big government projects will

 find a new arena on Internet II. The government can no longer pay for

 megaprojects like Internet II, but it can grant electronic Letters of

 Marque for companies to plunder the virtual seas under the federal colors.

 Obviously, the company or consortium that gets to write the new, none-dare-

 call-it-proprietary Internet protocols will have a leg up on competitors,

 sorta like the advantage Microsoft officially doesn't have over other

 developers for Windows.  In the current and upcoming Congressional funding

 battles, watch for posturing by lawmakers from whatever states the

 infotainment conglomerates call their nominal homes (Austin? Provo? Los

 Gatos?).



 The relatively meager funding doled out by the government will become an

 instrument of control, and privacy and free expression on Internet II will

 be the first to go. While Reagan preached getting the government off the

 backs of the people, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth (Mrs. Bob) Dole

 ordered states to raise drinking ages and enforce seat-belt laws or else

 lose federal funding for highway development. The states meekly complied.

 Would-be government contractors will be told, adopt a Clipper-like standard

 or don't bother to apply. Infotainment industry execs will be grilled by

 Congress for allowing "pone" on the net. Subsequently, said execs will

 promise to read private e-mail and censor discussions in exchange for easy

 passage of whatever bill they're promoting at the time. In 1985, the Parents

 Music Resource Center, led by Tipper (Mrs. Albert) Gore and financed by the

 likes of Mike Love of the Beach Boys, instigated Senatorial hearings on

 raunchy rock lyrics. Recording studio heads and distributors agreed to

 label and categorize "offensive" music in hopes Congress would tax blank

 tapes to offset revenue losses the industry attributed to home taping.

 Happily, the bill died and the hearings degenerated into a circus. But

 community standards on Internet II may be those of Memphis, Tennessee, if a

 recent court decision stands, and the only cyber-sex will be the user

 squealing like a pig for multimedia producers, petty bureaucrats, and self-

 appointed moral watchdogs. Government attempts to rein in the Internet

 community will continue no matter which party is in power. Repression smells

 the same whether it's for "national security," "community standards,"

 or raising PG kids in an X-rated world.



 Corporate plans for Internet II are even less palatable. The future dream

 is a shopping scheme, a Third Mall from the Sun. This corporate paradigm

 will kill the Internet as surely as will government interference and turn

 it into ²an Internet of shopkeepers. In a shopping mall the offerings are

 calculated to offend no one, so they please no one. Though a mall could, in

 theory, serve diverse interests, in reality it does not. Individual tastes

 being what they are, a customer could be offended by what it finds upon

 wandering into the wrong shop, and may leave the mall without buying

 anything. As a result, the mall loses the customer to a rival mall. To avoid

 this risk, the mall operator rents to shops with watered down selections,

 nothing too daring. Similarly, in a corporate online service, the range of

 allowable discussion topics is kept small to prevent users from who access

 the wrong discussion groups. Though itÿs possible to restrict access to the

 forum without censoring discussion within it, most services take the lazy way

 out and forbid them altogether, in case a user objects to their very

 existence. So much for open discussion on Internet II.



 The corporate vision accommodates shopkeepers who hate customers who browse

 but don't buy. Customers can turn a mall into a kind of public space for the

 price of a few sodas and pizza slices. Americans online on Internet II,

 however, will have to pay by the hour just to hang around. The ticking clock

 will prompt them to hurry up and pay for something to download. After being

 on the clock at work, consumers will get to log on and shop on the clock.

 Constant reminders of a rising bill will discourage idle chatting on the

 newsgroups, further restricting discussion on Internet II.



 Security will become an issue as cyberspace, once considered a kind of

 public space, becomes privatized. As with Los Angeles, Internet II will be

 vandalized by users who will take no pride in it because they will not own

 it. The Secret Service will work as mall cops for the owners of Internet II.

 The promise of "500 channels" betrays the limits of corporate vision.

 Internet II will be "one-to-many" like cable TV instead of the "many-to-many"

 structure of the common carriers, because the former facilitates billing and

 control by local monopolies. Also, customers are not accustomed to

 pay-per-call on a local line, but they're getting used to pay-per-view

 programming on cable. Will you cuss and spit when you drop offline during a

 rainstorm? You will...with [censored].



 In the end, the corporate Internet will be designed for consumption, not

 community. Online services consider the latter an impediment to steady

 profits. Bovine consumers shop contentedly on 500 channels; discontented

 talkers just hog the lines. If corporate services had to destroy online

 communities that spring up like weeds in their well-kept yards, they would.

 Fortunately, they wonÿt have to; the Online Mall is barren ground.



 By some estimates, 1998 is the deadline to keep the Net from turning into

 the Third Mall from the Sun or that sanitized 1901 Kansas-style underground

 city in "A Boy and His Dog."  Here are ways to kill that serpent in its

 shell.



 - Breathe down the necks of the architects of Internet II.

 Infotainment industry demands may require physical features that

 facilitate billing and copyright protection. The IRS and the cops will

 certainly want their own window into the Net. What the users want,

 assuming they know, is considered irrelevant. Change that by working

 through groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but keep them from

 accepting "compromise" measures to wiretap "only" certain communications

 channels. It's like prison etiquette, in which the proper response to a

 proprietary hand on the shoulder is either a sock on the jaw or meek

 acceptance of what comes next. Given what's at stake, such a savage ethic

 applies. Freedom lent is freedom lost.



 - Boycott obvious government lapdogs.

 Do not surrender the Internet to the government; it has no legitimate

 claim to it. The Internet is like an abandoned military base built into a

 community by squatters. The original tenants have long ago gotten their

 money's worth from it and cannot take credit for the value added by the

 new settlers. The Internet communications standard, TCP/IP, which turned

 all the networks into the Internet, is public domain. The feds don't own

 it any more than they own the measurement of one U.S. gallon. The

 government still owns high-speed backbones, such as the National Science

 Foundation's NSFnet, and it can and does allow semi-private consortia like

 Merit to operate and maintain them. The users should claim the Internet,

 however, by usufruct ("fruitful use"), a legal concept under which

 squatters gain the right to occupy a structure in exchange for having

 improved it.  If all else fails, boycott Internet II and go back to

 TCP/IP. The latter may not have the bandwidth and the bells and whistles

 of Internet II, but it works well enough and won't have wiretap-friendly

 features built into it. Most projected growth will come from the online

 services dumping settlers by the millions on Internet II, taking the load

 off the present Internet. Currently dedicated but unused Internet addresses

 can be redistributed. TCP/IP, the current protocol, can support 20+ million

 people worldwide, which is probably the proportion of the population

 willing and able to protect their freedom online. Even without an Internet,

 there are systems that will work in a pinch, like FIDOnet, invented by Tom

 Jennings and a few others. Using personal computers and ordinary phone

 lines, FIDOnet delivers e-mail to 30,000+ sites in the world. So

 alternatives exist, though it would be a shame to have to abandon a

 community just when it was starting to mature.  De-evolution of the

 Internet community is a likely outcome but it's not inevitable. For the

 first time since the Whiskey Rebellion there's a chance to redirect

 American history from the seemingly endless march to centralized control.

 The technology is pretty cheap and widely available (unlike rockets), so

 it's a rare opportunity for real grass-roots action to create something

 that people can actually use. Internet doesn't have to go the way of other

 Big Science projects. But it will take a real fight; the other side won't

 deal if it doesn't think it has to. At stake is the future of the online

 community. Civilization built in an Autonomous Zone or pay-per-view

 surveillance (guess who pays?) in the Third Mall from the Sun:

 WHICH WILL IT BE? Those words fill the screen, accompanied by Raymond

 Massey whispering and chorus singing same, in "Things to Come."  Fadeout).



 The Third Mall from the Sun concept belongs to late comic genius Bill Hicks.

 Burn joss money in his memory to help cover his bar tab in the afterlife.



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       EFF SUMMARY OF THE EDWARDS/LEAHY DIGITAL TELEPHONY BILL



 From Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>



 OVERVIEW

 --------



 The Edwards/Leahy Digital Telephony bill places functional requirements on

 telecommunications carriers in order to enable law enforcement to continue

 to conduct authorized electronic surveillance. It allows a court to impose

 fines on carriers that violate the requirements, and mandates that the

 processes for determining capacity requirements and technical standards be

 open and public.  The bill also contains significant new privacy

 protections; including an increased standard for government access to

 transactional data (such as addressing information contained in electronic

 mail logs), a requirement that information acquired through the use of pen

 registers or trap and trace devices not disclose the physical location of an

 individual, and an expansion of current law to protect the radio portion of

 cordless telephone conversations from unauthorized surveillance.





 SCOPE OF THE BILL.  WHO IS COVERED?

 -----------------------------------



 The requirements of the bill apply to "telecommunications carriers", which

 are defined as any person or entity engaged in the transmission or

 switching of wire or electronic communications as a common carrier for hire

 (as defined by section 3 (h) of the Communications Act of 1934), including

 commercial mobile services (cellular, PCS, etc.).  The bill also applies to

 those persons or entities engaged in providing wire or electronic

 communication switching or transmission service to the extent

 that the FCC finds that such service is a replacement for a substantial

 portion of the local telephone exchange.



 The bill does not apply to online communication and information services

 such as Internet providers, Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy, and BBS's. It also

 excludes private networks, PBX's, and facilities which only interconnect

 telecommunications carriers or private networks (such as most long

 distance service).





 REQUIREMENTS IMPOSED ON CARRIERS

 --------------------------------



 Telecommunications carriers would be required to ensure that they

 possess sufficient capability and capacity to accommodate law enforcement's

 needs.  The bill distinguishes between capability and capacity

 requirements, and ensures that the determination of such requirements occur

 in an open and public process.





 CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS

 -----------------------



 A telecommunications carrier is required to ensure that, within four years

 from the date of enactment, it has the capability to:



 1.      expeditiously isolate the content of a targeted communication

         within its service area;



 2.      isolate call-identifying information about the origin and

         destination of a targeted communication;



 3.      enable the government to access isolated communications at a point

         away from the carrier's premises and on facilities procured by the

         government, and;



 4.      to do so unobtrusively and in such a way that protects the privacy

         and security of communications not authorized to be intercepted

         (Sec. 2601).



 However, the bill does not permit law enforcement agencies or officers to

 require the specific design of features or services, nor does it prohibit a

 carrier from deploying any feature or service which does not meet the

 requirements outlined above.





 CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS

 ---------------------



 Within 1 year of enactment of the bill, the Attorney General must

 determine the maximum number of intercepts, pen register, and trap and

 trace devices that law enforcement will require four years from the date of

 enactment.  Notices of capacity requirements must be published in the

 Federal Register (Sec. 2603).   Carriers have 4 years to comply with

 capacity requirements.



 PROCESS FOR DETERMINING TECH. STANDARDS TO IMPLEMENT CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------



 Telecommunications carriers, through trade associations or standards

 setting bodies and in consultation with the Attorney General, must

 determine the technical specifications necessary to implement the

 capability requirements (Sec. 2606).



 The bill contains a 'safe harbor' provision, which allows a carrier to meet

 its obligations under the legislation if it is in compliance with publicly

 available standards set through this process.   A carrier may deploy a

 feature or service in the absence of technical standards, although in such

 a case the carrier would not be covered by the safe harbor provision and

 may be found in violation.



 Furthermore, the legislation allows any one to file a motion at the FCC in

 the event that a standard violates the privacy and security of

 telecommunications networks or does not meet the requirements of the bill

 (Sec. 2606).  If petitioned under this section, the FCC may establish

 technical requirements or standards that:



 1)      meet the capability requirements (in Sec. 2602);



 2)      protect the privacy and security of communications not authorized

         to be intercepted, and;



 3)      encourage the provision of new technologies and services to the

         public.





 ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES

 -------------------------



 In the event that a court or the FCC deems a technical standard to be

 insufficient, or if law enforcement finds that it is unable to conduct

 authorized surveillance because a carrier has not met the requirements of

 this legislation, the Attorney General can request that a court issue an

 enforcement order (an order directing a carrier to comply), and/or a fine

 of up to $10,000 per day for each day in violation (Sec. 2607).  However, a

 court can issue an enforcement order or fine a carrier only if it can be

 determined that no other reasonable alternatives are available to law

 enforcement.  This provision allows carriers to deploy features and

 services which may not meet the requirements of the bill.  Furthermore,

 this legislation does not permit the government to block the adoption or

 use of any feature or service by a telecommunications carrier which does

 not meet the requirements.



 The bill requires the government to reimburse carriers for all reasonable

 costs associated with complying with the capacity requirements. In other

 words, the government will pay for upgrades of current features or

 services, as well as any future upgrades which may be necessary, pursuant

 to published notices of capacity requirements (Sec. 2608).



 There is $500,000,000 authorized for appropriation to cover the costs of

 government reimbursements to carriers.  In the event that a smaller sum is

 actually appropriated, the bill allows a court to determine whether a

 carrier must comply (Sec. 2608 (d)).  This section recognizes that

 telecommunications carriers may not  be responsible for meeting the

 requirements if the government does not cover reasonable costs.



 The government is also required to submit a report to congress within four

 years describing all costs paid to carriers for upgrades (Sec. 4).





 ENHANCED PRIVACY PROTECTIONS

 ----------------------------



 The legislation contains enhanced privacy protections for transactional

 information (such as telephone toll records and electronic mail logs)

 generated in the course of completing a communication.  Current law permits

 law enforcement to gain access to transactional information through a

 subpoena.   The bill establishes a higher standard for law enforcement

 access to transactional data contained electronic mail logs and other

 online records.  Telephone toll records would still be available through a

 subpoena.   Under the new standard, law enforcement is required to obtain a

 court order by demonstrating specific and articulable facts that electronic

 mail logs and other online transactional records are relevant and material

 to an ongoing criminal investigation (Sec. 10).



 Law enforcement is also prohibited from remotely activating any

 surveillance capability.  All intercepts must be conducted with the

 affirmative consent of a telecommunications carrier and activated by a

 designated employee of the carrier within the carrier's facilities (Sec.

 2604).



 The bill further requires that, when using pen registers and trap and trace

 devices, law enforcement will use, when reasonably available, devices which

 only provide call set up and dialed number information (Sec. 10).  This

 provision will ensure that as law enforcement employs new technologies in

 pen register and trap and trace devices, it will not gain access to

 additional call setup information beyond its current authority.



 Finally, the bill extends the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)

 protections against interception of wireless communications to cordless

 telephones, making illegal the intentional interception of the radio

 portion of a cordless telephone (the transmission between the handset

 and the base unit).





 CELLULAR SCANNERS

 -----------------



 The bill makes it a crime to possess or use an altered telecommunications

 instrument (such as a cellular telephone or scanning receiver) to obtain

 unauthorized access to telecommunications services (Sec. 9).  This

 provision is intended to prevent the illegal use of cellular and other

 wireless communications services.  Violations under this section face

 imprisonment for up to 15 years and a fine of up to $50,000.





 IMPROVEMENTS OF THE EDWARDS/LEAHY BILL OVER PREVIOUS FBI PROPOSALS

 ------------------------------------------------------------------



 The Digital Telephony legislative proposal was first offered in 1992 by the

 Bush Administration.  The 1992 version of the bill:



 *       applied to all providers of wire or electronic communications

         services (no exemptions for information services, interexchange

         carriers or private networks);



 *       gave the government the explicit authority to block or enjoin a

         feature or service that did not meet the requirements;



 *       contained no privacy protections;



 *       contained no public process for determining the capacity

         requirements;



 *       contained no government reimbursement (carriers were responsible

         for meeting all costs);



 *       would have allowed remote access to communications by law

         enforcement, and;



 *       granted telecommunications carriers only 18 months to comply.



 The Bush Administration proposal was offered on capitol hill for almost a

 year, but did attract any congressional sponsors.



 The proposal was again offered under the Clinton Administration's FBI in

 March of 1993.  The Clinton Administration's bill was a moderated version

 of the original 1992 proposal:



 *       It required the government to pay all reasonable costs incurred by

         telecommunications carriers in retrofitting their facilities in

         order to correct existing problems;



 *       It encouraged (but did not require), the Attorney General to consult

         with telecommunications industry representatives and standards

         bodies to facilitate compliance,



 *       It narrowed the scope of the legislation to common carriers, rather

         than all providers of electronic communications services.



         Although the Clinton Administration version was an improvement

         over the Bush Administration proposal, it did not address the

         larger concerns of public interest organizations or the

         telecommunications industry.  The Clinton Administration version:



 *       did not contain any protections for access to transactional

         information;



 *       did not contain any public process for determining the capability

         requirements or public notice of law enforcement's capacity needs;



 *       would have allowed law enforcement to dictate system design and

         bar the introduction of features and services which did not meet

         the requirements, and;



 *       would have allowed law enforcement to use pen registers and trap and

         trace devices to obtain tracking or physical location information.





 Locating Relevant Documents

 ===========================



 ** Original 1992 Bush-era draft **



 ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/FBI/Old/digtel92_old_bill.draft

 gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/FBI/Old, digtel92_old_bill.draft

 http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/FBI/Old/digtel92_old_bill.draft

 bbs: +1 202 638 6120 (8N1, 300-14400bps), file area: Privacy - Digital

      Telephony; file: digtel92.old



 ** 1993/1994 Clinton-era draft **



 ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/FBI/digtel94_bill.draft

 gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/FBI, digtel94_bill.draft

 http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/FBI/digtel94_bill.draft

 bbs: +1 202 638 6120 (8N1, 300-14400bps), file area: Privacy - Digital

      Telephony; file: digtel94.dft





 ** 1994 final draft, as sponsored **



 ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/FBI/digtel94.bill

 gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/FBI, digtel94.bill

 http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/FBI/digtel94.bill

 bbs: +1 202 638 6120 (8N1, 300-14400bps), file area: Privacy - Digital

      Telephony; file: digtel94.bil





 ** EFF Statement on sponsored version **



 ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/FBI/digtel94_statement.eff

 gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/FBI, digtel94_statement.eff

 http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/FBI/digtel94_statement.eff

 bbs: +1 202 638 6120 (8N1, 300-14400bps), file area: Privacy - Digital

      Telephony; file: digtel94.eff



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                              'ZINE FAQ



 By Jerod Pore (jerod23@well.sf.ca.us)



 This file is Shareright 1994 by Jerod Pore;  you may (and please do) copy,

 reproduce, replicate and distribute this information however, whereever

 and in whatever format, and as often as you wish, as long as this sentence

 is included.



 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.



 What are zines?



 Zines are small press publications with a press run of 15 - 5,000.  They

 often deal with obscure or controversial subjects, or they're about the

 life of the publisher, or they're about the latest underground muzak

 sensation.



 How does one find out about zines?



 The best place to start is with Factsheet Five or Factsheet Five-Electric.

 We review 1,000 - 1,500 zines every three months (more or less).  We

 provide ordering information, size, quality of reproduction, contents and

 what we think about a zine.  Once you get a few zines that sound

 interesting, you'll notice other zines referred to.  Pretty soon you'll

 have more reading material then you know what to do with.





 How does one produce a zine?



 That's beyond the scope of this document.  But my stock answer is go to

 lunch at 11:30 am, get back by 12:15 and you should have plenty of time

 to use the equipment at school or at work.  Write down your thoughts (I

 suggest doing artwork on your own time), photocopy 40 or 50 copies, send

 one to us and to a few zines you think would be interested in yours.

 You may want to get the Zine Publishers' Resource guide, either $3.00

 from Seth at the address below, or the prior version is available from

 the ftp and gopher sites.





 How does one get the zines?



 When ordering zines, cash is the best medium of exchange.  Forget what

 your mother told you about evil thieves stealing one dollar bills out of

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 money order is preferred over a check), then make it out to the name in

 the address portion of the reviews.  However, many people publish zines

 under pseudonyms.  Unless available only for a ridiculous amount of money,

 just send cash.



 Many zines, especially personal zines, science fiction fanzines and

 anarchist zines are available for what is quaintly known as "The Usual."

 "The Usual" is your zine or tape or record or calendar in trade, or a

 well-written Letter of Comment on the subject of the zine, or $2 - $3.

 Be warned about a few things.  There are no guarantees.  Checks are

 likely to be thrown away.  Some zine names with especially offensive

 titles have often had their mail thrown away by self-righteous born-

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 offend your third-grade teacher, don't put it on the envelope.  Some

 zines published in rather provincial parts of the world won't get their

 mail if the publisher's name isn't on the envelope, so whatever the name

 is in address, that's the name that should go on the envelope.  I can

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 requirements that are conveyed to me.  If a zine is free, you may want

 to help out with some stamps.  Free often translates as "The Usual," and

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 or electronic versions.



 The email address for Factsheet Five and Factsheet Five - Electric is:

 jerod23@well.sf.ca.us



 Once upon a time, Seth had an email address.  It may be reactivated in the

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 For anything that can't be sent electronically, which is most of the

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 PO Box 170099

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 San Francisco CA   94102-6297

 (This address is good for items that can't be sent to a PO Box)



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 the above addresses as you see fit.  Please, though, send your zine to

 just *ONE* address.  Multiple copies just slow us down.  I do most of

 the Fringe, Hate, Rant, SubGenius and Science Fiction/Fantasy zines.

 Seth either reviews or distributes the rest.



 We have a couple of long-time reviewers for two niches.  They publish

 their own review zines so you get twice the coverage.  We must stress that

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 rumours about zines and other underground media are there.  2600, Full

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 For now, updates to F5-E will be announced in the newsgroups that

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 An excellent suggestion was made about having an email service that

 announces just the names of the new or updated files to ftp users.

 I've juggled two email subscription lists, so this idea will be too much

 of a hassle to implement. I don't know if the zines-list is still active.

 If it is, I might send announcements out that way.



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 to coopt zines and so forth.  It's unmoderated, but there's a few of us

 there most of the time to answer these questions over&over&over and to

 point out that your slick publication about Christian technology with a

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 we work out everything.  Each file will have reviews of one or more

 zines that are somehow categorized together by subject matter or by

 reviewer.  Also feel free to post to alt.zines reviews of zines you have

 come across or to hype your own zines.  I've adopted the nerdy HTML format

 that is used for WWW browsing.



 While sticking to the format is nice, it is not necessary, as long as

 all pertinent information is included.  However if the reviews are to be

 accessible by the Web, then you had better do them this way.

 Please keep all reviews in vanilla ASCII format. Also keep them shareright.



 We are especially in need of reviews ezines and of zines that are published

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 used to live there, I understand the dialect and cultural references.

 We don't have the resources to review zines that aren't published in

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 If you get zines from other parts of the world and are willing to review

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                 LEGION OF DOOM T-SHIRTS!! Get 'em



 By Chris Goggans <phrack@well.sf.ca.us>



 After a complete sellout at HoHo Con 1993 in Austin, TX this past

 December, the official Legion of Doom t-shirts are available

 once again.  Join the net luminaries world-wide in owning one of

 these amazing shirts.  Impress members of the opposite sex, increase

 your IQ, annoy system administrators, get raided by the government and

 lose your wardrobe!



 Can a t-shirt really do all this?  Of course it can!



 "THE HACKER WAR  --  LOD vs MOD"



 This t-shirt chronicles the infamous "Hacker War" between rival

 groups The Legion of Doom and  The Masters of Destruction.  The front

 of the shirt displays a flight map of the various battle-sites

 hit by MOD and tracked by LOD.  The back of the shirt

 has a detailed timeline of the key dates in the conflict, and

 a rather ironic quote from an MOD member.



 (For a limited time, the original is back!)



 "LEGION OF DOOM  --  INTERNET WORLD TOUR"



 The front of this classic shirt displays "Legion of Doom Internet World

 Tour" as well as a sword and telephone intersecting the planet

 earth, skull-and-crossbones style.  The back displays the

 words "Hacking for Jesus" as well as a substantial list of "tour-stops"

 (internet sites) and a quote from Aleister Crowley.



 All t-shirts are sized XL, and are 100% cotton.



 Cost is $15.00 (US) per shirt.  International orders add $5.00 per shirt for

 postage.



 Send checks or money orders.  Please, no credit cards, even if

 it's really your card.





 Name:       __________________________________________________



 Address:    __________________________________________________



 City, State, Zip:   __________________________________________





 I want ____ "Hacker War" shirt(s)



 I want ____ "Internet World Tour" shirt(s)



 Enclosed is $______ for the total cost.



 Mail to:   Chris Goggans

            603 W. 13th #1A-278

            Austin, TX 78701



 These T-shirts are sold only as a novelty items, and are in no way

 attempting to glorify computer crime.



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                        A POINT AND CLICK SOCIETY

                   LEARN TO DRIVE, OR GET OFF THE ROAD



                              An Editorial



 By Scott Davis (dfox@fc.net)



 As a computer support professional, I am unfortunate enough to see some

 of the developments pertaining to the Internet as they occur. I say

 "unfortunate" not because what I see is so terrible, but what I see never

 ceases to knock me off of my feet. What I am referring to is the massive

 wave of new people coming on to the "Inpho-s00per Highway" who if not for

 icons to click on and a mouse to click with, would not be able to use a

 personal computer...much less some global network. Uhh..uhh I thank I'm

 referrin' to that "Inter-Net" thang...



 People are being sucked into a revolution of digital "Everything".

 Computers do their taxes, balance their books, order groceries and other

 products, and deliver electronic mail...among other things. But, it bugs me

 to no end to see somebody with an e-mail address from AOL. It makes me

 want to mail them back and tell them "HEY! Did you know that you are on

 the dirt road that runs beside the Internet?" Or tell them to "Get out

 of the ghetto of the Internet." "Do you know what you're doing?"



 What the big companies have done is give the masses a loaded gun... and

 the masses have never fired a weapon in their life! They've given them

 a Porsche 944...and they've never driven a car. But I also question the

 common sense of the average computer user. "Do you know what this computer

 does?" The bottom line is that there are more things to do with this thing

 than point and click on all of your pretty applications.



 Services such as AOL promote things like "electronic mail" and "Access to

 the Internet". But how many people who purchased the software did any

 reading or research as to WHAT the Internet is. WHAT is electronic mail?

 I know that I'll probably get a thousand flames for this article, and

 they'll say 'We were all newbies once!" I am completely aware of that,

 but when we (people who have been on the Net for 5+ years) were new,

 we had to learn every aspect of what we were getting into. There was no

 point-and-click options. If we did not know command line operations,

 we didn't surf! One problem can be contributed to the press. This is

 the fact that they have made "The Internet" and Info-SuperHighway"

 buzz-phrases that people are going to be attracted to because they

 sound "cool".



 There are no PC-based computers being marketed without Dos and Windows

 to this editor's knowledge. When the customer sees "Dos and Windows",

 how many people do you think say, "Hey Look...it's got Dos too!"

 It simply does not happen. Who cares what an operating system is, right?

 Well, the fact is...you better care. Because without an operating system,

 you wouldn't be able to point and click on you pretty little icons.



 I commend AOL, Compuserve, Microsoft and others who develop software

 for the masses. They do a fine job and a great service to the world.

 Computing just would not be the same without them (I guess).



 Computers are being mass-marketed and distributed to the public like

 social security cards. For the big-boys in the industry, this is good.

 It means profit, jobs, and market-share...and that sometime soon, every

 household in America will have at least one computer (or doorstop) and the

 owner will not know the first thing about it.



 Commercial software manufacturers and Internet service providers are

 looking at this as a slaughter. Rounding up the cattle, as it were.

 This is fine with me, but it is the end-user's responsibility to

 do work on his/her own to know what this "Hi-Tek-Hiway" is. There are

 ways not to become sheep. And if you don't do your homework, you don't

 deserve better.



 I think that people should be required to attend some in-depth computer

 courses before being able to buy one.



 * Computer Basics: This class would last a total of 100 hours. Two hours

   a night, three nights a week.  Windows and other applications would not

   be discussed. The students would have to prove that they are proficient

   in Dos, Unix, or whatever command-line operating system their PC used.

   At the end of the 100 hour course, if they passed the command-line stuff,

   they would be permitted to attend a class that provided instruction

   on GUI's and other software.



 * Internet Basics 101:  If the sheep are so eager to get on this damn

   SuperHighway, learn what it is about. Learn where it origninated and

   what it can do. --- and learn how NOT to be a headache to others.

   Ethics would be a portion of the instruction. Learn who you are,

   evaluate your place on the Net, and know that no matter who you are...

   there are bigger and better hackers out there.



 * Learn the difference between the Highway and the shoulder.



 * What is "REAL" access and just a gateway to where you WISH you were.



 * Hardware Troubleshooting:  If my floppy disk drive is not working, I'd

   kinda like to know what to do to see if it is actually broken. If you

   purchased a $30,000 car and there were no service centers in the world,

   wouldn't you like to know how to change your oil?



 * Telecommunications Instruction:  What is a modem? What does it do?

   Learn how to use non-commercial telecom software. Find some modem

   software package that does not come from a major service provider

   or is not used with the most popular GUI in the world...and call up a

   few local bulletin board systems. Also, if my modem is not functioning,

   I'd like to know some of the reasons why, and try to correct them.



 These are some simple suggestions that I believe everyone should do before

 purchasing a computer system. Of course, if you have been using computers

 for an extended period of time and proclaim to know how they work, there

 would be a CLEP test for you. Answer 5 questions about hardware, three

 questions on Internet, and answer NO to the question "Do you use Windows?"

 and you'll be on your way home with that new system. This is certainly not

 an attempt to hammer commerical services and/or providers, certain

 software programs designed to make computing easier, or the people who

 use them. It's simply a statement saying "Know what you're doing, make

 yourself open to fluctuations in trends, educate yourself on global

 networking, and have a nice day." There is no excuse for ignorance. Open

 your documentation, go to the book store, whatever. Do your homework.

 Otherwise, pull over...you're going to jail for driving without a license.



 There are political fights going on right now over different aspects of

 this "SuperHighway" that you're so eager to get on. The decisions made

 will ultimately affect you. Do you care? You should. There are lawyers,

 lobbyists, organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation,

 and many individuals fighting for your right to use the services that

 you use. They are fighting to keep it "usable."



 In closing, be alert, be aware...and get educated. The light at the end of

 the tunnel to success might be a locomotive!



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 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND MAIL TO YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS ASKING THEM

 IF THEY OFFER THEIR SYSTEM LOGS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES - ESPECIALLY IF

 YOU LIVE IN TEXAS.  ACTIONS SUCH AS THIS MAY BE A VIOLATION OF YOUR

 PRIVACY.  IF YOU DISCOVER THIS TO BE THE CASE, MAIL US!



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               KEYNOTE ADDRESS : CRYPTOGRAPHY CONFERENCE



 By Bruce Sterling (bruces@well.sf.ca.us)



       Hello everybody.  It's quite an honor to be delivering the

 keynote address -- a *thankfully brief* keynote address -- at this

 conference.  I hope to clear the decks in short order, and let you

 spend an engrossing afternoon, listening to an intense discussion of

 complex and important public issues, by highly qualified people, who

 fully understand what they're talking about.  Unlike myself.



       Before all this begins, though, I do want to establish a

 context for this conference.  Let me briefly put on my professional

 dunce-hat, as a popular-science writer, and try to make it clear to

 you exactly what the heck is going on here today.



 Cryptography.   The science and study of secret writing, especially

 codes and cypher systems.  The procedures, processes, measures and

 algorithms for making and using secret exchanges of information.

 *Secret*  exchanges, done, made and conducted without the knowledge of

 others, whether those others be governments, competitors, local, state

 or federal police, private investigators, wiretappers, cellular

 scanners, corporate security people, marketers, merchandisers,

 journalists, public health officials, squads for public decency,

 snoopy neighbors, or even your own spouse, your own parents, or your

 own children.



       Cryptography is a way to confine knowledge to the initiated and

 the privileged in your circle, whatever that circle might be:

 corporate co-workers, fellow bureaucrats, fellow citizens, fellow

 modem-users, fellow artists, fellow writers, fellow

 influence-peddlers, fellow criminals, fellow software pirates, fellow

 child pornographers.



       Cryptography is a way to assure the privacy of digital way to

 help control the ways in which you reveal yourself to the world.  It

 is also a way to turn everything inside a computer, even a computer

 seized or stolen by experts, into an utterly scrambled Sanskrit that

 no one but the holder of the key can read.  It is a swift, powerful,

 portable method of high-level computer security.   Electronic

 cryptography is potentially, perhaps, even a new form of information

 economics.



       Cryptography is a very hot issue in electronic civil liberties

 circles at the moment.  After years of the deepest, darkest,

 never-say-anything, military spook obscurity, cryptography is out of

 the closet and openly flaunting itself in the street.  Cryptography is

 attracting serious press coverage.  The federal administration has

 offered its own cryptographic cure-all, the Clipper Chip.

 Cryptography is being discussed openly and publicly, and practiced

 openly and publicly.  It is passing from the hands of giant secretive

 bureaucracies, to the desktop of the individual.   Public-key

 cryptography, in particular, is a strange and novel form of

 cryptography which has some very powerful collateral applications and

 possibilities, which can only be described as bizarre, and possibly

 revolutionary.   Cryptography is happening, and happening now.



       It often seems a truism in science and technology that it takes

 twenty years for anything really important to  happen:  well,

 Whitfield Diffie was publishing about public-key cryptography in 1975.

 The idea, the theory for much of what will be discussed today was

 already in place, theoretically, in 1975.  This would suggest a target

 date of 1995 for this issue to break permanently out of the arid world

 of theory, and into the juicy, down-and-dirty real world of politics,

 lawsuits, and money.  I rather think that this is a likely scenario.

 Personally, I think the situation's gonna blow a seam.  And by

 choosing to attend this EFF and EFF-Austin conference in September

 1993, you are still a handy two years ahead of the curve.  You can

 congratulate yourself!



       Why do I say blow a seam?  Because at this very moment, ladies

 and gentlemen, today, there is a grand jury meeting in Silicon Valley,

 under the auspices of two US federal attorneys and the US Customs

 Service.  That grand jury is mulling over possible illegality,

 possible indictments, possible heaven-knows-what, relating to supposed

 export-law violations concerning this powerful cryptography

 technology.  A technology so powerful that exporting cryptographic

 algorithms requires the same license that our government would grant

 to a professional armaments dealer.   We can envision this federal

 grand jury meeting, in San Jose California, as a kind of dark salute

 to our conference here in Austin, a dark salute from the forces of

 the cryptographic status quo.  I can guarantee you that whatever you

 hear at this conference today, is not gonna be the last you hear about

 this subject.



       I can also guarantee you that the people you'll be hearing from

 today are ideal people to tell you about these issues.  I wrote a book

 once, partly about some of these people, so I've come to know some of

 them personally.   I hope you'll forgive me, if I briefly wax all

 sentimental in public about how wonderful they are.  There will be

 plenty of time for us to get all hardened and dark and cynical later.

 I'll be glad to help do that, because I'm pretty good at that when I

 put my mind to it, but in the meantime, today, we should feel  lucky.

 We are lucky enough to have some people here who can actually tell us

 something useful about our future.  Our real future, the future we can

 actually have, the future we'll be living in,  the future that we can

 actually do something about.



       We have among us today the board of directors of the Electronic

 Frontier Foundation.  They are meeting in Austin in order to pursue

 strategy for their own national organization, but in the meantime,

 they also have graciously agreed to appear publicly and share their

 expertise and their opinions with us Austinites.  Furthermore, they

 are not getting a dime out of this; they are doing it, amazingly, out

 of sheer public-spiritedness.



       I'm going to introduce each of them and talk about them very

 briefly.  I hope you will reserve your applause until the end.

 Although these people deserve plenty of applause, we are short on

 quality applause resources.  In fact, today we will be rationing

 applause care, in order to assure a supply of basic, decent,

 ego-boosting applause for everyone, including those unable to

 privately afford top-quality applause care for the health of their own

 egos.  A federal-policy in-joke for the many Washington insiders we

 have in the room today.



       Very well,  on to the business at hand.  Mitch Kapor is a

 cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a software designer,

 a very prominent software entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a writer and

 journalist, and a civil liberties activist.  In 1990, when Mr. Kapor

 co-founded EFF, there was very considerable legal and constitutional

 trouble in the world of cyberspace.  Mitch spoke out on these

 sometimes-arcane, sometimes-obscure issues, and he spoke loudly,

 repeatedly, publicly, and very effectively.  And when Mitch Kapor

 finished speaking-out, those issues were no longer obscure or arcane.

 This is a gift Mitch has, it seems.  Mitch Kapor has also quietly done

 many good deeds for the electronic community, despite his full

 personal knowledge that no good deed goes unpunished.  We very likely

 wouldn't be meeting here today, if it weren't for Mitch, and anything

 he says will be well worth your attention.



       Jerry Berman is the President and Director of Electronic

 Frontier Foundation, which is based in Washington DC.  He is a

 longtime electronic civil liberties activist, formerly the founder and

 director of the Projects on Privacy and Information Technology for the

 American Civil Liberties Union.  Jerry Berman has published widely on

 the legal and legislative implications of computer security and

 electronic communications privacy, and his expertise in networks and

 the law is widely recognized.  He is heading EFF's efforts on the

 national information infrastructure in the very thick of the

 Clinton-Gore administration, and Mr Berman, as you might imagine, is a

 very busy man these days, with a lot of digital irons in the virtual

 fire.



       Mr. Kapor and Mr Berman will be taking part in our first panel

 today, on the topic of EFF's current directions in national public

 policy.  This panel will last from 1:45 to 3PM sharp and should be

 starting about fifteen minutes after I knock it off and leave this

 podium.   We will allow these well-qualified gentlemen to supply their

 own panel moderation, and simply tell us whatever is on their minds.

 And I rather imagine that given the circumstances, cryptography is

 likely to loom large.  And, along with the other panels, if they want

 to throw it open for questions from the floor, that's their decision.



       There will be a fifteen-minute break between each panel to

 allow our brains to decompress.



        Our second panel today, beginning at 3:15,  will be on the

 implications of cryptography for law enforcement and for industry, and

 the very large and increasingly dangerous areas where police and

 industry overlap in cyberspace.  Our participants will be Esther Dyson

 and Mike Godwin.



       Esther Dyson is a prominent computer-industry journalist.

 Since 1982, she has published a well-known and widely-read industry

 newsletter called Release 1.0.  Her industry symposia are justly

 famous, and she's also very well-known as an industry-guru in Central

 and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  Ms Dyson is very

 knowledgeable, exceptionally well-informed, and always a healthy

 distance ahead of her time.  When it comes to the computer industry,

 Esther Dyson not only knows where the bodies are buried, she has a

 chalk outline ready-and-waiting for the bodies that are still upright!

 She's on the Board of EFF as well as the Santa Fe Institute, the

 Global Business Network, the Women's Forum, and the Poynter Institute

 for Media Studies.



       Mike Godwin is the legal services council for EFF.  He is a

 journalist, writer, attorney, legal theorist, and legal adviser to the

 electronically distressed.  He is a veteran public speaker on these

 topics, who has conducted many seminars and taken part in many fora

 all over the United States.  He is also a former Austinite, a graduate

 of the UT School of Law, and a minor character in a William Gibson

 novel, among his other unique distinctions.  Mike Godwin is not only

 in EFF inside the beltway of Washington, but is on the board of the

 local group, EFF-Austin.  Mike Godwin is a well-known, one might even

 say beloved, character in the electronic community.  Mike Godwin is

 especially beloved to those among us who have had machinery sucked

 into the black hole of a federal search-and-seizure process.



       Our third panel today, beginning at 4:45,  will be the uniquely

 appropriate Cypherpunk Panel.  Our three barricade-climbing,

 torch-waving,  veteran manifesto-writers will be John Perry Barlow,

 John Gilmore and Eric Hughes.



       Mr Eric Hughes is NOT a member of the EFF Board of Directors.

 Mr Hughes is the moderator of the well-known, notorious even, Internet

 cypherpunk mailing list.  He is a private citizen and programmer from

 the Bay Area of California, who has a computer, has a modem, has

 crypto-code and knows how to use it!  Mr Hughes is here today entirely

 on his own, very considerable, initiative, and we of EFF-Austin are

 proud to have him here to publicly declare anything and everything

 that he cares to tell us about this important public issue.



       Mr John Gilmore *is* a member of the EFF Board.  He is a

 twenty-year veteran programmer, a pioneer in Sun Microsystems and

 Cygnus Support, a stalwart of the free software movement, and a

 long-term electronic civil libertarian who is very bold and forthright

 in his advocacy of privacy, and of private encryption systems.   Mr

 Gilmore is, I must say, remarkable among UNIX and GNU programmers for

 the elegance and clarity of his prose writings.  I believe that even

 those who may disagree with Mr Gilmore about the complex and important

 issues of cryptography, will be forced to admit that they actually

 understand what Mr Gilmore is saying.  This alone makes him a

 national treasure.  Furthermore, John Gilmore has never attended

 college, and has never bought a suit.  When John Gilmore speaks his

 mind in public, people should sit up straight!



       And our last introductee is the remarkable John Perry Barlow.

 Journalist, poet, activist, techno-crank, manifesto-writer, WELLbeing,

 long-time lyricist for the Grateful Dead, co-founder of Electronic

 Frontier Foundation, member of the Wyoming Republican Party, a man who

 at last count had at least ten personal phone numbers, including two

 faxes, two cellulars and a beeper;  bon vivant, legend in his own

 time, a man with whom superlatives fail, art critic, father of three,

 contributing editor of MONDO 2000, a man and a brother that I am proud

 to call truly *my kind of guy:* John Perry Barlow.



       So these are our panelists today, ladies and gentlemen:  a fine

 group of public-spirited American citizens who, coincidentally, happen

 to have a collective IQ high enough to boil platinum.   Let's give

 them a round of applause.



       (((frenzied applause)))



       Thank you.  Ladies and gentlemen, EFF-Austin is not the EFF.

 We are a local group with our own incorporation and our own unique

 organizational challenges.  We are doing things on a local scale,

 where the National EFF  cannot operate.  But we know them, and we

 *like* them, and we are proud to have them here.  Furthermore, every

 time some Austin company, such as Steve Jackson Games Incorporated, or

 the currently unlucky Austin Codeworks, publishers of a program called

 "Moby Crypto," find themselves in some strange kind of federal hot

 water, we are not only proud to know the EFF, we are *glad* to know

 them.  Glad, and *grateful!*   They have a lot to tell us today, and

 they are going to tell us things they believe we really need to know.

 And after these formal panels, this evening from 8 to 10, we are

 going to indulge in a prolonged informal session of what we Austinites

 are best at:  absorbing alcohol,  reminiscing about the Sixties, and

 making what Mitch Kapor likes to call "valuable personal contacts."



       We of EFF-Austin are proud and happy to be making information

 and opinion  on important topics and issues available to you, the

 Austin public, at NO CHARGE!!



       Of course, it would help us a lot, if you bought some of the

 unbelievably hip and with-it  T-shirts we made up for this gig, plus

 the other odd and somewhat overpriced, frankly, memorabilia and

 propaganda items that we of EFF-Austin sell, just like every other

 not-for-profit organization in the world.  Please help yourself to

 this useful and enlightening stuff, so that the group can make more

 money and become even more ambitious than we already are.



       And on a final note, for those of you who are not from Austin,

 I want to say to you as an Austinite and member of EFF-Austin, welcome

 to our city.  Welcome to the Capital of Texas.  The River City.  The

 City of the Violet Crown.  Silicon Hills.  Berkeley-on-the-Colorado.

 The Birthplace of Cyberpunk.  And the Waterloo of the Chicago Computer

 Fraud and Abuse Task Force.



       You are all very welcome here.



       So today,  let's all learn something, and let's all have some

 fun.  Thanks a lot.



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                       JACKBOOTS ON THE INFOBAHN



 By John Perry Barlow (WIRED 2.04)



 Clipper is a last ditch attempt by the United States, the last great power

 from the old Industrial Era, to establish imperial control over cyberspace.



 [Note: The following article appeared in the April 1994 issue of WIRED.

 We, the editors of WIRED, are net-casting it now in its pre-published form

 as a public service. Because of the vital and urgent nature of its message,

 we believe readers on the Net should hear and take action now. You are free

 to pass this article on electronically; in fact we urge you to replicate it

 throughout the net with our blessings. If you do, please keep the copyright

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 resources available through WIRED Online, send email to <infobot@wired.com>

 with the following message: "send clipper.index". - The Editors of WIRED]



 On January 11, I managed to schmooze myself aboard Air Force 2. It was

 flying out of LA, where its principal passenger had just outlined his

 vision of the information superhighway to a suited mob of television, show-

 biz, and cable types who  fervently hoped to own it one day - if they could

 ever figure out what the hell it was.



 From the standpoint of the Electronic Frontier Foundation the speech had

 been wildly encouraging. The administration's program, as announced by Vice

 President Al Gore, incorporated many of the concepts of open competition,

 universal access, and  deregulated common carriage that we'd been pushing

 for the previous year.



 But he had said nothing about the future of privacy, except to cite among

 the bounties of the NII its ability to "help law enforcement agencies

 thwart criminals and terrorists who might use advanced telecommunications

 to commit crimes."



 On the plane I asked Gore what this implied about administration policy on

 cryptography. He became as noncommittal as a cigar-store Indian. "We'll be

 making some announcements.... I can't tell you anything more." He hurried

 to the front of the  plane, leaving me to troubled speculation.



 Despite its fundamental role in assuring privacy, transaction security, and

 reliable identity within the NII, the Clinton administration has not

 demonstrated an enlightenment about cryptography up to par with the rest of

 its digital vision.



 The Clipper Chip - which threatens to be either the goofiest waste of

 federal dollars since President Gerald Ford's great Swine Flu program or,

 if actually deployed, a surveillance technology of profound malignancy -

 seemed at first an ugly legacy  of the Reagan-Bush modus operandi. "This is

 going to be our Bay of Pigs," one Clinton White House official told me at

 the time Clipper was introduced, referring to the disastrous plan to invade

 Cuba that Kennedy inherited from Eisenhower.



 (Clipper, in case you're just tuning in, is an encryption chip that the

 National Security Agency and FBI hope will someday be in every phone and

 computer in America. It scrambles your communications, making them

 unintelligible to all but their  intended recipients. All, that is, but the

 government, which would hold the "key" to your chip. The key would

 separated into two pieces, held in escrow, and joined with the appropriate

 "legal authority.")



 Of course, trusting the government with your privacy is like having a

 Peeping Tom install your window blinds. And, since the folks I've met in

 this White House seem like extremely smart, conscious freedom-lovers -

 hell, a lot of them are Deadheads -  I was sure that after they were fully

 moved in, they'd face down the National Security Agency and the FBI, let

 Clipper die a natural death, and lower the export embargo on reliable

 encryption products.



 Furthermore, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and the

 National Security Council have been studying both Clipper and export

 embargoes since April. Given that the volumes of expert testimony they had

 collected overwhelmingly opposed  both, I expected the final report would

 give the administration all the support it needed to do the right thing.



 I was wrong. Instead, there would be no report. Apparently, they couldn't

 draft one that supported, on the evidence, what they had decided to do

 instead.



 THE OTHER SHOE DROPS



 On Friday, February 4, the other jackboot dropped. A series of

 announcements from the administration made it clear that cryptography would

 become their very own "Bosnia of telecommunications" (as one staffer put

 it). It wasn't just that the old  Serbs in the National Security Agency and

 the FBI were still making the calls. The alarming new reality was that the

 invertebrates in the White House were only too happy to abide by them.

 Anything to avoid appearing soft on drugs or terrorism.



 So, rather than ditching Clipper, they declared it a Federal Data

 Processing Standard, backing that up with an immediate government order for

 50,000 Clipper devices. They appointed the National Institutes of Standards

 and Technology and the  Department of Treasury as the "trusted" third

 parties that would hold the Clipper key pairs. (Treasury, by the way, is

 also home to such trustworthy agencies as the Secret Service and the Bureau

 of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.)



 They reaffirmed the export embargo on robust encryption products, admitting

 for the first time that its purpose was to stifle competition to Clipper.

 And they outlined a very porous set of requirements under which the cops

 might get the keys to your  chip. (They would not go into the procedure by

 which the National Security Agency could get them, though they assured us

 it was sufficient.)



 They even signaled the impending return of the dread Digital Telephony, an

 FBI legislative initiative requiring fundamental reengineering of the

 information infrastructure; providing wiretapping ability to the FBI would

 then become the paramount  design priority.



 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS



 Actually, by the time the announcements thudded down, I wasn't surprised by

 them. I had spent several days the previous week in and around the White

 House.



 I felt like I was in another remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

 My friends in the administration had been transformed. They'd been subsumed

 by the vast mindfield on the other side of the security clearance membrane,

 where dwell the  monstrous bureaucratic organisms that feed on fear. They'd

 been infected by the institutionally paranoid National Security Agency's

 Weltanschauung.



 They used all the telltale phrases. Mike Nelson, the White House point man

 on the NII, told me, "If only I could tell you what I know, you'd feel the

 same way I do." I told him I'd been inoculated against that argument during

 Vietnam. (And it does  seem to me that if you're going to initiate a

 process that might end freedom in America, you probably need an argument

 that isn't classified.)



 Besides, how does he know what he knows? Where does he get his information?

 Why, the National Security Agency, of course. Which, given its strong

 interest in the outcome, seems hardly an unimpeachable source.



 However they reached it, Clinton and Gore have an astonishingly simple

 bottom line, to which even the future of American liberty and prosperity is

 secondary: They believe that it is their responsibility to eliminate, by

 whatever means, the  possibility that some terrorist might get a nuke and

 use it on, say, the World Trade Center. They have been convinced that such

 plots are more likely to ripen to hideous fruition behind a shield of

 encryption.



 The staffers I talked to were unmoved by the argument that anyone smart

 enough to steal a nuclear device is probably smart enough to use PGP or

 some other uncompromised crypto standard. And never mind that the last

 people who popped a hooter in the  World Trade Center were able to get it

 there without using any cryptography and while under FBI surveillance.



 We are dealing with religion here. Though only ten American lives have been

 lost to terrorism in the last two years, the primacy of this threat has

 become as much an article of faith with these guys as the Catholic

 conviction that human life begins  at conception or the Mormon belief that

 the Lost Tribe of Israel crossed the Atlantic in submarines.



 In the spirit of openness and compromise, they invited the Electronic

 Frontier Foundation to submit other solutions to the "problem" of the

 nuclear-enabled terrorist than key escrow devices, but they would not admit

 into discussion the argument that  such a threat might, in fact, be some

 kind of phantasm created by the spooks to ensure their lavish budgets into

 the post-Cold War era.



 As to the possibility that good old-fashioned investigative techniques

 might be more valuable in preventing their show-case catastrophe (as it was

 after the fact in finding the alleged perpetrators of the last attack on

 the World Trade Center), they  just hunkered down and said that when

 wiretaps were necessary, they were damned well necessary.



 When I asked about the business that American companies lose because of

 their inability to export good encryption products, one staffer essentially

 dismissed the market, saying that total world trade in crypto goods was

 still less than a billion  dollars. (Well, right. Thanks more to the

 diligent efforts of the National Security Agency than to dim sales

 potential.)



 I suggested that a more immediate and costly real-world effect of their

 policies would be to reduce national security by isolating American

 commerce, owing to a lack of international confidence in the security of

 our data lines. I said that Bruce  Sterling's fictional data-enclaves in

 places like the Turks and Caicos Islands were starting to look real-world

 inevitable.



 They had a couple of answers to this, one unsatisfying and the other scary.

 The unsatisfying answer was that the international banking community could

 just go on using DES, which still seemed robust enough to them. (DES is the

 old federal Data  Encryption Standard, thought by most cryptologists to be

 nearing the end of its credibility.)



 More frightening was their willingness to counter the data-enclave future

 with one in which no data channels anywhere would be secure from

 examination by one government or another. Pointing to unnamed other

 countries that were developing their own  mandatory standards and

 restrictions regarding cryptography, they said words to the effect of,

 "Hey, it's not like you can't outlaw the stuff. Look at France."



 Of course, they have also said repeatedly - and for now I believe them -

 that they have absolutely no plans to outlaw non-Clipper crypto in the US.

 But that doesn't mean that such plans wouldn't develop in the presence of

 some pending "emergency."  Then there is that White House briefing

 document, issued at the time Clipper was first announced, which asserts

 that no US citizen "as a matter of right, is entitled to an unbreakable

 commercial encryption product."



 Now why, if it's an ability they have no intention of contesting, do they

 feel compelled to declare that it's not a right? Could it be that they are

 preparing us for the laws they'll pass after some bearded fanatic has

 gotten himself a surplus nuke  and used something besides Clipper to

 conceal his plans for it?



 If they are thinking about such an eventuality, we should be doing so as

 well. How will we respond? I believe there is a strong, though currently

 untested, argument that outlawing unregulated crypto would violate the

 First Amendment, which surely  protects the manner of our speech as clearly

 as it protects the content.



 But of course the First Amendment is, like the rest of the Constitution,

 only as good as the government's willingness to uphold it. And they are, as

 I say, in the mood to protect our safety over our liberty.



 This is not a mind-frame against which any argument is going to be very

 effective. And it appeared that they had already heard and rejected every

 argument I could possibly offer.



 In fact, when I drew what I thought was an original comparison between

 their stand against naturally proliferating crypto and the folly of King

 Canute (who placed his throne on the beach and commanded the tide to leave

 him dry), my government  opposition looked pained and said he had heard

 that one almost as often as jokes about roadkill on the information

 superhighway.



 I hate to go to war with them. War is always nastier among friends.

 Furthermore, unless they've decided to let the National Security Agency

 design the rest of the National Information Infrastructure as well, we need

 to go on working closely with  them on the whole range of issues like

 access, competition, workplace privacy, common carriage, intellectual

 property, and such. Besides, the proliferation of strong crypto will

 probably happen eventually no matter what they do.



 But then again, it might not. In which case we could shortly find ourselves

 under a government that would have the automated ability to log the time,

 origin and recipient of every call we made, could track our physical

 whereabouts continuously,  could keep better account of our financial

 transactions than we do, and all without a warrant. Talk about crime

 prevention!



 Worse, under some vaguely defined and surely mutable "legal authority,"

 they also would be able to listen to our calls and read our e-mail without

 having to do any backyard rewiring. They wouldn't need any permission at

 all to monitor overseas calls.



 If there's going to be a fight, I'd rather it be with this government than

 the one we'd likely face on that hard day.



 Hey, I've never been a paranoid before. It's always seemed to me that most

 governments are too incompetent to keep a good plot strung together all the

 way from coffee break to quitting time. But I am now very nervous about the

 government of the  United States of America.



 Because Bill 'n' Al, whatever their other new-paradigm virtues, have

 allowed the very old-paradigm trogs of the Guardian Class to define as

 their highest duty the defense of America against an enemy that exists

 primarily in the imagination - and is  therefore capable of anything.



 To assure absolute safety against such an enemy, there is no limit to the

 liberties we will eventually be asked to sacrifice. And, with a Clipper

 Chip in every phone, there will certainly be no technical limit on their

 ability to enforce those  sacrifices.



 WHAT YOU CAN DO



 GET CONGRESS TO LIFT THE CRYPTO EMBARGO



 The administration is trying to impose Clipper on us by manipulating market

 forces. By purchasing massive numbers of Clipper devices, they intend to

 induce an economy of scale which will make them cheap while the export

 embargo renders all  competition either expensive or nonexistent.



 We have to use the market to fight back. While it's unlikely that they'll

 back down on Clipper deployment, the Electronic Frontier Foundation

 believes that with sufficient public involvement, we can get Congress to

 eliminate the export embargo.



 Rep. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, has a bill (H.R. 3627) before the

 Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee

 on Foreign Affairs that would do exactly that. She will need a lot of help

 from the public. They may not  care much about your privacy in DC, but they

 still care about your vote.



 Please signal your support of H.R. 3627, either by writing her directly or

 e-mailing her at cantwell@eff.org. Messages sent to that address will be

 printed out and delivered to her office. In the subject header of your

 message, please include the  words "support HR 3627." In the body of your

 message, express your reasons for supporting the bill. You may also express

 your sentiments to Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Indiana, the House Committee on

 Foreign Affairs chair, by e-mailing hamilton@eff.org.



 Furthermore, since there is nothing quite as powerful as a letter from a

 constituent, you should check the following list of subcommittee and

 committee members to see if your congressional representative is among

 them. If so, please copy them your  letter to Rep. Cantwell.



 > Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment Subcommittee:



 Democrats: Sam Gejdenson (Chair), D-Connecticut; James Oberstar, D-

 Minnesota; Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia; Maria Cantwell, D-Washington; Eric

 Fingerhut, D-Ohio; Albert R. Wynn, D-Maryland; Harry Johnston, D-Florida;

 Eliot Engel, D-New York; Charles Schumer, D-New York.



 Republicans: Toby Roth (ranking), R-Wisconsin; Donald Manzullo, R-Illinois;

 Doug Bereuter, R-Nebraska; Jan Meyers, R-Kansas; Cass Ballenger, R-North

 Carolina; Dana Rohrabacher, R-California.



 > House Committee on Foreign Affairs:



 Democrats: Lee Hamilton (Chair), D-Indiana; Tom Lantos, D-California;

 Robert Torricelli, D-New Jersey; Howard Berman, D-California; Gary

 Ackerman, D-New York; Eni Faleomavaega, D-Somoa; Matthew Martinez, D-

 California; Robert Borski, D-Pennsylvania;  Donal Payne, D-New Jersey;

 Robert Andrews, D-New Jersey; Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey; Sherrod Brown,

 D-Ohio; Alcee Hastings, D-Florida; Peter Deutsch, D-Florida; Don Edwards,

 D-California; Frank McCloskey, D-Indiana; Thomas Sawyer, D-Ohio; Luis

 Gutierrez, D-Illinois.



 Republicans: Benjamin Gilman (ranking), R-New York; William Goodling, R-

 Pennsylvania; Jim Leach, R-Iowa; Olympia Snowe, R-Maine; Henry Hyde, R-

 Illinois; Christopher Smith, R-New Jersey; Dan Burton, R-Indiana; Elton

 Gallegly, R-California; Ileana  Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida; David Levy, R-New

 York; Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Florida; Ed Royce, R-California.



 BOYCOTT CLIPPER DEVICES AND THE COMPANIES WHICH MAKE THEM.



 Don't buy anything with a Clipper Chip in it. Don't buy any product from a

 company that manufactures devices with Big Brother inside. It is likely

 that the government will ask you to use Clipper for communications with the

 IRS or when doing business  with federal agencies. They cannot, as yet,

 require you to do so. Just say no.



 LEARN ABOUT ENCRYPTION AND EXPLAIN THE ISSUES TO YOUR UNWIRED FRIENDS



 The administration is banking on the likelihood that this stuff is too

 technically obscure to agitate anyone but nerds like us. Prove them wrong

 by patiently explaining what's going on to all the people you know who have

 never touched a computer and  glaze over at the mention of words like

 "cryptography."



 Maybe you glaze over yourself. Don't. It's not that hard. For some hands-on

 experience, download a copy of PGP - Pretty Good Privacy - a shareware

 encryption engine which uses the robust RSA encryption algorithm. And learn

 to use it.



 GET YOUR COMPANY TO THINK ABOUT EMBEDDING REAL CRYPTOGRAPHY IN ITS PRODUCTS



 If you work for a company that makes software, computer hardware, or any

 kind of communications device, work from within to get them to incorporate

 RSA or some other strong encryption scheme into their products. If they say

 that they are afraid to  violate the export embargo, ask them to consider

 manufacturing such products overseas and importing them back into the

 United States. There appears to be no law against that. Yet.



 You might also lobby your company to join the Digital Privacy and Security

 Working Group, a coalition of companies and public interest groups -

 including IBM, Apple, Sun, Microsoft, and, interestingly, Clipper phone

 manufacturer AT&T - that is  working to get the embargo lifted.



 ENLIST!



 Self-serving as it sounds coming from me, you can do a lot to help by

 becoming a member of one of these organizations. In addition to giving you

 access to the latest information on this subject, every additional member

 strengthens our credibility  with Congress.



 > Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation by writing membership@eff.org.



 > Join Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility by e-mailing

 cpsr.info@cpsr



 .org. CPSR is also organizing a protest, to which you can lend your support

 by sending e-mail to clipper.petition@cpsr.org with "I oppose Clipper" in

 the message body. Ftp/gopher/WAIS to cpsr.org /cpsr/privacy/



 crypto/clipper for more info.



 In his LA speech, Gore called the development of the NII "a revolution."

 And it is a revolutionary war we are engaged in here. Clipper is a last

 ditch attempt by the United States, the last great power from the old

 Industrial Era, to establish  imperial control over cyberspace. If they

 win, the most liberating development in the history of humankind could

 become, instead, the surveillance system which will monitor our

 grandchildren's morality. We can be better ancestors than that.



 San Francisco, California



 Wednesday, February 9, 1994



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 John Perry Barlow (barlow@eff.org) is co-founder and Vice-Chairman of the

 Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group which defends liberty, both in

 Cyberspace and the Physical World. He has three daughters.





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                         NOTES FROM CYBERSPACE

                               VOLUME 3



 By Jonathan Yarden (jyarden@iglou.iglou.com)

 Subject: Mosaic on Digital Satellite System



 Anyone else out there getting a serious hard-on on the Digital Satellite

 System?  From what I have heard this puppy is doing IP via satellite.

 For that matter, I can't think of any other real way to do what it does.

 Here is a partial list of 'features:'



 1. The DSS system is designed to asychronously receive data.  Each DSS

 receiver has a unique ID allowing it to process packetized wide-band data

 (which in most cases is MPEG encoded video).  This happens *whenever* the

 unit is operational.



 2. The modem in the DSS receiver is for the sending of requests and

 receipt of data from a local or long distance 'service.' The majority of

 requests are for 'keys' to decode channels, but could also be used to send

 subscription requests for other services.



 3. There is a magnetic 'card' used to hold information about the types of

 services currently subscribed to by the DSS user.  The card is readable

 as well as writeable.



 THE BIG IDEA



 Knowing that data flow in Mosaic is almost 99% server to client, this

 opens up a rather fast way to do Mosaic.  For that matter, since most of

 the people who surf are just passing thru or getting data, this is a fast

 data pipe to just about anything.  The only catch would be that the

 sending speed would be maxed out at about 14.4kbps.  But, if you are on

 the client end of a 2GB FTP session, well you get the picture...



 2nd reason:



 According to TRACEROUTE (unix hamsters, try this at home...) CIX is

 basically 'metering' data traffic onto their routes.  First 16K goes real

 fast, then you hit the bottom of the process queue (sounds VAXen, doesn't

 it?) and it's the loser in a snail race.



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 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND MAIL TO YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS ASKING THEM

 IF THEY OFFER THEIR SYSTEM LOGS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES - ESPECIALLY IF

 YOU LIVE IN TEXAS.  ACTIONS SUCH AS THIS MAY BE A VIOLATION OF YOUR

 PRIVACY.  IF YOU DISCOVER THIS TO BE THE CASE, MAIL US!



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                        PORNOGRAPHY FOULS INTERNET



 By Paul Pihichyn (pihichyn@freepress.mb.ca)



 There is a river of slime in the gutters of the information highway

 and it's giving cyberspace a bad name.  The virtual community, it appears,

 has been invaded by the same scum that has slithered into the real

 communities across the land.  We're talking pornography, with a capital P,

 right there on the Internet.



 Maybe you caught the report on CNN last week about the Lawrence Livermore

 Laboratory in California.  It seems some sleezeball there had loaded several

 gigabytes of filth into a server that was connected to the Internet, and

 promptly made it available to all 20 million-plus 'Netsurfers.  It's

 probably not surprising that in a community of 20 million, you are going to

 find the same sad mix that you will find in the general population.  But,

 somehow, I though the Internet would attract a better class of humanity.



 Nevertheless, the Internet has become the largest and most accessable source

 of pornographic material on the planet - and the real danger is it's

 accessible to anyone with a PC and modem, even to children.



 Journalist Erik Lacitis (elak.news@times.com) said it best recently in the

 Seattle times: "... has there ever been a bigger collection of mean-

 spirited, emotionally-deficient, just plain-weird, and mostly utterly

 boring people?"  He prefaced the remark by saying he was taking a vacation

 from the Internet and going back to the real world. Actually, it would make

 more sense for those 'Net-bound weirdos to be taking a reality check.



 Hiding behind their cloak of anonymity, these folks hurl hateful insults at

 those with whom they disagree or feel they can bully by virtue of their

 perceived superior knowledge of the nooks and crannies of the Internet.

 It is on the Usenet that these really dumb things often take place. Now tell

 me, does the world really need a forum called alt.sex.pictures.female,

 or alt.sex.bondage?  Or maybe just plain old alt.sex? I think not.



 The crap on these forums is pretty crude.  Obscene by many community

 standards.  And also pretty silly.  Racy stories written by pimply-faced

 adolescent boys pretending to be ravishingly over-sexed and under-loved

 young women is hardly the stuff on which to build a world-wide information

 superhighway.



 Remember, the Internet is a network of networks, each linked through a host

 site - often a university or some other educational facility.  Some of these

 host sites have taken steps to clean up their little corner of the Internet.



 Troll Usenet through the server at the University of Manitoba, and you won't

 find the newsgroups alt.sex.pictures.female, or alt.sex.bondage.

 The U of M, along with several other Internet providers, has denied its

 users access to some of the more blatantly pornographic newsgroups. Though

 some people may complain that this is censorship, an infringement on the

 freedom of the Internet, I take my hat off to those who made the decision

 to try to keep the Internet decent place to work and play.



 There have been incidents reported of Internet users actually being stalked,

 electronically, by some of the weirder weirdoes out there.  The really scary

 part is that some of the cyberstalkers have actually slithered into the real

 world and attempted face-to-face encounters.



 The 'Net anonymity also give a lot of jerks a chance to be mean.  If there

 is a crude remark that has ever been made about women, you'll find it posted

 on the 'Net.  It seems, as Lacitis wrote, the Internet is populated with

 men who never grew up.



 Big as it is, the Internet is still in its infancy.  It will take time to

 gain some maturity, to find a way to weed out the cretins and perverts.

 Once you get around the crud on the Internet, you will find it a wonderful

 place to learn, work and do business.



 By Paul Pihichyn, pihichyn@freepress.mb.ca



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                    SECURITY / COAST FTP archive on-line



                  Announcing the COAST Security FTP Archive!



 The COAST group at Purdue are happy to (finally) announce the

 availability of our security archive.  The archive is currently

 available via FTP, with extensions to gopher and WWW planned soon.



 The archive currently contains software, standards, tools, and other

 material in the following areas:



     * access control

     * artificial life

     * authentication

     * criminal investigation

     * cryptography

     * e-mail privacy enhancement

     * firewalls

     * formal methods

     * general guidelines

     * genetic algorithms

     * incident response

     * institutional policies

     * intrusion detection

     * law & ethics

     * malware (viruses, worms, etc)

     * network security

     * password systems

     * policies

     * privacy

     * risk assessment

     * security related equipment

     * security tools

     * social impacts

     * software forensics

     * software maintenance

     * standards

     * technical tips

     * the computer underground



 The collection also contains a large set of site "mirrors" of

 interesting collections, many of which are linked by topic to the rest

 of the archive.



 You can connect to the archive using standard ftp to

 "coast.cs.purdue.edu".   Information about the archive structure and

 contents is present in "/pub/aux"; we encourage users to look there,

 and to read the README* files located in the various directories.



 If you know of material you think should be added, please send mail to

 security-archive@cs.purdue.edu and tell us what you have and where we

 can get a copy. In order of preference, we would prefer to get:



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   -- a uuencoded tar file

   -- a shar file

   -- a diskette or QIC tape



 If you are providing software, we encourage you to "sign" the software

 with PGP to produce a standalone signature file.  This will help to

 ensure against trojaned versions of the software finding their way

 into the archive.



 Any comments or suggestions about the archive should be directed to

 "security-archive@cs.purdue.edu" -- please let us know what you think!



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                     ON THE SUBJECT OF CYBERCULTURE



 By George Phillips (ice9@fennec.com)



 I hate to be an asshole, but my friends will tell you I'm pretty good at it.

 I usually try to keep an open mind about a lot of things, but some things

 just get under my skin.  Today, it's this damn cyberculture thingy! I

 thought the hype was subsiding, but now it seems to have sprouted back up

 like a festering pustule on the mouths of everyone.  Let's just ask the

 question: What is cyberculture?  Is it some coffee-shop hallucination

 romance dreamed up by some art-school boy with no social outlet? Is it some

 third-rate term developed by the editors of certain magazines to justify

 their existance? Was it created from a desperate attempt at giving a name to

 people who just don't fit in? ...or is there something real to all this

 fantasy? Let's take a closer look.



 I went out and looked for anything "cyber." Magazines, books, people, places,

 clothes, and things. I started out by picking up a magazine called

 "Mondo-2000".  I'm sure I heard somewhere that this was a "cyber-oriented"

 magazine. The cover art did nothing for me as far as helping define what

 "cyber" was. After a time, I quickly realized that this magazine caters to

 junior/highschool children with Nintendos and acne.  I saw nothing "cyber"

 about it.  In fact, I really saw no real culture. Sure it had art, music,

 graphics, features, etc...but doesn't every magazine? What is keeping me

 from calling Time or Newsweek "Cyber-mags"? Could it be?  Is "cyber" just

 another buzz-word like "virtual?"  No!



 William Gibson writes about people in the future accessing a matrix called

 cyberspace.  This is the "virtual" area between computer systems.  No doubt

 one can see the parallels between his matrix and our Internet.  But is this

 all there is to it?  No.  There are people called "cyberpunks" that access

 this matrix and exploit it to their own ends.  These are very good books, by

 the way.  I enjoyed reading them.  There has got to be a parallel between

 his cyberpunks and the hackers of today. Although the books are excellent,

 I have yet to see what "Cyber-Culture" is.  (Hearing theme song from

 Jeopardy in my head...)



 Billy Idol recorded an album called CyberPunk. Chained to my chair and

 threatened with death if I did not listen to this "K-Rad" CD, I formed the

 opinion that Billy Idol has too much free time on his hands. The makeup of

 this album has absolutely nothing to do with the title, or subjects in any

 William Gibson book.  Thats not to say its not a good album.  I'm sure there

 are many out there who like his work, but as far as my quest was concerned,

 this was a dead end.  I just don't comprehend the reasoning behind such

 a venture.



 Exhausted with my household search for the eternal answer, I decided to

 hit the streets and find some real, live, cyber-people. I heard that this

 culture usually hangs out in clubs or raves that play loud alternative

 industrial dance music.  I found a couple places like that in Houston and

 Austin, so I decided to give it a try.  I chose a club in Houston, Texas.

 The lights were hypnotic.  The smart-drinks were flowing. The people were

 dancing and zoning on the special effects of the club.  I picked out the

 most "cyber-looking" people I could find.  I knew what to look for because I

 just recently picked through a Mondo-2000 magazine to see what their be-all

 end-all definition of a cyber-person was.  These people could barely figure

 out how to turn on a computer!  How could they call themselves "cyber?"

 Am I wrong when I say that the whole term "Cyber" has at least SOMETHING to

 do with computers? Needless to say, I was rather disappointed in the

 ignorance of these lifeless wanna-bees and misled by all of the advertising

 of this ever-elusive "Cyber-Culture". Color me confused.



 Well, I figured that if anyone knew about "Cyber-Culture," it would have to

 be the computer underground.  This is supposed to be one of the smartest,

 most alternitive, techno-literate group around. There was a convention going

 on in Las Vegas called DefCon II. Played-up to be one of the largest

 gatherings of computer underground enthusiasts, I had to go. Although it is

 sad that this term "Cyber", while used so widely today, is hard to define.

 I am sad that I had to go to Las Vegas to find "Cyber"...if it was even

 there.



 This was obviously a place where "cyber-culture" came together!  I decided

 to attend and look around.  What I found was a large group of people

 drinking, smoking, viewing porn and talking about the latest security holes.

 These people were nothing like the people in Mondo-2000 or any other

 Cyber-rags.  Where was their strange, multi-color clothing?  So this is

 cyber-culture?



 I hit a few coffee shops, followed a group that I would bet that I saw in

 Mondo, tried psudo-virtual-reality hangouts, tried their smart drinks,

 smoked their tobacco, attempted being "trendy", and contemplated art

 in the most cyber-sense. My return: ZIP! NADA! NOTHING!



 From all of my travels and studies, I came up with a few theories.  Although

 possibly distorted, I feel they are, for the most part true.



 Cyberculture is:



  1) A bunch of burn-outs in a coffee shop, reading trendy "alternative"                              magazines, analyzing "alternative" music, and going to raves.



  2) A bunch of kids doing large amounts of drugs, drinking smart-drinks,

     wearing flanel, attending "alternative" concerts like Woodstock '94

     hopelessly babbling on about topics that they know nothing about.



  3) Cigarettes and alcohol.



 I find none of these interesting and frankly, I don't see whats so damn

 fascinating about them! ...and still cannot determine why it is called

 "Cyber".  I am getting to hate this term more each time I have to write or

 say it...because it means NOTHING!



 So, if anyone finds "Mr. or Ms. Cyber" please let me know. I am not claiming

 to be a know-it-all, but when the press, the public, and society in general

 latches on to a term which evidently globally-defines a people or attitude,

 and THEN rams it down my throat on the front page of the newspaper and on

 the six o' clock news, I have the RIGHT to know what in the hell it means.



 Have a virtual-cyber-underground-mondo-networkable-fiber-opticable day!



 Alternative viewpoints are not welcome because this is my cyber-column.

 Get your own! Take a pill and get a life.



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                           A COMMENT ON CLIPPER



 By Azrael (reinoa@ccaix3.unican.es)



 Greetings to all fellow cyberpunks, hackers, modem enthusiasts,

 programmers, viri-coders, civil-rights activists, anarchists, crypto-

 mathematicians and all.



 The echoes of the Clipper polemics are heard even here in Spain, mainly

 thru a distorted view given by the pre-net mass media, and the very few

 people hooked to some kind of comms net.



 The way I see it, it is NOT that awful that the government of the USA is

 trying (in its best tradition) to limit liberty and privacy through the

 implantation of mandatory 'crippled' encryption or 'key escrows' or

 secure-phones or what have you. Remember the good old theory of the shield

 and the sword. If there is no enemy, there is no battle, and if there's

 no battle, there's no point in hacking, anarchism, sabotage, and public

 opinion campaigns. If there's no threat to our freedom or privacy, our

 skills will decay, weaken, and we'll submit in the end to the exigences

 of those in power.



 Security in computer systems should be improved upon, so that hackers have

 to keep up to it. Anti-virus packages have to get better, so that virus

 makers develop new techniques. In the same way, threatened privacy in

 electronic communications will be an incentive for enterprising people

 to create new methods of avoiding eavesdropping, by the development of

 new, better and faster cryptographic algorithms.



 As long as we keep 'en garde', they can't beat us. They just can't. But

 if they leave us alone for a time, we'll grow in pride and self-confidence

 and a false sense of security, while they have time to re-arm. In that

 way, they'll have us in the end.



 Fight the power! (and be glad you need to)



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                   SEX, THE INTERNET AND THE IDIOTS



 By K.K. Campbell (eye@io.org)



 There are two breeds of moron attracted to the Internet's relation to sex

 -- reporters and wankers. These categories may overlap, but that's beside

 the point.



 Canadian newsmedia owe a great deal of Internet education to Judge Francis

 Kovacs and his infamous Karla Homolka trial publication ban. That elevated

 the Internet to headline material. It is humorous to watch reporters/

 editors grope for net.literacy.



 Talk with Justin Wells (stem@sizone.pci.on.ca) and Ken Chasse

 (root@sizone.pci.on.ca), the chaps who created alt.fan.karla-homolka as a

 lark, then found themselves hounded by reporters asking for "banned

 information, please." Or check out The Star's early stories, where Usenet

 newsgroups are called "computer billboards" -- whatever the hell those are.



                             MEDIA MORONS



 Mainstream journalists without a rallying issue like a trial ban invariably

 end up with nothing better to do then bang the drum about the 3 Ps:

 pedophilia, piracy and pornography.



 Take the recent Internet "child molesters" silliness. Some teen somewhere

 is enticed into sex with an adult -- through America On Line, not the

 Internet -- and we have an "epidemic." Chicago's Harlan Wallach

 (wallach@mcs.com) reported in alt.internet.media-coverage how some dink

 named James Coates wrote a column for the July 15 Chicago Tribune called

 "Beware cybercreeps lurking on the Internet."  True enough. But Coates'

 purpose is to frighten the middle class with some probably made-up story

 about "Vito," who cruises the net hoping "to have sex with children in

 wheelchairs."



 I understand Coates' pain. I can't spend 10 minutes in Internet Relay Chat

 (IRC) before someone asks if I'm a child in a wheelchair looking for a sex

 partner. Wallach told eye Coates has been going like this for months now --

 "a master at work."



 Couple of weeks ago, California nuclear research facility Lawrence

 Livermore Labs discovered one computer held some dirty pictures. An employee

 gave away a password. Someone used that access to store the images. People

 could connect and get them. Nothing was hacked. Big deal.



 But on July 13, CNN reporter Don Knapp swooped in to whip up

 hysteria. Doom was clearly imminent.



 "Computer security specialists were surprised to find what may be the

 largest computer collection ever of hardcore pornography at the nation's

 top nuclear weapons and research laboratory," Knapp intoned ominously.

 Almost 2000 megs! Gol-ly! (Incidentally, 99 per cent of it was individual

 shots of nude/semi-nude women, no sexually explicit acts. Playboy stuff.)



 CNN rang Wired magazine writer Brian Behlendorf (brian@wired.com) and woke

 him at home, excited about "a big break-in at Laurence Livermore." Hackers

 and porno! If CNN was lucky, the hacker was a child molester. Behlendorf

 consented to an interview. CNN immediately asked him to "find some pictures

 of naked women on the Net for us." Behlendorf recounted the incident: "I

 really wasn't interested in doing that. I don't know of any FSP/FTP sites

 off hand anyways, and really didn't want to be associated with pictures of

 NEKKID GRRLS."*



 But amiable Behlendorf slid over to alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels and

 grabbed a picture of a model in a swimsuit. He also picked up a landscape,

 a race car and a Beatles album cover "to show that other images get sent

 over Usenet as  well," naively thinking this point would be made -- though

 he stresses he by no means condones distributing copyrighted images,

 "clean" or otherwise. Behlendorf was then made to sit beside a terminal

 displaying Ms String-Bikini throughout all his comments. "They made me keep

 returning to that  damn bikini image ... over and over."



 But intrepid reporter Don Knapp assured us all is well -- for now.

 "Spokespeople for the national laboratories insist that at no time were the

 pornographers, nor the software pirates, able to cross over from the

 research network into the classified network. The labs say that, while they

 are embarrassed, national security was not breached."



 Whew.



               YOU'RE GETTING VERY STUP- ERR, SLEEPY...



 Then you have regular net.wankers. Whoever said, "Never underestimate the

 intelligence of the American public," must read alt.sex.* newsgroups.



 For instance, the charismatic Aabid (aabid@elm.circa.ufl.edu) wrote a

 touching post called "I would like an enema myself!" to newsgroup sci.chem

 (science: chemistry). "Looking for a Middle Eastern M or F to help me with

 my enema desires. If you can be of assistance please email me." Readers of

 sci.chem were very intrigued and Aabid has made many interesting new

 friends.



 The greatest example of alt.sex stupidity is: The Hypnosis Program.



 As a joke, Indiana's Steve Salter (ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) posted to

 alt.sex.stories that he had a "hypnosis program" -- which you cleverly slip

 onto another person's computer where it will so mesmerize the unsuspecting

 target, he/she becomes your SEXUAL PLAYTHING, BENDING TO YOUR EVERY WHIM!

 For weeks after, global village idiots pestered him for copies.



 "I must have received over a hundred requests via private email or in

 alt.sex.stories for a copy of the program," Salter told eye. He had to

 publicly post a reply to stem the tide: "No offense, but get a rather

 large clue. There is no such animal. That was a joke. I thought it was

 obvious. How many people out there really want to hypnotize someone

 secretly? What the fuck is wrong with all of you?! What age group are

 we dealing with here? There is no such program!!! Sheesh..."



 Personally, I'm in agreement with David Romm

 (71443.1447@compuserve.com) who wrote: "I really liked the hypnosis

 program. It was much better than Cats."



                          MASSAGE MY MEDIUM



 To get your own porn, there are lots of sites. Ask for the latest in

 the alt.sex groups. Check out alt.binaries.pictures.erotica to grab a

 few images. For text erotica, read in alt.sex.stories .



 If you can't access alt.sex groups because, say, your university is run by

 prudes, write (ahem) "Hot Stuff" (anon1ea3@nyx10.cs.du.edu) for details

 about his mail-server. He makes available hundreds of stories. We at eye

 have yet to sample this collection but are intrigued by two items: "Perils

 of Red Tape," which we assume reveals the lust-riddled world of civil

 service, and "Tales from the Network," the story of lonely boys sitting

 around Friday nights fingering their groins in IRC, praying someone with a

 female-sounding alias drops by.





 * FootNote: NEKKID GRRLS is idiomatic fresh-off-the-BBS net.wanker-

   speak. This language can be learned by hanging around newsgroups

   like alt.2600 . To convince others you are a deadly cool net.cruiser,

   write: "HEY, elite pir-8 d00ds! I got more NEKKID GRRLS philes than

   ANY OF U!!!! And U censorship loosers can SUCK MY DICK!!!!!" Send it

   to alt.sex . Make sure to cross-post to the comp.sys.ibm.* hierarchy

   because PCs are the most common computer and you will reach a wider

   audience. If you can manage it, post through an anonymous account

   and leave your personal signature with real address in the text of

   the message.



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                          JAUC For Windows Project

                       SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY RELEASE





 By Scott Davis (dfox@fc.net)



 The development team at Fennec Information systems is currently working on

 a project called "JAUC for Windows".  This software will be a large

 Windows-based help file with ALL the issues of The Journal Of American

 Underground Computing, Editor's page with tons of info on the editorial

 staff, as well as a LOT of other information regarding the Internet...

 all accessible with the click of a mouse in Windows. The scheduled release

 date for this piece of software is sometime in January. A furious effort

 is underway to provide you with this file as soon as possible. You will be

 required to have Windows 3.0, 3.1, or some other Windows-based product.

 It will work with Windows For Workgroups, NT, Chicago, Daytona, etc...

 The file will be available for FTP from TWO sites on the Internet. Those

 sites will more than likely be FC.NET and ETEXT.ARCHIVE.UMICH.EDU.

 You will be sent a small note (if you are on our mailing list) when this

 product becomes available. At this time, the only method of distribution

 is FTP. We are working on other ways to get this out. We will update you.

 If you have any questions regarding this product, please mail:



 jauc-win@fennec.com



 You will be mailed any updates automatically.



 Editor.



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                        NBC's ANTI-NET CAMPAIGN



 By Alaric (Alaric@f111.n106.z1.fidonet.org)



 A most heinous act of info-terrorism has beem committed against the net

 community by "Dateline", NBC's pseudo-news propaganda ministry.



 To further the government's need to destroy the haven of free speech known

 as cyberspace, NBC has successfully deluded much of their reactionary

 brain-dead audience into beleiving that NETWORKS ARE DANGEROUS - BBS's ARE

 CRIMINAL.  Something must be done!  (Something will be done - read on...)



 The September 1 episode of Dateline paraded adventursome youths who had

 lost the occasional finger while honing their pyrotechnical skills with

 anarcho-terrorist data gleaned from BBSs and the net.  Forrest "Goebbels"

 Sawyer whined that the young and restless data-seekers of the 90's have easy

 access to exciting netware titles such as "Bomb Making For Fun and Profit"

 and "Anarchist's Cookbook" with no governmental interference of any kind!

 The existence of such networks and their accessibility by Gen-X misfits

 poses a clear and present danger to the national security of the United

 States.



 You may recall the first such attempt at an anti-net freedom propaganda

 campaign failed miserably and was aborted.  Not enough concerned citizens

 fell for the ruse of nets being an unfettered sanctuary for child porn

 mongers, NAMBLA dating services and wily molesters.  Since the first trial

 balloon was floated and quickly transpired, Plan-B has been put into action.

 Let's see how many suckers will fall for this one, "Computer networks are

 a dangerous source of subversive terrorist information and the children

 must be protected." (Janet Reno was conspicuously absent from said

 broadcast)



 A CongressMan-ic Oppresive named Ed Markey (Dem. Mass 7th Dist) is trying

 to hold hearings on the dangers of computer networking and supposedly try

 to draft some legislation that would allow the governmnet to regulate the

 nets or BBSs.  Undoubtedly the legislation if passed will have a chilling

 effect on net traffic, which frankly is getting way out of hand if you ask

 any bureaucrat with something to hide. Severe penalties will be brought

 against any sysop who allows minors to access anything that might be

 contrued as dangerous.  No doubt this definition will eventually receive

 a broad enough interpretation to forbid instructions on the manufacture of

 smoke bombs, casting of all lead ammunition, cleaning a .22 rifle, and even

 slingshot repair.  The true goal of such legislation of course is not to

 "protect the children", but to stifle the grassroots organizing of anti-

 statist groups and to squash the tide of truth that is flooding cyberspace

 and often embarrassing government and corporate interests.



 Look for a "Child Protection Act" subtitled "concerning minors' access to

 dangerous information" to come before Congress within 18 months.  Sysops

 will become responsible for what information gets to whom and what they do

 with it, regardless of the diligence they show in keeping the nets safe.

 Disclaimers and signed age statements will no longer suffice.  You WILL be

 responsible for the information travelling though your board or newsgroup

 and you WILL be held accountable.



 Is the Pen more Powerful than the Sword?  This question may never be

 answered fully, so why not hold on to both?  Yet the propaganda forces and

 strong arm tactics forces that managed to squeak by the ban on assault

 swords will now be unleashed on the modern-day pamphleteers of the net.

 Al Gore wants to build a kinder and gentler super-information tollroad to

 keep your pens in line.



 Netters will be able to mount a powerful counter-attack that will surprise

 the hell out of Big Brother and Little Rock Sister.  Notify Rep. Markey that

 we are watching and ready to fight.  Fax-blast his office.  Dig into his

 dirt and spread liberally.  Likewise show NBC that we are listening. Reach

 out and touch these folks as follows:



 dateline@news.nbc.com



 Representative Edward J. Markey (D-7th)

 Malden, MA

 Office phone (in DC):  202-225-2836

 Energy and Commerce



 Markey is the Chairman of the subcomittee on

 Telecommunications and Finance - under Energy and Commerce

 202-226-2424  subcommitee phone

 202-226-2447  subcommitee fax



 This post should be crossposted and distributed.



 "They can have my net access when they pry the 486 from my

 dead, carpel tunnel syndrome-infested hands."



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                  CYBERSPACE, MIAMI, CHAOS, AND CLINTON

                        THE MIAMI DEVICE PROJECT



 By Marty Cyber (cyb@gate.net)



 From December 8-11, 1994, Prez Clinton and Veep Gore, the Administration's

 point-man on the Infobahn will be coming to Miami to host the 35

 democratically elected heads of government of every country in the Western

 Hemisphere from Canada to Tierra del Fuego.



 The event is called the Summit of The Americas, and you folks who read Wired

 and ARE wired should plug into this event via the Internet and via any other

 bit-radiation-receiver-transmitter-device you have access too.  I'd like to

 get your ideas on how Cyberspace and Cybertech could help make the Summit a

 success from the point-of-view of telecomm and info-technologies --- in a

 word, to try to begin building and operating a Global Brain and Nervous

 System for Planet Earth that can help us all in private, public, academic

 and community sectors use Cyberspace to create some kind of movement toward

 a New World Order out of the Chaos and Complexity we are now trying to surf

 on, without a truly functional "cybersurfboard."



 I'm attaching a couple of files that could stimulate some interesting

 exchanges --- and hoping to get the likes of Negroponte, Kelly, Kapor,

 Fields, Minsky, Schank, Bruckman, Clinton, Gore, Mesarovich, Forrester,

 Shannon, Wiener, Prigogine, Crowley, Castro, Mas Canosa, Irving,

 Brown, Chiles, Cuomo, Tyson, Simon, Beer, Gleick, --- and YOU ---

 to all kick in some ideas on how to use the Miami Summit as a kickoff

 environment for launching a World Summit on The Future via Cyberspace.





 Do give me some "negative feedback," as the cyberneticians have been known

 to say.



 And if any of you would like to warm your cybernetic buns in Miami in

 December --- real buns or virtual buns --- give me some "bit-radiations."

 I've got an Art Deco apartment building in the heart of Miami Beach's

 cyberhip South Beach, and might be able to put you up.



 Clinton's awareness of, and ability to use, the Principles of Chaos,

 Complexity, Cybernetics and other modern organizational management and

 learning techniques may be decisive in determining if his Administration

 is able to create a New World Order on the Edge of the Current Turbulent

 ORDER/CHAOS Meridian.



 Unfortunately, day-to-day decisiomaking and policy selection in the White

 House frequently has so much noise injected on its channels from Whitewater,

 Senator Damato-type ignoramus-based partisan-politics, that serious policy

 problems like Cuba, and other Foreign, Domestic and Economic matters tend

 toward more chaotic and less orderly states.



 What the White House could use --- perhaps initially placed within its

 Office of Science and Technology Policy --- is a National Cybernetics

 Council.  This group would consist of the nation and the world's specialists

 in Complex Systems Theory, Chaos, Cybernetics, Cyberspace, and a new field

 which integrates all of the above: CYBERTECTURE: The design, construction,

 and operation of "cybernetic systems" for government, business, education

 and city-planning.



 Pete Nelson is correct in suggesting that we need politicians and polities

 that can "embrace change, uncertainty, paradox and contradiction," but we

 also must equip the public, private, academic and community sectors of

 American (and World) Society to deal with this new level of complexity.



 In December, if current White House plans stay in place, President Clinton

 and VP Al Gore, Clinton's point-man in advancing his Administration's high-

 level policy objective of building a National and Global Information

 Infrastructure (NII/GII) --- the highly publicized "Information Superhighway"

 --- both of American Government's top-managers will travel to Miami to host

 the Summit of The Americas December 8-11, 1994.



 Although the primary agenda topics for all the invited democratically elected

 leaders of every coutry in the Western Hemisphere from Canada to the southern

 tip of Latin America will be Economic Integration, Democratic Political

 Systems, and extending NAFTA into WHFTA (a Western Hemisperhic Free Trade

 Agreement), and important sub-topic will be infrastructure -- especially

 Telecommunications and Information Infratructure.



 With "the Cybertecture of Cybersystems, policy makers and their politiescan

 steer through the current chaotic turbulences of today into a new, and

 hopefully better, world order of tomorrow.



 Clinton and Gore, with the proper cybertools, may be just what the world

 needs now.  Our non-profit consulting partnership in Miami Beach, "The MIAMI

 DEVICE PROJECT/RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP, has developed a concept-

 paper for this December Summit of the Americas that could help Clinton, and

 the rest of use, develop and use the cybersystems we need to steer into our

 21st Century Future.



 The following text is a summary of our first draft of the Miami Device

 Project concept.  We'd appreciate your feedback, comments, critiques, and

 suggestions on how to create a World Summit on The Future during December

 1994 and January 1995 on the Internet and other related media such as print,

 broadcast, multimedia, and face-to-face conferences.  Also broadening the

 audiences for the work of the Santa Fe Institute, Bill Gleick, Ilya

 Prigogine, Mitchell Waldrop, and the other leading theorists and

 practitioners of Chaos/Complexity theory, and related researchers in

 Cybernetics and Management of Large Organizations, such as Barry Clemson,

 Jay Forrester, Stafford Beer, Mike Mesarovic, and the related work at US

 Government Research Labs as well as the great industrial research labs at

 IBM and ATT, could also bring the power of science to the problems of public

 policy and decision-making.





                    THE MIAMI DEVICE PROJECT:

             AN AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL MISSION-QUEST

                        FOR CYBERSPACE



 Something important, chaotic and with a hidden sense of latent order is

 happening in Cyberspace and Real-Space.



 Nobody who is honest can say they truly know, see, can predict or control

 what is happening  with The Net, also known as:



 THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.

 THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE.

 THE GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE.

 THE INFO BAHN.

 THE ELECTRONIC/DIGITAL SUPERHIGHWAY.

 CYBERSPACE.



 America and The World need models, mavens, moxie, methodologies and, last

 but not least, money --- to design, build, test, market and operate the

 National and Global Information Infrastructures.  But most of all, the

 emerging Cyberspace Industry will need multimedia forums and discourse,

 even face-to-face conferences, that will clarify and shape the complex and

 relevant issues we must deal with as we enter the on-ramps to the Info

 Superhighway, and try to avoid the "road-kills" of entities both corporate

 and ideational that took the wrong turns.  These forums and discourses may

 turn out to be the second most important set of discussions since the

 founding of the United States in 1776 in the shaping and shaping of America

 and the World as we approach the 21st Century.  Adding to the complexity

 of the discussions about Cybernetic-Cyberspace technologies, applications

 and markets will be the fact that we will be using these ver same networks

 to discuss and develop their evolution  ---- hopefully a democratic exchange

 of views from the many stakeholders and users of the Net who will design and

 live in the rapidly evolving civilization, societies and communities

 (virtual and real) that will be spawned by CyberTech, and the cultural,

 economic, political and community structures Cyberspace will enable.



 Cyberspace represents a new and irresistible era in the evolution of human

 culture and business under the sign of technology --- but what is turyly

 wonderful is that we still have the opportunity to shape the application of

 Cybertech toward an Age of Utopia rather than Dystopia.



 What is being born and can be shaped by discussion and effort is something

 that every normal child or animal possesses at birth, but has never fully

 existed intact over the entire face of the planet:



 A BRAIN FOR PLANET EARTH; A GLOBAL CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

 A WORLD-WIDE SENSE AND PARTICIPATION IN A GLOBAL COMMUNITY;

 A CYBERNETIC CITY.



 The relevant discourses and forums must rationally and humanely deal with

 all the relevant issues connected with the new cybertechnologies and

 cybermedia --- and they are too important to the future of the planet to be

 left in the hands of government, business or universities alone.  The

 community and the public but get informed and stay involved with the

 evolution of  the Net.



 We have termed this multi-dimensional quest and process



 THE MIAMI DEVICE PROJECT TOWARD PARADISE REGAINED ---

 FOR GREATER MIAMI BEACH, SOUTH FLORIDA, AND THE

 WORLD-CLASS CITIES, CITIZENS, & NATIONS OF THE FUTURE.



 Why Miami?  Why not Cambridge, or New York, or Chicago, or Los Angeles,

 or Milan, or Berlin or Paris London or Tokyo?



 In the history of the planet over the ages, from the time humankind first

 emerged from the primordial ooze, there have always been a succession of

 great city-regions that entered the world stage as truly world-class,

 international and cosmopolitan centers of trade, culture, education,

 technolgy, finance, transportation, and concentration of talent, dreams,

 wheels and deals.



 Just as the Central Florida region around Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy

 Space Center identified itself as America and the World's launch-pad and

 testbed for Aerospace, so is the Greater Miami Beach and South Florida

 region of the Sunshine State begun it movement toward center-stage as the

 nation and the planet's laboratory and test-bed for mankind's thrust into

 the truly Final and Next Frontier: Cyberspace.



 The Greater Miami Beach/South Florida region of 4 million, supported by a

 unique partnership of its private, public, academic and community sectors

 called The Miami Device Project, has been selected by the Clinton

 Administration to host in our region in December of 1994 the first, Western

 Hemisphere-Latin American Summit Conference, to be led by President

 Clinton and Vice-President Gore themselves.



 Greater Miami Beach's strategic geographic location and tropical, earthquake-

 free (though occasionally hurricane-prone) has positioned the region as an

 international gateway to not only Latin America and The Caribbean, but to

 Europe, Asia, and North America, also.  A great airport .... the world's

 largest cruise-ship port and one of the most active seaports ... and coming

 soon, the world's first Cyberport-Teleport-Cyberspaceport ... a laboratory

 and crucible where the model Cybernetic City of The Future will be forged.



 Greater Miami Beach and it's multimedia links and partnerships with other

 sister cities, states, and nations intends to do for the science, art and

 business of cybernetic computer communications something similar, but much

 more benevolent for humanity, what the Manhattan Project did during World

 War II with the technology of thermonuclear energy, from which the atomic

 bomb was created.



 BUT THERE WILL BE A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE IN MISSION AND VISION IN THE MIAMI

 DEVICE PROJECT AS OPPOSED TO THE MANHATTAN PROJECT:  The Miami Device

 Project's focus is to create and to provide universal access to knowledge

 tools and multimedia information systems for the human community, in both

 America and world-wide --- and to help design, build and sustain a truly

 Global Village and Cybernetic City where art, science, philosophy,

 technology and business can provide the human spirit with the lift of a

 driving dream into the 21st Century --- a Cybernetic Century of peace,

 prosperity and co-evolution for man, his systems, and our children.





 Norbert Wiener, the MIT professor of mathematics and inventor of the word

 and field of cybernetics, once commented in his book, "cybernetics and

 Society: the Human Use of Human Beings:" Mankind and society can only be

 truly understood by a study of the messages they transmit; in the future,

 messages between man and man, man and machine, and machine and machine

 will play an increasingly important role."



 If children can be considered messages we send to a future we may never see

 ourselves, the human children of our loins will themselves create new

 futures with the children of our minds --- our systems, networks and

 knowledge bases --- as humanity leaps toward the stars in our inner and

 outer universes.



 A First Draft on April 22, 1994, Friday Night,

 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA --- by Marty Cyber.



 (PS: Lab space and residential space grants are available in beautiful,

 sunny South Miami Beach's Art Deco District, where Miami Device is

 attempting to create a Science Deco District. if you cyberesearchers in

 Boston, New York, Washington or beyond are seeking weather-friendlier

 climates in December and afterwards, give me a call, e-mail, or letter

 outlining your own research interests and comments about the  MDP Project.



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 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND MAIL TO YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS ASKING THEM

 IF THEY OFFER THEIR SYSTEM LOGS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES - ESPECIALLY IF

 YOU LIVE IN TEXAS.  ACTIONS SUCH AS THIS MAY BE A VIOLATION OF YOUR

 PRIVACY.  IF YOU DISCOVER THIS TO BE THE CASE, MAIL US!



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                               CYBERSELL (TM)



 From Michael Ege (Michael_Ege@designlink.com)



 [Editor's Note: I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA why someone who, in my opinion,

 misused the net, disregarded the complaining of others, and vowed to

 do it again, gets off dictating their new-found policy to us. They

 evidently want this to be written in stone.  I think the rules below

 are good...and have been obeyed for decades by those with any tact!

 Evidently, the "Green Card Spammers" are just now getting a clue

 and want to take credit for ethics that already exist.  Get a

 life MARTHA!  -Ed.]



 Contact: Martha Siegel

 Cybersell(tm)

 602/661-5202



 SUGGESTED INTERNET COMMERCIAL SPEECH GUIDELINES



 Explanatory Preface



 The Internet is the most powerful communication tool in the world, today

 and for the forseeable future. Recently the circulation of an advertisement

 by two lawyers for their legal services raised tremendous controversy as to

 the manner and location that ads should be placed on the Internet.



 Two years ago the National Science Foundation lifted the ban on Internet

 advertisements that they had previously imposed. Yet, the idea of

 commercialism an advertising in this increasingly pervasive medium is still

 controversial. The primary anti-ad forces can be found among the academics

 and technical workers who were the early residents of the Internet. Where

 advertising is an integral part of other mediums, this highly vocal faction

 is attempting, not without some success, publicly to characterize

 advertisers as inferior to others who supply information via computer.



 While the ad critics do not speak with a single voice, but rather express a

 diversity of opinions, several elements emerge with some consistency.

 First, there is an overall presumption that advertising is unwanted and

 useless.  Even though those who who have made the pioneering forays into

 Internet advertising have met with financial  success (proving that

 advertising messages are indeed accepted) the vocal minority continues to

 insist otherwise. Based on this faulty premises advertisers are told that

 custom demands that they approach customers only in an indirect manner.

 Specifically, advertisers are told that it is apropriate to to places ads

 only on channels set aside to carry nothing but advertising. Alternatively,

 an advertiser may place a message at a fixed locale in cyberspace but must

 use other mediums such as billboards and television ads to announce the

 computer location and ask the customer to go and look for it.



 It is unanimously agreed that noone controls the Internet and there is no

 legal requirment to follow these dictates. Nevertheless the vocal Internet

 minority that custom requires adherence to its outdated philospophy.



 The guidlines presented here refuse to recognize the unreasonable nature of

 those who are anti-advertising, Commercial activity on the Internet is a

 valuable and worthwhile use of this resource and advertising is a key

 element of such commercial use. It should be recognized that virtually no

 busines can be successful without advertising. The old-think view of some

 Net extremists that advertising is as an unwanted an unpleasant annoyance

 to be marginally tolerated is not good for the development of the Internet,

 nor healthy for the World economy.



 Recently special groups and networks devoted exclusively to product and

 service promotion have begun to be established. While these are an exciting

 pert of the development of the Information Superhighway, it is not

 acceptable or practical for advertising to be kept in a restricted area,

 separate from other Internet activities. Advertising is not relegated to

 such an inferior position in any other medium, thus it should not be so

 with respect to the Internet.



 Neither those who advertise on the Internet be forced to do so passively.

 In no ther medium is it required that a potential customer deliberately

 seek out an advertisement rather than having it placed before him or her.

 The idea that the only acceptable way to advertise on the Internet is a

 system where a non-computer medium is utilized to request that a potential

 customer look for such information at a particular site in cyberspace is a

 totally unacceptable limitation. Such convoluted methods are not effective

 or convenient for the advertiser or the consumer.



 The easy, free flow of information is the goal of the Internet. Advertising

 is valuable and useful information. It is the concept of free flow that

 should govern any Internet advertising policy.



 GUIDELINES



 * Usenet

 It is recognized that the Usenet is only public gathering place currently

 existing on the Internet. It is a legal and appropriate forum in which to

 place commercial messages.



 * Distribution

 Distribution of advertising messages to newsgroups on the Usenet will be

 based upon the demographic and /or interst of users of the newsgroups,

 ensuring that the newsgroups selected are those most often used by people

 likely to be interested in a particular commercial message.



 * Identity

 All commercial messages should be readiliy identifiable so users can read

 them in a fully informed manner. For example, a conventional, easily

 recognizable "AD" identifier in the title of all commercial message

 offerings may serve this purpose.



 * Filtering

 Advertisers shall respect the right of all individual Internet users to,

 though the use of existing or evolving technology, filter out commercial

 messages if they so choose. However, any upsteam provider short of the end

 users should refrain from making that decision for the individual, who may

 welcome a particular commercial message. Anything else would amount to

 censorship.



 * Sincerity

 Commercial messages should be offered only when there is a sincere belief

 that the information will prove useful to Internet users. The inclusion of

 useful information with the advertising copy is encouraged. However, it is

 als recognized that solicitation of purchases and directions on how to make

 such purchases are a validethical pursuit of the advertiser, as well as a

 useful convenience fot the consumer.



 (In addition to the above Internet-specific guidelines, the following

 suggestions are based upon time-tested, proven codes already in existence.

 {Sources are cited with each entry})



 * Truth

 Advertising shall tell the truth and shall reveal significant facts, the

 concealment of which would mislead the public (AAF's Advertising Principle

 of American Business)



 * Responsibility

 Advertising agencies and advertisers shall be willing to provide

 substantiation of all claims made (WSJ Guide to Advertising Policy and

 Production)



 * Taste and Decency

 Advertising shall be free of statements, illustrations, or implications

 that are offensive to good taste or public decency (Same Source)



 * Substantiation

 Advertising claims shall be substantiated by evidence in possession of the

 advertiser and advertising agency, prior to making such claims.

 (Advertising Principles of American Business)



 * Omission

 An advertisement as a whole (ed. note: original says "shoe") may be

 misleading although every sentence separately considered is literally true.

 Misrepresentation may result not only from direct statements but from

 omission of material facts (Better Business Bureau Code of Advertising)



 * Testimonials

 Advertising containing testimonials shall be limited to those of competent

 witnesses who are reflecting a real and honest opinion or experience.

 (Advertising Principles of American Business)



 * Composition

 The composition and layout of advertisements should be such as to minimize

 the possibility of misundertanding. (BBB Code)



 * Price Claims

 Advertisers shall not knowingly create advertising that contains price

 claims which are misleading. (AAAA Standards and Practices)



 * Unprovable Claims

 Advertising shall avoid the use of exaggerated or uprovable claims. (WSJ

 Guide)



 * Claims by Authorities

 Advertisers will not knowingly create advertising that contains claims

 insufficiently supported or that distorts the true meaning or practical

 application of statements made by professional or scientific authority.

 (Standards and Practices)



 * Guarantees and Warranties

 Advertiser of such shall be explicit with sufficient information to apprise

 consumers of their principal terms and limitations, or, when space and time

 restrictions pleclude such disclosures, the advertisement shall clearly

 reveal where the full text of the guarantee or warranty can be examined

 before purchase. (Advertising Principles)



 * Bait Advertising

 Advertising shall not offer products or services for sale unless such offer

 is constitutes a bona fide effort to sell the advertised products or

 services and is not a device to switch consumers to other goods or

 services, usually higher price. (Same Source)



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                      SOME INFO ON GREEN CARD SPAM



 The first surprise is that "pericles.com" has disappeared from the PSI

 name servers and from the "whois" database!  But they have a new

 domain, "SELL.COM".  The change happened just two days ago:



  % whois pericles.com

    No match for "PERICLES.COM".



  % whois pericles-dom

    No match for "PERICLES-DOM".



  % whois canter

    Canter & Siegel (SELL-DOM) SELL.COM

    Canter, Laurence A. (LC42)

    postmaster@SELL.COM

    (602) 661-3911 [and some other entries that are irrelevant here]



  % whois sell-dom

    Canter & Siegel (SELL-DOM)

    P.O.Box 13510 Scottsdale, AZ 85267



  Domain Name: SELL.COM



  Administrative Contact: Canter, Laurence A.  (LC42) postmaster@SELL.COM

  (602) 661-3911 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Network Information and

  Support Center (PSI-NISC) hostinfo@psi.com (518) 283-8860



  Record last updated on 09-Aug-94.



  Domain servers in listed order:



  NS.PSI.NET 192.33.4.10 NS2.PSI.NET 192.35.82.2



  % whois lc42

    Canter, Laurence A. (LC42)

    postmaster@SELL.COM

    Canter & Siegel P.O.Box 13510 Scottsdale, AZ 85267 (602) 661-3911



  Record last updated on 09-Aug-94.



  Queries from nslookup asking for an IP address or MX record for

  sell.com yield no fruit.  The query "ls sell.com" is refused by the PSI

  name servers.



  But it seems logical to ask about "cyber.sell.com", and sure enough,

  it's there:



  cyber.sell.com inet address = 199.98.145.99 cyber.sell.com preference =

  5, mail exchanger = cyber.sell.com



  This is the same address that pericles.com had until a couple of days

  ago.  It still has no backup mail exchanger, but that may not be so

  important any more, because....



  The host at this address is no longer a PC running Microsoft Windows.

  It's now a Unix box!  That's right: if you try to telnet to this host,

  at the customary port 23, you're greeted with this prompt:



  UNIX System V Release 4.2 (cybersell) (pts/0)



  login:



  There are also server processes listening on ports 512(rexecd), 513

  (rlogind) and 514 (rshd).



  They've got an FTP server (port 21), but it doesn't accept "anonymous"

  or "ftp" as a user name.



  They've also got an SMTP server listening (port 25), but it apparently

  does not implement the "vrfy", "expn", or "help" commands--all of these

  yield "502 ... Not recognized" error replies.  The "rcpt to" command

  seems to accept any recipient name as legitimate--any validity check

  must come later, after it has already accepted the mail.



  They don't have an NNTP(119), Gopher(70), or Web(80) server--at least

  not on the conventional ports for such services.



  They do have a few other active ports: echo(7), discard(9),

  daytime(13), ttytest(19), and time service (37).



  There's also something that answers a connection to port 199, but I

  have no idea what that service might be.  Anyone else know?



  If you do a traceroute, you get this: ....  9 psi-nsf.psi.net

  (192.41.177.246) 27 ms 31 ms 27 ms 10 core.net155.psi.net (38.1.2.3)

  145 ms 129 ms 145 ms 11 serial.phoenix.az.psi.net (38.1.10.37) 227 ms

  195 ms 195 ms 12 38.2.37.6 (38.2.37.6) 230 ms 184 ms 238 ms 13

  cyber.sell.com (199.98.145.99) 195 ms 215 ms 219 ms



  Someone who knows more about routing and networks than me might be able

  to analyze this for information about the nature of their connection.

  What is "38.2.37.6"?  It has no hostname, and if you try to telnet to

  it, it asks for a password without first asking for a username.



  I hope all of the above information is useful to the rest of the Usenet

  community.  If you've got your site aliased to "pericles.com", you

  should consider adding a new alias of "cyber.sell.com".  I look forward

  to hearing more information from others more knowledgeable than myself.



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                      CABLE RESOURCES ON THE NET



 By John Higgins (higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org)



 Updated September 1994 Compiled by Multichannel News. Copyrighted by

 John M. Higgins 1994. All rights reserved. Additional copyright information

 at bottom.



 Multichannel News Contacts:

 Marianne Paskowski, editor-in-chief (Mpcable@aol.com)

 John M. Higgins, finance editor: (higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org)



 Multichannel News subscription information: 800-247-8080. A bargain at

 $89/year.  Editorial Department: Voice) 212-887-8390; Fax) 212-887-8384



               -=-=-=-=-=-=-=THE BEST CABLE STUFF-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

  Telecomreg (mailing list); Cable Regulation Digest (newsletter); fcc.gov

   (document archive); FCC Daily Digest (finger); cablelabs.com (document

    archive); rec.video.cable-tv (Usenet newsgroup); Edupage (newsletter)

                               -=-=-=-=-=-=-



 For a bunch folks wanting to rule the info highway, cable's status on the

 Internet echoes MTV:Unplugged. There are some signs of senior execs

 starting to tap in, but they're few and far between. There are domains

 listed in the name of cable companies (TCI, Cablevision Systems, Viacom)

 but many seem to be inactive. Comcast and Viacom are on hopelessly limited

 MCI Mail systems that regularly snarl. To steal a line, cable execs hope to

 build the highway but they can't drive.



 Example: Recently I needed a copy of the freshly revised Hollings bill

 S.1822. I couldn't get it out of the Senate, the National Cable Television

 Association or any cable source. But I surfed over to Bell Atlantic's

 Internet site (ba.com) and grabbed the whole thing (including amendments).

 The telcos are clearly hipper to this info highway stuff than the cable

 kids.



 The good news is that the number of Internet resources useful to cable

 professionals is growing. The bad news is that they're primarily provided

 by telcos and regulators. But it's a start. Here's a cluster of cable

 resources of all sorts that I've encountered.



 GIMME FEEDBACK! Send us updates, particularly on the technical side. (And

 not just how to pirate HBO and pay-per-view porno, please.)



 "Differently clued" cable newbies should feel free to contact us with any

 questions on how to navigate. Many of these resources are NOT accessible to

 subscribers of Prodigy, America On-Line and Compu$erve.



 A similar list of broadcasting resources on the net is compiled by Neil

 Griffin (ngriffin@nyx.cs.du.edu).



 ** Mailing Lists



 TELECOMREG: A mailing list focusing on telecomunications regulation.

 Subscribers got an early peek at the FCC's latest cable price formula,

 Founded by Barry Orton, a consultant to municipal regulators, TELECOMREG is

 very high volume and fairly high quality.

 How to get on it: E-mail (listserver@relay.adp.wisc.edu; SUBSCRIBE

 TELCOMREG YOUR NAME)



 SCTE-LIST: A mailing list on cable technology apparently tied to the

 Society of Cable Television Engineers that just cranked up. It's too new to

 judge the quality.

 How to get on it: E-mail (listserver@relay.adp.wisc.edu; SUBSCRIBE

 SCTE-LIST YOUR NAME)



 I-TV: Discussion list centered on two-way Interactive Television. Very

 new, and appears to be focusing mostly on education and community

 development. So far it's pretty lame, but that could change. Expect lots

 of public-access types to be kicking around, as opposed to folks actually

 trying to make a business of it. Uploading press releases is -- for some

 bizzare reason -- encouraged.

 How to get on it: E-Mail (listserv@knowledgework.com; SUB I-TV YOUR

 NAME).



 TELECOM DIGEST: Oriented toward voice telephony, but covers all sorts of

 telecommunications topics. Fairly techie.

 How to get on it: E-mail (telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu; SUBSCRIBE

 YOUR@ADDRESS); Usenet (comp.dcom.telecom).



 ** Publications



 CABLE REGULATION DIGEST: A weekly summary of regulatory news from

 Multichannel News. The best way to obtain it each week is on the TELECOMREG

 list.

 How to get it: FTP (ftp.vortex.com: /tv-film-video/cable-reg)

 Gopher (gopher.vortex.com : /TV/Film/Video)



 FCC DAILY DIGEST: Washington telecom lawyer Robert Keller attaches the

 most recent edition and referenced documents to his "finger" file. A really

 nice effort by Keller. Be sure to open your capture buffer first, as the

 file is many screens long.

 Also available at the fcc.gov ftp and gopher site. (see below).

 How To Get It: Finger (finger rjk@telcomlaw.com).



 EDUPAGE: Tip sheet on information technology and media issued three

 times weekly. Quickie summaries primarily of newspaper articles,

 primarily from the majors.

 How to get it. E-Mail (listproc@educom.edu, SUB EDUPAGE YOUR NAME).



 FITZ'S SHOPTALK: Daily dispatches on the TV business, primarily networks

 and local stations put there's plenty of cable in there. Put out by media

 headhunter Don FitzPatrick. Primarily summaries of wire-service and major

 newspapers, but also includes some full-text reprints.

 How to get it: E-mail (shoptalk-request@gremlin.clark.net, SUBSCRIBE

 YOUR@ADDRESS).



 SKYGUIDE: This one's from a Brit that doubtless watches too much TV. The

 Euro cable and satellite television scene. Concentrates on BSkyB but also

 romps off onto the continent.

 How to get it: E-mail (bignoise@cix.compulink.co.uk), Usenet {preferred!}

 (alt.satellite.tv.europe).



 SATNEWS: A newsletter about satellite television broadcasting around the

 world.

 How to get it: E-mail: (listserv@orbital.demon.co.uk, SUBSCRIBE YOUR

 NAME).



 ** FTP, Gopher, and WWW Sites



 CABLELABS: Finally, a cable-specific document archive! CableLabs, the

 industry's R&D greenhouse, has established an anonymous FTP archive at

 cablelabs.com. It's still "under construction", as they say. There's a

 small collection of techie documents in it so far, but more is promised.

 How to get there: FTP (ftp.cablelabs.com); WWW (http://www.cablelabs.com/).



 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMISSION: Loads of documents, orders, etc. but

 they're poorly orgainized.

 How to get there: Gopher (fcc.gov); FTP (fcc.gov).



 PEPPER & CORAZZINI: A D.C. telecom law firm has put up an archive of

 documents and memos by their lawyers on related to broadcasting, cable,

 common carriers, PCS and information law. P&C's e-mail contact is Neal J.

 Friedman (nfriedma@clark.net)

 How to get there: Gopher (gopher.iis.com//11/p-and-c); FTP

 (ftp.iis.com/companies/p-and-c) WWW (http://www.iis.com/pandc-home.html).



 NTIA: National Telecommunications and Information Administration has a

 document site, notably from Clinton's National Info Infrastructure

 committe. Seems to be down frequently.

 How to get there: Gopher (ntia.doc.gov); FTP (ntia.doc.gov).



 BELL ATLANTIC: Telco propaganda (press releases, speeches, Congressional

 testimony) mixed in with lots of useful regulatory documents.

 How to get there: Gopher (ba.com); FTP (ba.com).



 MFJ TASK FORCE: More RBOC lobbying on-line. But it's a hell of a lot

 better than anything cable has to offer.

 How to get there: Gopher (bell.com).



 C-SPAN: The public-affairs network has a gopher site with a whole mess of

 programming info for viewers.

 How to get there: Gopher (c-span.org); ftp (c-span.org).



 CNN: For reasons I haven't quite figured out, the University of Maryland

 has a gopher site carrying the text of CNN's Headline News stories, putting

 up dozens of national and international news stories daily, with an archive

 going back several days.

 How to get there: Gopher (info.umd.edu).



 ** Usenet Groups



 The quality of cable info on Usenet newgroups is mixed. The most active

 cable group is rec.video.cable-tv. It once was dominated by tips on

 stealing cable. However, in recent months three cable system-level execs

 from Time Warner (Dean Stauffer), Continental (Scott Westerman) and Century

 (Lloyd Sanchez) have virtually turned the group around by patiently and

 respectfully responding to cable subscribers' questions, legit complaints

 and outright rants. Informed and informative answers, what a concept! Give

 them a raise.



 Usenet is one way to sample what subscribers are buzzing about. Is your

 company included on the recent list of "worst cable companies"?



 rec.video.cable-tv        Most active.

 alt.cable-tv.re-regulate  Traffic has really picked up. Lots of

                           complaining subscribers.

 alt.satellite.tv.europe   Active group on Euro cable and satellite

                           programming.

 alt.politics.datahighway  Not too bad.

 alt.tv.public-access      Reportedly exists, but I've never seen it.

 comp.dcom.telecom         Moderated discussion of telco issues. Telecom

                           Digest appears here.

 alt.dcom.telecom          Breakaway group started by telco folks

                           irritated by the ones dominating

                           comp.dcom.telecom

 alt.dcom.catv             I've NEVER seen pertinent traffic on this group.

 alt.tv.comedy.central     Dull.

 alt.tv.mst3k              Comedy Central's Mystery Science Theater 3000.

 alt.tv.hbo                Hardly any traffic.

 alt.tv.nickelodeon        Fans of the kid's network.

 alt.fan.ren-and-stimpy    'Nuff said.



 ** FAQ's



 There's a few frequently-asked-questions lists kicking about. The Cable

 TV FAQ is all about pirating HBO (YAWN!), with many technical details.

 Can't find the archive site, however. The DBS and wireless cable FAQs are

 more useful to non-pirate professionals.



 All three are posted are posted in rec.video.cable-tv periodically. High-

 power DBS is in rec.video.satellite. I'll add archive sites as I find them.



 CABLE TV FAQ

 How to get it: Usenet (rev.video.cable-tv).



 WIRELESS CABLE FAQ How to get it: FTP (rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/

 rec.video.cable-tv/Wireless_Cable_TV_FAQ); Usenet (rec.video.cable-tv).



 HIGH-POWER DBS FAQ: Not archived anywhere.

 How to get it: Usenet (rec.video.cable-tv, rec.video.satellite).



 ** Canada



 Mooseland has its own cluster of resources:



 USENET GROUPS:

  can.infohighway

  can.infobahn



 MAILING LISTS

  PAC-HIWAY: Run by Public Advisory Council on Information Highway Policy.

  How to get it: E-mail: (listprocessor@cunews.carleton.ca; SUBSCRIBE YOUR

 NAME)



 ISCNEWS: Mailing list of news releases, fact sheets, etc. from the

 federal agency Communications Canada

 How to get it: E-mail (listserv@debra.dgbt.doc.ca; SUBSCRIBE ISCNEWS

 YOUR NAME)



 THE INTERNET JOURNAL OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: Bi-weekly commentary on

 government action regarding information technology, trade and

 procurement in North America, but primarily Canada.

 How to get it: E-mail (pcanniff@fox.nstn.ns.ca)



 SITES

 INDUSTRY CANADA: Canada's equivalent to the U.S. Department of Commerce

 How To Get There: Gopher (debra.dgbt.doc.ca /Industry Canada Docs)

 FTP (debra.dgbt.doc.ca /pub  look in both "gazette" and "isc" directories)

 WWW: (http://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/isc/isc.html)





  Copyright 1994 by John M. Higgins. This list may be redistributed

 provided that the article and this notice remain intact. This article may

 not under any circumstances be resold or redistributed for compensation of

 any kind without prior written permission from John M. Higgins. That

 includes publication by magazine or CD-ROM. But if you're interested,

 talk to me.



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              IDS ANNOUNCES NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK POP (AC 914)



 From: green@ids.net





 InteleCom Data Systems, Inc, operators of the IDS World Network, the

 worlds first full-service Internet Access service geared towards end-users,

 announces the latest of its new Points of Presence to be brought online.



 New Rochelle, New York members may access IDS via (914) 637-6100  at speeds

 of up to 28.8k baud using the new V.FAST technology.



 IDS offers dialup Internet access for a low flat monthly fee, as well as

 PersonalSLIP - a dial-on-demand, low-cost SL/IP service starting at $20

 per month.



 Here is our standard electronic brochure.  For more information, contact

 IDS Customer Service at (800) IDS-1680.





  :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.

                          The IDS World Network

                         Internet Access Service

  :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.





 A great place for the beginner to start with, and an easy enough place for

 the experienced user to fully utilize the facilities on the Internet.



        Features:



             o Usenet NEWS

                o Internet Mail

                   o TELNET, FTP, FINGER, TALK

                      o Menu Driven Interface

                         o UPI Newswire

                            o VAX/VMS DCL Access

                               o Low affordable prices



 The IDS World Network Internet Access Service is a great meeting place on

 the Internet.  We offer free BBS service to everyone; message areas and

 local email are all free.  Stop in - meet and talk with people from all

 over the world... from Albania to Zimbabwe.  Yugoslavia... Russia...

 Germany... Australia... and all of them participate in our online message

 bases, providing inteligent discussion and an excellent way to make the

 world a bit smaller by bringing everyone together electronicly.  Subjects

 range from local parking tickets to the global environment and possible

 solutions for world problems.



 The IDS World Network was the first system to obtain NSFnet access for

 members - we're the longest running Internet "public access" service,

 with years of experience providing easy access for beginners, and ease

 of use for experienced Internet gurus.



 We have a network of several machines handling the load at our Operations

 Center in Rhode Island, with dedicated NEWS servers, SL/IP servers and UUCP

 machines.



 Now we're reachable through the CompuServe Packet Network - for just $4 per

 hour on top of the regular monthly subscription rates, you can access the IDS

 World Network from any local number for the CompuServe Packet Network - for

 your nearest CPN number, call our customer service line at (800) IDS-1680.

 The rates for using IDS through the CompuServe network are just $4 per hour,

 day or night - no higher rate for peak usage.  PersonalSLIP and other SL/IP

 services are not available through the CompuServe Packet Network, although

 IDS UUCP services are...



 INTERNET SERVICES



 Users have their own workspace with unlimited file size storage; files

 remain in the workspace for 24 hours (giving the user ample time to

 download files to their personal computer).



 Service types:



 Standard Account - All Internet functions, standard menu account, VAX/VMS

 DCL Access.  Services arranged by category in an easy-to-use, menu

 driven interface.  All for $15 per month ($17 per month when dialing

 through Miami).



 PersonalSLIP - Your own Internet SL/IP connection, Dial-On-Demand.  $20/month

 for 20 hours, $2/hr each additional hour.  POP Mail service included

 for mail storage and retrieval, for use with popular email programs

 such as Eudora, QVTnet, and others.  Also includes NNTP server access

 for offline/online NEWS reading.



 Dedicated PersonalSLIP - Your own Internet SL/IP connection, 24 hours a day,

 7 days a week, your own Single-Host IP address and Domain Name, $75/month

 There is a $450 startup charge for this service.



 Dedicated SL/IP - Network connections for multiple hosts and all of the above

 for $200/month.  There is a $450 startup charge for this service.



 UUCP Services - Connect your BBS or your own private system.  We support

 14.4k baud modems on all of our UUCP lines.  One-time setup fee of $25, plus

 $20/month for mail and up to 100 newsgroups, $35/month for up to 500,

 $45/month for a full feed.  One time fee of $25 for those wishing to

 apply for their own domain.



 ATTENTION TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS



 IDS works heavily with teachers and educators around the world to help

 bring them together to utilize the Internet in the classroom.  If you'd

 like more information, send electronic mail to info@ids.net.  Rhode Island

 teachers:  contact Reo Beaulieu at the RI Department of Education for your

 free account.



 CURRENT DIALUP CALLING AREAS



 Middle Rhode Island     (401) 884-9002

 Northern Rhode Island   (401) 273-1088

 Southern Rhode Island   (401) 294-5779

 Miami, Florida          (305) 534-0321

 Merrit Island, Florida  (407) 453-4545 (Brevard County, FL)

 New Rochelle, New York  (914) 637-6100

 All CompuServe Packet Network numbers.



Other Florida areas forthcoming.





 -->  ALL USERS MUST ADHERE TO ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES OF THE APPROPRIATE <--

 -->                              NETWORKS                                <--



 To access the IDS World Network;  telnet to ids.net [155.212.1.2], or dial

 us via modem at (401) 884-9002.  If you are dialing direct, type IDS at the

 first prompt and then sign on as GUEST when it asks for a Username.



 Web users, try the <A HREF="http://www.ids.net">IDS Web Server</A>.



 For Customer Service, send email to info@ids.net, or call (800) IDS-1680

 voice.  Within Rhode Island, call (401) 884-7856.



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                                THE MEDIA LIST



 By Adam M. Gaffin (adamg@world.std.com)



 This is a listing of newspapers, magazines, TV stations and other media

 outlets that accept electronic submissions from readers and viewers, along

 with their main e-mail addresses.  It would be almost impossible to

 maintain a listing of individual reporters, editors and the like;  if you

 want to reach a specific person, try sending a request to the given media

 outlet's general address (but see below for a one-time listing for the

 Ottawa Citizen).  If you are submitting a letter to the editor or an op-ed

 piece, it's a good idea to include your mail address and a daytime phone

 number.  Publications generally try to verify authorship and will not run

 submissions without some way to check whether you really wrote the item

 to which your name is attached.



 Please send any additions, deletions or corrections to the address at the

 end of this list.  Look for new editions in the alt.journalism,

 alt.internet.services and comp.misc newsgroups.  My thanks to all who have

 contributed!  Because of these kind folks, this list is now substantially

 longer than it was just a week ago.



 SPECIAL NOTE:  The last part of this list contains the e-mail addresses

 for reporters and editors at the Ottawa Citizen.  Thanks to the Citizen for

 the information.





 DAILY NEWSPAPERS



 Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.       mnews@world.std.com

 Boston Globe

      Story Ideas                        news@globe.com

      Circulation Requests               circulation@globe.com

      Letters to the Editor              letter@globe.com

      Submissions to "Voxbox" column     voxbox@globe.com

      Comments on Coverage/Ombudsman     ombud@globe.com

      Ask the Globe                      ask@globe.com

      Thursdays Calendar Section         list@globe.com

      Health & Science Section           howwhy@globe.com

      Confidential Chat                  chat@globe.com

      City Weekly Section                ciweek@globe.com

      Religion Editor                    religion@globe.com

      Arts Editor                        arts@globe.com



 Champaign-Urbana (Ill.) News-Gazette    gazette@prairienet.org



 Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria, Ohio        macroncl@freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu

 Colorado Daily, Boulder, Colo           colorado_daily@onenet-bbs.org

 The Guardian, U.K.                      letters@guardian.co.uk

      Notes and Queries                  nandq@guardian.co.uk

 Morning Journal, Lorain, Ohio           mamjornl@freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu

 Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont.            ottawa-citizen@freenet.carleton.ca

 Portland Oregonian                      oreeditors@aol.com

 Sacramento Bee                          sacbedit@netcom.com

 Phoenix Gazette                         phxgazette@aol.com

 St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times             73174.3344@compuserve.com

 San Diego Union-Tribune                 computerlink@sduniontrib.com

 San Francisco Examiner                  sfexaminer@aol.com

 San Jose Mercury-News                   sjmercury@aol.com

 Santa Cruz County (Calif.) Sentinel

       Letters to the editor             sented@cruzio.com

       News desk                         sentcity@cruzio.com

 Seattle Times                           edtimes@hebron.connected.com

 Tico Times, Costa Rica                  ttimes@huracon.cr

 Washington Square News, NYU             nyuwsn@aol.com



 WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS



 Hill Times, Ottawa, Ont.                ab142@freenet.carleton.ca

  Journal Newspapers, D.C. area           thejournal@aol.com

  The Mirror, Montreal, Quebec            mirror@fc.babylon.montreal.qc.ca

  Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto, Calif.     paweekly@netcom.com.

  The Village Voice, New York, N.Y.       voice@echonyc.com



   MAGAZINES



 American Journalism Review              amerjourrv@aol.com

 Brown Alumni Monthly, Providence, R.I.  bam@brownvm.brown.edu

 Business Week                           bwreader@mgh.com

 Chronicle of Higher Education           editor@chronicle.merit.edu

 Details                                 detailsmag@aol.com

 Frank Magazine, Ottawa, Ont.            ag419@freenet.carleton.ca

 Focus, Germany                          100335.3131@compuserve.com

 GQ                                      gqmag@aol.com

 Illinois Issues, Springfield, Ill.      wojcicki@eagle.sangamon.edu.

 Mother Jones                            x@mojones.com

 The New Republic                        editors@tnr.com

 New Scientist, U.S. bureau              75310.1661@compuserve.com

 Oberlin Alumni Magazine                 alummag@ocvaxc.cc.oberlin.edu.

 OutNOW!, San Jose, Calif.               jct@netcom.com

 Playboy                                 playboy@class.com

 S.F. Examiner Magazine                  sfxmag@mcimai.com

 Scientific American                     letters@sciam.com

 Soundprint                              soundprt@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu

 Der Spiegel, Germany                    100064.3164@compuserve.com

 Stern, Hamburg, Germany                 100125.1305@compuserve.com

 Sky & Telescope, Cambridge, Mass.       skytel@cfa.harvard.edu

 Spectrum, New York, N.Y.                n.hantman@ieee.org

 Stern, Hamburg, Germany                 100125.1305@compuserve.com

 Time                                    timeletter@aol.com

 Ultramarathon Canada                    an346@freenet.carleton.ca

 USA Weekend                             usaweekend@aol.com

 U.S. News and World Report              71154.1006@compuserve.com

 Wired                                   editor@wired.com



 NEWS/MEDIA SERVICES



 Cowles/SIMBA Media Daily                simba02@aol.com

 Media Page                              mpage@netcom.com

 Newsbytes                               newsbytes@genie.geis.com



 NEWSLETTERS



 Dealmakers                              Ted.Kraus@property.com

 Information Law Alert                   markvoor@phantom.com

 Multichannel News                       higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org

 Society of Newspaper Design             fairbairn@plink.geis.com

 Spec-Com Journal                        spec-com@genie.geis.com

 Western Producer, Saskatoon             fairbairn@plink.geis.com



 RADIO AND TV STATIONS AND NETWORKS



 CJOH-TV, Ottawa, Ont. Can.              ab363@freenet.carleton.ca

 KARK, Little Rock, Ark.                 newsfour@aol.com

 KOIN, Portland, OR.                     koin06A@prodigy.com

 WBFO, Buffalo, N.Y.                     wbfo@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu

 WBFO-FM, NPR, Buffola, NY.              wbfo@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu

 WCBS-AM, CBS, NYC.                      news88@prodigy.com

 WCVB-TV, Boston, Mass.                  wcvb@aol.com

 WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minn.             wccotv@mr.net

 WDCB Radio, Glen Ellyn, Ill.            scotwitt@delphi.com

 WEOL-AM, Elyria, Ohio                   maweol@freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu.

 WNWV-FM, Elyria, Ohio                   maweol@freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu.

 WNYC, New York, N.Y., "On the Line"     76020.560@compuserve.com

 WRVO-FM, Oswego, N.Y.                   wrvo@oswego.edu

 WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tenn.               craig.owensby@nashville.com

 WVIT-TV, New Britian, Conn              wvit30a@prodigy.com

 WXYZ-TV, ABC, Detroit.                  wxyztv@aol.com

 WWWE 1100 AM  Cleveland, OH             talk11a@prodigy.com

 BBC "Write On"                          iac@bbc-iabr.demon.com.uk

 CBC Radio, "Brand X"                    brandx@winnipeg.cbc.ca

 Fox TV                                  foxnet@delphi.com

 Maine Public TV, "Media Watch"          greenman@maine.maine.edu

 Monitor Radio Int'l "Letterbox"         letterbox@wshb.csms.com

 NBC News, New York, N.Y.                nightly@nbc.ge.com

 NBC News, "Dateline"                    dateline@nbc.ge.com

 NPR "Talk of the Nation"                totn@aol.com

 NPR "Talk of the Nation/Sci. Friday"    scifri@aol.com

 NPR "Fresh Air"                         freshair@hslc.org

 NPR "Weekend All Things Considered"     watc@cap.gwu.edu

 NPR "Weekend Edition/Sunday"            wesun@clark.net



 COMPUTER PUBLICATIONS



 Communications News                     489-8359@mcimail.com

 Corporate Computing                     439-3854@mcimail.com

 Computerworld                           computerworld@mcimail.com

 Communications Week                     440-7485@mcimail.com

 Data Communications                     416-2157@mcimail.com

 Datateknik, Sweden                      datateknik@dt.etforlag.se

 Enterprise Systems Journal              543-3256@mcimail.com

 Home Office Computing                   hoc@aol.com

 Information Week                        informationweek@mcimail.com

 Infoworld                               letters@infoworld.com

 The Internet Business Journal           mstrange@fonorola.net

 The Internet Letter                     netweek@access.digex.net

 iX, Germany                             post@ix.de

 Journal of C Language Translation       jclt@iecc.com

 LAN Times                               538-6488@mcimail.com

 Network Computing                       network_computing@mcimail.com

 Network Management                      network@world.std.com

 PC Magazine                             157.9301@mcimail.com

 PC Week                                 557-0379@mcimail.com

 Telecommunications                      311-1693@mcimail.com

 Windows User                            75300.3513@compuserve.com



 --------------

 Ottawa Citizen (please note that all of these addresses save the last one

 are at Ottawa Freenet, which has a domain of freenet.carleton.ca; to

 reach Doug Yonson from outside the Freenet, for example, write

 af719@freenet.carleton.ca).



     af719 Doug Yonson             The Citizen's FreeNet coordinator

     ac583 Peter Calamai           Editorial Page Editor

     ae273 Johanne Vincent         Editorial Page assistant

     ae836 Tony Cote               Action Line columnist

     ah206 Alana Kainz             High technology reporter/columnist

     ac806 Deborah Richmond        High Priority editor

     ag955 Francine Dube           Social trends reporter

     af391 Peter Hum               Reporter

     ai997 Mike Shahin             Outaouais Reporter

     ae451 William Speake          Part-time reporter

     ag696 Hilary Kemsley          Years Ahead columnist (seniors issues)

     ai379 Drew Gragg              Assistant Photo Director

     af227 Jack Aubry              National Reporter (aboriginal affairs)

     ae379 Daniel Drolet           Reporter

     al715 Liisa Tuominen          Librarian

     ak570 Michael Groberman       Theatre critic

     am906 Robert Sibley           Reporter

     an643 Dave Rogers             Reporter

     ao096 Wanita Bates            Consumer, fashion reporter

     an552 Tony Lofaro             Reporter

     am100 Seymour Diener          Asst news editor, real estate columnist

     ao483 Mark Richardson         Reporter

     ap171 Karen Murphy-Mackenzie  Copy staff

     ao450 Bernard Potvin          Copy staff

     ap764 Massey Padgham          Foreign editor

     aq148 Carolyn Abraham         Police reporter

     aq438 Shelley Page            Science reporter

     Rick Laiken, 71277.3651@compuserve.com  Assistant managing editor

                                             (OCRINET contact, newsroom

                                             computer systems specialist

                                             & libel expert)





 What follows are new entries and corrections for the Media List, which is

 a listing of newspapers, radio stations, etc. that accept electronic

 submissions. This is NOT the complete list.  You can obtain the entire

 list via ftp at ftp.std.com as customers/periodicals/Middlesex-

 News/medialist. If you'd rather receive the list and updates automatically

 via e-mail, write to



     majordomo@world.std.com



 Leave the "subject:" line blank.  As your message, write:



     subscribe medialist



 To leave the list, write to majordomo@world.std.com with a message of



     unsubscribe medialist





 NOTES ON USING THIS LIST: If you want a publication to print your letter,

 include your postal address and phone number for verification purposes.

 Also, please consider NOT using this list to send a mass mailing to every

 single listed media outlet. A bicycling magazine is unlikely to be

 interested in your thoughts on abortion, no matter how cogent they are,

 for example.



 My thanks again to all who have contributed!  Comments and suggestions --

 and especially addresses of unlisted media organizations -- are most

 welcome.  Please send them to adamg@world.std.com (please note the 'g' in

 adamg; adam@world.std.com is a very nice person who has been graciously

 forwarding mis-addressed e-mail, but he is not me).



 NEWSFLASH:  The New York Times is planning a formal Internet connection,

 we read on the CARR-L mailing list, sometime this summer or early fall.

 Once in place, the domain will be nytimes.com. CARR-L is a list for

 talking about the use of computers in newsrooms and journalistic research.

 To subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet.  Leave the "subject:"

line blank, and as your message, write: subscribe carr-l Your Name

(substituting, of course, your name).



 NOTE: Listings marked with an asterisk are corrections.



 DAILY NEWSPAPERS



 The Baltimore Sun

     To reach reporters or comment

     on the paper (NO letters to the

     editor or subscription requests)   baltsun@clark.net

 The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch            crow@cd.columbus.oh.us

     Letters to the editor              letters@cd.columbus.oh.us

 Jerusalem (Israel) Post                 jpost@zeus.datasrv.co.il

 The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.            olympian@halcyon.com



 WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS



 City Sun, New York, N.Y.

      Computer column                   sysop@f618.n278.z1.fidonet.org



 COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS



 The Muse, Memorial Univ., Newfoundland  muse@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

 The Tech, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

      Advertising                       ads@the-tech.mit.edu

      Arts                              arts@the-tech.mit.edu

      News                              news@the-tech.mit.edu

      Sports                            sports@the-tech.mit.edu

      Archive management                archive@the-tech.mit.edu

      Circulation and subscriptions     circ@the-tech.mit.edu

      Free calendar listings            news-notes@the-tech.mit.edu

      General questions                 general@the-tech.mit.edu

      Letters to the editor             letters@the-tech.mit.edu

      Photography department            photo@the-tech.mit.edu



 MAGAZINES



 *American Journalism Review

     Letters to the editors/queries

     (NO press releases)               editor@ajr.umd.edu

 Electric Shock Treatment, U.K.

 (innovative and experimental music)   bd1@mm-croy.mottmac.co.uk

 *Inside Media                          mediaseven@aol.com

 Interrace Magazine, Atlanta            73424.1014@compuserve.com



 NEWS/MEDIA SERVICES AND PRESS ASSOCIATIONS



 Conus Washington/TV Direct              conus-dc@clark.net



 RADIO AND TELEVISION NETWORKS



 CNN Global News                         cnnglobal@aol.com

 * NBC, "Dateline"                        dateline@news.nbc.com



 RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS



 KXTV-TV, Sacramento, Calif.             kxtv@netcom.com



 COMPUTER PUBLICATIONS



 *Network Computing                      editor@nwc.com

 *Personal Computer World                editorial@pcw.ccmail.compuserve.com

 3W  Magazine: The Internet with a

 Human Face                            3W@ukartnet.demon.co.uk

 Windows Computer Shareware              5648326@mcimail.com



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 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND MAIL TO YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS ASKING THEM

 IF THEY OFFER THEIR SYSTEM LOGS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES - ESPECIALLY IF

 YOU LIVE IN TEXAS.  ACTIONS SUCH AS THIS MAY BE A VIOLATION OF YOUR

 PRIVACY.  IF YOU DISCOVER THIS TO BE THE CASE, MAIL US!



 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



            A TeleStrategies Event co-chaired by the

              Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX)



        TeleStrategies' Internet Conference and Expo '94

           Monday October 10 - Wednesday October 12

              Sheraton Crystal City, Arlington VA



 Conference Track (Tue October 11 - Wed October 12):Publishing,  Marketing

 and Advertising on the Internet



 Pre-Conference Tutorial (Mon October 10): Understanding Internet



 Technologies For Non-Engineers And Strategic Planners



 Demonstration Track (Mon October 10 - Wed October 12):Online Demonstrations

 Of Internet Services, Products And Access Technologies



 Workshop Track (Tue October 11 - Wed October 12):How To Do Business On The

 Internet



 Exhibitions (Mon October 10 - Wed October 12)



 CONFERENCE TRACK - Tuesday, October 11, 1994

 Publishing , Marketing and Advertising on the Internet



 8:00-9:00  Registration



 9:00-10:00 - INTERNET: THE OUTLOOK FOR

              COMMERCIALIZATION AND GROWTH



 John Curran, Product Manager, BBN Technology Services

 Bill Washburn, Executive Director, Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX)



 10:00-10:15  Coffee Break



 10:15-12:00 - NEWSPAPER AND BOOK PUBLISHING ON

               THE INTERNET

 Jeff Crigler, Director, Market Development, Network Advanced Services

 Division, IBM



 Laura Fillmore, President, Online Bookstore

 William S. Johnson, Publisher, Palo Alto Weekly



 12:00-2:00  Hosted Lunch and Exhibits



 2:00-2:45 - INTERNET USERS: WHO ARE THEY?

 Magdalena Yesil, Partner, Management Forum



 2:45-3:15 - INTERNET BILLING

 Gary Desler, Senior Vice President, Network Solutions



 3:15-3:30  Coffee Break



 3:30-5:30 - CREATING BUSINESS MODELS FOR THE INTERNET

 Gordon Cook, President, Cook Network Consultants

 Chris Locke, President, MecklerWeb Corporation

 Cathy Medich, Executive Director, CommerceNet

 Robert Raisch, President, The Internet Company



 5:30-6:30  Reception and Exhibits





 CONFERENCE TRACK - Wednesday, October 12, 1994

 Publishing , Marketing and Advertising on the Internet



 8:30-10:00 - HOW TO MARKET AND ADVERTISE EFFECTIVELY

 Andrew Frank, Director, Software Development, Ogilvy & Mather Direct

 Erica Gruen, Senior Vice President, Television, Information

 and New Media, Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Worldwide

 Judith Axler Turner, a head of the working group on advertising for the

 Coalition for Networked Information



 10:00-10:30  Coffee Break and Exhibits



 10:30-12:00 - COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING ISSUES

 Kathlene Krag, Assistant Director, Copyright and New Technology Association

 of American Publishers, Inc.



 Steve Metalitz, Vice President and General Counsel Information

 Industry Association

 Martha Whittaker, General Manager, The UnCover Company



 12:00-12:30 - VIDEO VIA THE INTERNET

 Ed Moura, Vice President, Marketing and Sales Hybrid Networks, Inc.



 12:30-2:00  Hosted Lunch and Exhibits



 2:00-3:30 - INFORMATION SERVICES AND THE INTERNET

 Brad Templeton, President, ClariNet Communications

 Richard Vancil, Vice President, Marketing, INDIVIDUAL, Inc.

 Representative, America Online



 3:30-3:45  Coffee Break



 3:45-5:00 - INTERNET PUBLISHING AND MARKETING TOOLS

 Bruce Caslow, Systems Engineer, Mesa Technologies

 John Kolman, Vice President, NOTIS Systems, Inc.

 Kevin Oliveau, Engineer, WAIS, Inc.



 Pre-Conference Tutorial

 UNDERSTANDING INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES

 FOR NON-ENGINEERS AND STRATEGIC PLANNERS

 Monday, October 10, 1994  - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.



 Presented By: John Curran, BBN Technology Services;

 Bruce Antleman, Information Express;

 Bruce Caslow, Mesa Technologies; and Stephen Crocker,

 Trusted Information Systems, Inc.



 This one-day tutorial is for the non-engineer, strategic planner,

 entrepreneur or anyone who has to understand the Internet in order to make

 business decisions about emerging commercial opportunities. This tutorial

 covers not only Internet technologies, economics and leading-edge

 opportunities, but also looks at operational issues such as security,

 addressing and network management from a business development perspective.



 1. INTERNET OVERVIEW: What is the Internet? Who controls it? How do you get

 connected? What can you do with it? Who pays for it? Who are the players

 domestically and internationally? What is the role of the NII and NREN? Why

 are the RBOCs, cable TV companies, IXCs and PDA vendors interested in

 Internet? Why all the attention to commercialization? How is the Internet

 likely to evolve over the next few years?



 2. INTERNET ACCESS, NAVIGATION AND APPLICATIONS:

 How to find, share and sell information on the Internet. The basic

 application tools and navigation/search systems (FTP, Telnet, Archie, Gopher,

 Mosaic, World Wide Web, WAIS, etc.). Access service providers (CIX, PSI,

 Sprint and others). Access options (dial-up, dedicated, frame relay, cable

 TV and wireless).New entrepreneurial developments.



 3. INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES: Role of TCP/IP. MAC vs. PC products. LAN access

 (SLIP, PPP, frame relay, etc.) and WAN and ATM developments. IPX, DECNET and

 APPLETALK. Leading edge vendors and where their products are headed. IP

 addressing. How to obtain addresses (Class A,B,and C). CIDR, Internet DNS and

 how to register. Setting up an E-mail server, bulletin board and directory

 service.



 4. INTERNET SECURITY AND MANAGEMENT: Security concerns, policies and

 procedures. Defeating password sniffing. Firewalls and available firewall

 toolkits. Encryption, authentication and Clipper Chip issues. Other

 operational concerns related to doing business on the Internet. Guidelines

 for managing a commercial Internet service. SNMP management tools and

 products.



 WORKSHOP TRACK - Tuesday, October 11, 1994

 HOW TO DO BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET



 9:00-10:15 - GETTING CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET

 Howard McQueen, President, CD Consultants



 10:15-10:45  Coffee Break



 10:45-12:00 - CREATING A BUSINESS PRESENCE ON THE INTERNET

 Duffy Mazan, Partner, Electric Press, Inc.



12:00-2:00 Lunch and Exhibits



 2:00-3:15 - MOSAIC

 Bruce Caslow, Systems Engineer, Mesa Technologies



 3:15-3:30  Break



 3:30-5:00 - BUSINESS USES OF THE INTERNET

 Al Dhir, President, Internet Access Group, Inc.



 5:00-6:30  Reception and Exhibits





 WORKSHOP TRACK - Wednesday, October 12, 1994

 HOW TO DO BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET



 9:00-10:15 - SECURITY: SINGLE SIGN ON

 Tom McHale, Director of Marketing and Product Development for North America,

 ICL, Inc.



 10:15-10:45  Coffee Break



 10:45-12:00 - CORPORATE AND BUSINESS TRAINING OVER THE INTERNET

 Speaker to be announced



12:00-2:00  Lunch and Exhibits



 2:00-3:15 - NETIQUETTE: HOW TO DO BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT GETTING

 "FLAMED" Paul Kainen, President, Kainen Technology Services



 ONLINE INTERNET DEMONSTRATION TRACK

 Monday, October 10, 1994



 2:00-5:00 p.m.

 Track A: DEMYSTIFYING THE INTERNET

 Paul Kainen, President, Kainen Technology Services



 Track B: DEMONSTRATIONS BY WAIS, Inc. and Performance Systems International



 5:00-6:30 Reception and Exhibits



 ONLINE INTERNET DEMONSTRATION TRACK

 Tuesday, October 11, 1994



 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

 Track A: DEMYSTIFYING THE INTERNET

 Bruce Caslow, Systems Engineer, Mesa Technologies



 Track B: DEMONSTRATIONS BY:Semaphore Communications - Internet security

 products -  CD Consultants



 12:00-2:00  Lunch and Exhibits



 2:00-5:00

 Track A: DEMONSTRATIONS BY Spry, Inc.  "Internet in a Box" Online Bookstore



 Track B: DEMONSTRATIONS BY MecklerWeb

 Corporation and "Palo Alto Weekly," the first general circulation newspaper

 on the Internet



 5:00-6:30  Reception and Exhibits



 ONLINE INTERNET DEMONSTRATION TRACK

 Wednesday, October 12, 1994



 9:00-12:00

 Track A: DEMONSTRATIONS BY America Online -  demo of their current

 information services and NOTIS Systems, Inc. - demo of new, easy-to-use

 publishing tool for the Internet



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 MOSAIC at 56 KBPS



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 2:00-3:15

 Track A: DEMONSTRATION BY LEGI-SLATE



 Track B: DEMONSTRATION BY Gestalt Systems, Inc.



 CURRENT ONLINE DEMONTRATIONS

 Monday, October 10 - Wednesday, October 12



 Current Demonstrations Conducted By: WAIS, Inc.,  SemaphoreCommunications,

 CD Consultants, Spry, Inc., Online Bookstore,MecklerWeb Corporation,

 "Palo Alto Weekly," America Online, NOTIS Systems, Inc., Hybrid Networks,

 Inc.,  Mesa Technologies,Legi-Slate, Performance Systems International

 and Gestalt Systems, Inc.



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 Wednesday, October 12 - 10:00-2:00 p.m.



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 Paglia: Brash, Self-Promoting and Possibly the next Marshall McLuhan



 Interviewed by Stewart Brand



 (Editor's note - Paglia's faxed corrections of this article became a

 critical part of the design and layout. Hence, it has lost much that

 cannot be conveyed in ASCII over the electronic BBS's or the Internet. We

 strongly suggest you refer to the original in the magazine itself for the

 complete context).



 Camille Paglia, bad girl of feminism, has a knack for outraging listeners

 one moment, and then having them nod their heads in agreement the next. In

 rapid-fire broadcast mode, Paglia jumps from Aristotle to Madonna, soap

 opera to cathedral, all in one sentence. A tape recorder has trouble

 picking out her cascading words (Paglia faxed the accompanying text

 corrections to WIRED's offices late one Saturday night) and makes

 absolutely no progress in capturing her total body animation as she acts

 out each phrase. A media creature through and through, Paglia has been

 cavorting in the limelight of network TV and sold-out lectures ever since

 her 1991 book, Sexual Personae (the first of two volumes), poked the eye

 of both conservatives and liberals. Intrigued by Paglia's intellectual

 resemblance to Marshall McLuhan - patron saint of WIRED magazine - Stewart

 Brand, the author of the Media Lab, caught up with Paglia in the court of

 a San Francisco hotel.



 BRAND: Have you mapped your success against Marshall McLuhan's? Remember

 how that happened? Here was a guy, like you he was on the fringe of

 academia, Catholic oriented, basically a literary creature. He starts

 holding forth in a epigrammatic way about culture and media, and suddenly

 AT&T and everybody else wants to talk to him. Paglia comes along, does

 what you've done...



 PAGLIA: ...Influenced by McLuhan. Neil Postman, who I had the Harper's

 magazine discussion with, said something that was very moving to me. He

 said at the end of that evening, "I was a student of Marshall McLuhan and

 I have never been with someone who reminded me more of McLuhan. When you

 were sitting with McLuhan in the middle of the night, all you would see

 was the tip of his cigar glowing, and you would hear him making these huge

 juxtapositions. Even his writing never captured the way McLuhan's mind

 worked. Your mind works exactly the same, the way you bring things

 together and they ssssizzle when you bring them together."



 BRAND: So you read McLuhan in college.



 PAGLIA: McLuhan was assigned in my classes. Everyone had a copy of his

 books. There were so many things that were happening at that moment -

 McLuhan, Norman O. Brown, Leslie Fiedler, Allen Ginsberg. There was

 enormous promise of something that was going to just blast everything open

 in cultural criticism. What the heck happened? It wasn't just a

 conservative administration in the '70s and '80s. That's not it. It was a

 failure on the part of the '60s generation itself. You feel it a little

 bit in "Blow Up," or just like reading about Jimi Hendrix and the way the

 women looked, the way the groupies looked - how fabulous the groupies

 were. They were so sexy and so ballsy! It was amazing how those '60s

 chicks talked. This was the real feminism. Even women got less powerful.

 We have had a general cultural collapse.



 BRAND: What did you make of McLuhan?



 PAGLIA: We all thought, "This is one of the great prophets of our time."

 What's happened to him? Why are these people reading Lacan or Foucault who

 have no awareness at all of mass media? Why would anyone go on about the

 school of Saussure? In none of that French crap is there any reference to

 media. Our culture is a pop culture. Americans are the ones who have to be

 interpreting the pop culture reality.



 When I was in England earlier this summer for the release of the Penguin

 paperback of Sexual Personae, I was having fits because of no TV there. I

 felt like I was in prison. Then I got to Amsterdam, and Amsterdam was

 better because they had everything on satellite. That was interesting in a

 kind of sociological way. They have German TV and Italian TV and French

 TV, but it is still not equivalent to what we have. What we have is total

 domination by the pop culture matrix, by the mass media matrix. That's the

 future of the world.



 BRAND: Is pop culture and mass media the same thing?



 PAGLIA: For me, yes. I teach a course called "Mass Media." I think that it

 should be required for every liberal arts graduate - the whole history of

 mass media, traced from the 1830s newspapers all the way to today.



 BRAND: Between Volume 1 and the forthcoming Volume 2 of Sexual Personae is

 the arrival of mass media. When you have mass media, is art different?



 PAGLIA: I call the 20th century "The Age of Hollywood." I believe that

 mass media and pop culture is the culture of the 20th century. There's a

 big break at World War II. The last great works of high art are with World

 War I. You have Picasso and T. S. Eliot, and I feel that modernism in

 literature exhausted itself in its first generation - Proust, Joyce,

 Wolfe; that was it. What else? That's why I have my provocative

 statements, such as for me the best novel after World War II is Auntie

 Mame. I mean that literally. The only writers of fiction interesting to me

 at all after World War II are decadent or comedic. These are to me the

 only modes that work literarily after World War II. So Genet and Tennessee

 Williams are major figures for me.



 My publisher is always trying to get me to read novels - Saul Bellow, A.S.

 Byatt. I say, "Why would I want to read a serious novel?" Because a

 serious novel today is already too reactionary, by trying to reinterpret

 contemporary reality in verbal terms, making a verbal structure - no, no,

 no. To me, the rhythms of our thinking in the pop culture world, the

 domination by image, the whole way the images are put together, and so on

 are way beyond the novel at this point. If a novelist does emerge now who

 is a product of pop culture and mass media, it's going to look quite

 different on the page. It won't necessarily look fragmented. I don't

 believe in that post-modernist thing of cutting things up. But the rhythms

 of it are going to be fast rhythms, and it's going to be surreal, flashing.



 In my famous encounter with Susan Sontag in 1973, I had a bitter

 disappointment when I invited her to Bennington and we tried to talk, and

 I couldn't talk to her. I had felt like "Finally, a woman on my level,"

 and her mind seemed so sloooow. It took me ten years before I realized

 what it was. She was born before World War II. There's no way her brain is

 like my brain. I suddenly realized, half my brain is different. I mean,

 half my brain is the traditional Apollonian logo-centric side which was

 trained by the rigorous public schools of that period, but the other half

 is completely an electrified brain. Essentially, what I'm doing is what

 all the '60s was doing, which was exploring the way that brain works. I

 have been exploring both sides of the brain in my work. But we need both.

 Not having both I think is a disaster for the young today because I have

 them in my classes.



 BRAND: You agree with Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death on this?



 PAGLIA: I agree with Neil Postman that we need both. We cannot have one,

 or one over the other. These young kids, they're lost.



 BRAND: If somebody's got both sides of their brain electric, what happens?



 PAGLIA: I think that they become hysterical. They become very susceptible

 to someone's ideology. The longing for something structured, something

 that gives them a world view, is so intense that whatever comes along,

 whether it's fascism or feminist ideology (which to me are inseparable),

 they'll glom onto it and they can't critique it. You see the inability of

 the young to critique this can of worms that feminism gives them -

 "patriarchy" and all this stuff - the inability to think through issues

 like date rape. I was screamed at by girls at Brown about date rape. Later

 I encountered them by chance on the streets of Philadelphia - they

 happened to be touring the country registering voters this summer - and I

 said ask me some questions. These girls were juniors at Brown and their

 minds couldn't even focus long enough for a reply. (Paglia mimics

 fluttering inarticulate interruptions.)



 They didn't have the base of education that I did, the rigorous public

 school education. The consequence is my mind can play in the realm of the

 mass media and that's my creativity as a person, the solid, rigorous

 building of the Apollonian skills on one side of the brain, and then the

 free play. To me, this is the great model of the human mind. It's

 incredible to go back and forth between those two things. This is why I

 don't need anybody in my life, because I have so much in my brain playing

 with each other. It's fantastic.



 When I was in England early in the summer, I was interviewed by some

 Cambridge women and had an incredible intellectual conversation. They were

 full of knowledge and insight. There's no TV whatever in Cambridge.



 BRAND: So all they do is Neil Postman's long cool argument.



 PAGLIA: Well, no. Actually, drinking a lot is what they seem to be doing.

 I think it must be that their extreme, extreme development of words is so

 exhausting. The amount that the educated class is drinking there, I

 couldn't believe it. I saw the public drunkenness in Cambridge of

 university men, staggering drunkenness, and I thought, that's what they

 have instead of pop culture: alcohol.



 The minute I hit London I realized no one looks at each other. I asked

 people there, "How does anyone pick up anyone, how do you ever meet

 anyone?" I was told, "The men never look at you. They respect your

 privacy." Well, OK. I was near the British Museum and we were going to a

 lecture; I needed something to eat, and walked into a pub at 4 o'clock. It

 was respectable - intellectuals and so on. The drunkenness! You could feel

 the sex was in there, in the pubs and the drinking. We've got the sex in

 our popular culture, and the feminists hate it - "sex and violence!" - but

 I think ours is far healthier.



 This is a very healthy culture as long as we keep up the rigorous

 training. The kids' true culture is pop culture - they already live in

 that - so that's why I oppose all this use of TV in school. I want

 education movie-based, in the way that we had in college. From the moment

 I arrived in college in 1964 we were immersed in films. I saw something

 like 800 films. The true multiculturism is foreign films, foreign films

 with subtitles, so you hear the language. That's the way to teach sex, the

 way to talk about male/female sex roles: movies. The way to teach what

 Lacan or Foucault claim to be doing - the relativity of a memory - is

 "Last Year in Marienbad." Did they meet at Marienbad or not? The

 inflections of emotion on people's faces, interrelations of subtleties, of

 non verbal subtleties of interpersonal sexual relations, are shown by

 cinema. Date-rape feminists want to insist, "No always means no." You'd

 never believe that if you were seeing cinema.



 When I think about it, these were mint-condition films. I realize what an

 incredible gift I had. It was a magic moment. There had been the art

 houses in the '50s in the urban centers and suddenly my generation had

 film on the college campuses in the '60s. We were seeing films - Fellini,

 Antonioni - that were five years old. We saw prints in mint condition. No

 one anywhere has that now. The quality of the prints has degenerated, and

 the films are being shown as videos. The way you develop the eye is to see

 great photography, the great high-contrast black-and-white in those films.



 Here's my proposal. A proper job for funding of the arts is to underwrite

 a national consortium of archives of all the classic films. They are too

 expensive to maintain at individual colleges and universities. What I

 envision is, when you go to any college of four years, by your fourth

 year, by rotation, a superb print of every classic film will have been

 shown. We happen to have a very bad print of "Persona" at my school. I

 have to tell the class, "Remember that scene where Bibi Andersson is

 standing, wearing a black dress against a white wall? I have to describe

 to you what Sven Nykvist photography really looked like there. It's a

 blazing white, very rock textured stucco, deep textured. The glossy sun

 glints in her blond hair..."



 This is ridiculous. Classic films are major works of art, and this is

 where the funding should go.



 BRAND: Film had that depth and that quality. Would you also have a

 television course offered?



 PAGLIA: Well, a course in mass media to introduce the student to a history

 of the technologies, the way network news is put together, how different

 our advertisements are from those in Europe, and so on.



 BRAND: What about content? You watch soap operas, right? Which ones?



 PAGLIA: "The Young and the Restless" is my favorite. For 17 years I've

 been watching that. "As the World Turns" is my second favorite. I have the

 TV on with the sound off most of the day. Not early in the morning because

 at that point I'm still dreaming. I'm waking up and I want to remember my

 dreams, so I don't want too many images at that point. By mid-morning it

 is on, on for the rest of the day until 1. I've been poor up to now, and

 my dream is to have someday a bank of TVs, where all the different

 channels could be on and I could be monitoring them. I would love that.

 The more the better. I love the tabloid stuff. The trashier the program

 is, the more I feel it's TV.



 BRAND: Why?



 PAGLIA: Because that's TV's mode. That's the Age of Hollywood. The idea of

 PBS - heavy-duty "Masterpiece Theater," Bill Moyers - I hate all that.



 BRAND: How about the ads?



 PAGLIA: I love ads. There's a section on ads in Volume 2 of Sexual

 Personae. Like Andy Warhol, I have been in love with ads since my earliest

 childhood. That is the way I think. One of the reasons that I probably got

 this famous is because I think and talk in ad terms, in sound-bite terms.

 People say, "She promotes herself." When I was young, I thought in

 newspaper headline terms: "Paglia Falls Off Chair." I feel totally a part

 of mass media. Everyone knows ads are the best part of television, but the

 way the ads work - it's also the way MTV videos work - it's just flash

 flash flash images, symbol symbol symbol. You know, the way that ads are

 structured is not unlike the way the Catholic Church was plastered with

 ads, essentially, for saint this, saint that. To me there was an absolute

 continuity between the Catholic Church and ads.



 See, this is where I drew up my theory that popular culture is the

 eruption of the varied pagan elements in Western culture - that

 Judeo-Christianity never did defeat paganism as history books claim, but

 rather it was driven underground. We've had three major eruptions of

 paganism. One at the Renaissance, and most people would accept that.

 Another was Romanticism, when the chthonic or daemonic element came up

 with all those vampires and the nature cult. And now the third great

 eruption is the 20th century Age of Hollywood. Gore Vidal agrees.

 Hollywood is the great thing that America has done and given to the world.



 BRAND: What happens to those eruptions after a while? Do they eventually

 self-defeat?



 PAGLIA: Well, no, because each one of the eruptions became part of the

 fabric of the future. The eruption of paganism at the Renaissance led

 eventually to the recovery of science, and science has been the greatest

 challenge to Judeo-Christianity. Many want to get rid of the church and

 say it is the biggest source of evil. I hate that talk. A proper society

 will strengthen all its institutions. I want to strengthen the church and

 to strengthen the sex industry. I think they play off each other. Both

 should fight with each other and be strengthened. There will always be a

 craving for religion, and if we don't get it from Catholicism, which is a

 very profound system, you're going to get it from feminist ideology.



 BRAND: Are you glad of the Latin Mass coming back?



 PAGLIA: Where is it coming back?



 BRAND: A few Catholic churches apparently are bringing back the Latin

 Mass, and the hierarchy stopped forbidding it. People like it; they like

 the mysticism.



 PAGLIA: I thought that was a tremendous loss when the church dispensed

 with all that ceremony and imagery and beauty...



 BRAND: ...Priests turning their backs on the congregation...



 PAGLIA: ...Turning their backs. The hierarchy of it, the hieraticism of

 it, that sense of the holy, the mystical, the awesome. What they've got

 now is more authentically like early Christianity. You have a bunch of

 peasants sitting together and holding hands. But what I love is what

 Martin Luther saw was bad, which was the whole pagan element of the

 Italian Catholic Church, the heir of the Roman Empire.



 BRAND: You say pop culture is the third wave of pagan and chthonic stuff.

 You say chthonic stuff is dangerous, and you ride on its danger. Is pop

 culture dangerous?



 PAGLIA: Well, if the culture becomes only that, I think it is, because

 it's filled with hallucinations. Of course that's what I love about it.

 It's surreal. But there are practical realities in everyday life that have

 to be solved - the procedures of corporate life, of academic life, all of

 the boring things that have to be done in a systematic manner, and we have

 be taught those systems. The Apollonian systems also are a heritage of the

 Greco-Roman period. The Apollonian part of the brain is absolutely

 necessary for us to exist as rational citizens. The problem with the New

 Age stuff is it's like all up here, you know (gesturing vaguely aloft). As

 for the channelers, my acting students could do better accents. Credulity

 is a product of lack of rigorous education.



 Here's what I'm saying in my work. You need to pay homage to both Apollo

 and Dionysus. Both are great gods. Both must be honored. We need a balance

 between the two. That's all.



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                   DIGITAL CASH MINI-FAQ FOR THE LAYMAN



 By Jim Miller (Jim-Miller@suite.com)



 [If you're on the cypherpunks mailing list, you've already seen this.]



 Here's a description of digital cash that I recently wrote up.  I've

 intentionally generalized and oversimplified the descriptions to keep from

 getting bogged down in the details, but I feel the information is

 accurate.



 Q: How is digital cash possible?

 A: Public-key cryptography and digital signatures (both blind and

 non-blind signatures) make digital cash possible.  It would take too long

 to go into detail how public-key cryptography and digital signatures work.

 But the basic gist is that banks and customers would have public-key

 encryption keys.  Public-key encryption keys come in pairs.  A private key

 known only to the owner, and a public key, made available to everyone.

 Whatever the private key encrypts, the public key can decrypt, and vice

 verse.  Banks and customers use their keys to encrypt (for security) and

 sign (for identification) blocks of digital data that represent money

 orders.  A bank "signs" money orders using its private key and customers

 and merchants verify the signed money orders using the bank's widely

 published public key.  Customers sign deposits and withdraws using their

 private key and the bank uses the customer's public key to verify the

 signed withdraws and deposits.



 Q: Are there different kinds of digital cash?

 A: Yes.  In general, there are two distinct types of digital cash:

 identified digital cash and anonymous digital cash.  Identified digital

 cash contains information revealing the identity of the person who

 originally withdrew the money from the bank.  Also, in much the same

 manner as credit cards, identified digital cash enables the bank to track

 the money as it moves through the economy.  Anonymous digital cash works

 just like real paper cash.  Once anonymous digital cash is withdrawn from

 an account, it can be spent or given away without leaving a transaction

 trail.  You create anonymous digital cash by using numbered bank accounts

 and blind signatures rather than fully identified accounts and non-blind

 signatures.



 [To better understand blind signatures and their use with digital cash, I

 highly recommend skimming through chapters 1 - 6 of Bruce Schneier's book

 _Applied Cryptography_ (available at your favorite technical book store).

 Bruce does a very good job of describing the wide variety of interesting

 things you can do when you combine computers, networks, and cryptography.

 The first half-dozen chapters are quite readable, even to the layman.  He

 doesn't get into the heavy-duty math until later in the book.]



 There are two varieties of each type of digital cash: online digital cash

 and offline digital cash.  Online means you need to interact with a bank

 (via modem or network) to conduct a transaction with a third party.

 Offline means you can conduct a transaction without having to directly

 involve a bank.  Offline anonymous digital cash is the most complex form

 of digital cash because of the double-spending problem.



 Q: What is the double-spending problem?

 A: Since digital cash is just a bunch of bits, a piece of digital cash is

 very easy to duplicate.  Since the copy is indistinguishable from the

 original you might think that counterfeiting would be impossible to

 detect.  A trivial digital cash system would allow me to copy of a piece

 of digital cash and spend both copies.  I could become a millionaire in a

 matter of a few minutes.  Obviously, real digital cash systems must be

 able to prevent or detect double spending.



 Online digital cash systems prevent double spending by requiring merchants

 to contact the bank's computer with every sale.  The bank computer

 maintains a database of all the spent pieces of digital cash and can

 easily indicate to the merchant if a given piece of digital cash is still

 spendable.  If the bank computer says the digital cash has already been

 spent, the merchant refuses the sale.  This is very similar to the way

 merchants currently verify credit cards at the point of sale.



 Offline digital cash systems detect double spending in a couple of

 different ways.  One way is to create a special smart card containing a

 tamper-proof chip called an "Observer" (in some systems).  The Observer

 chip keeps a mini database of all the pieces of digital cash spent by that

 smart card.  If the owner of the smart card attempts to copy some digital

 cash and spend it twice, the imbedded Observer chip would detect the

 attempt and would not allow the transaction.  Since the Observer chip is

 tamper-proof, the owner cannot erase the mini-database without permanently

 damaging the smart card.



 The other way offline digital cash systems handle double spending is to

 structure the digital cash and cryptographic protocols so the identity of

 the double spender is known by the time the piece of digital cash makes it

 way back to the bank.  If users of the offline digital cash know they will

 get caught, the incidents of double spending will be minimized (in

 theory).  The advantage of these kinds of offline systems is that they

 don't require special tamper-proof chips.   The entire system can be

 written in software and can run on ordinary PCs or cheap smart cards.



 It is easy to construct this kind of offline system for identified digital

 cash.  Identified offline digital cash systems can accumulate the complete

 path the digital cash made through the economy.  The identified digital

 cash "grows" each time it is spent.  The particulars of each transaction

 are appended to the piece of digital cash and travel with it as it moves

 from person to person, merchant to vender.  When the cash is finally

 deposited, the bank checks its database to see if the piece of digital

 cash was double spent.  If the digital cash was copied and spent more than

 once, it will eventually appear twice in the "spent" database.  The bank

 uses the transaction trails to identify the double spender.



 Offline anonymous digital cash (sans Observer chip) also grows with each

 transaction, but the information that is accumulated is of a different

 nature.  The result is the same however.  When the anonymous digital cash

 reaches the bank, the bank will be able to examine it's database and

 determine if the digital cash was double spent.  The information

 accumulated along the way will identify the double spender.



 The big difference between offline anonymous digital cash and offline

 identified digital cash is that the information accumulated with anonymous

 digital cash will only reveal the identity of the spender if the cash is

 double spent.  If the anonymous digital cash is not double spent, the bank

 can not determine the identity of the original spender nor can it

 reconstruct the path the cash took through the economy.



 With identified digital cash, both offline or online, the bank can always

 reconstruct the path the cash took through the economy.  The bank will

 know what everyone bought, where they bought it, when they bought it, and

 how much they paid.  And what the bank knows, the IRS knows.



 By the way, did you declare that $20 bill your Grandmother gave you for

 your birthday?  You didn't?  Well, you wont have to worry about forgetting

 those sorts of things when everybody is using fully identified digital

 cash.  As a matter of fact, you wont even have to worry about filing a tax

 return.  The IRS will just send you a bill.



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           PATENT SEARCHING EMAIL SERVER is now open for business



 By Gregory Aharonian (srctran@world.std.com)





    APS PATENT SEARCHING ARRIVES ON THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    (well only in a real limited way for the time being :-)



 A few weeks ago, I announced plans to provide limited patent searching

 over the Internet, where you can get a list of patents by specifying the

 class/subclass.



 I have decided to do this in two stages.  To test out the email-server

 software I am writing, I first plan to allow email requests to retreive parts

 of the PTO classification manuals (see below).  Once things are running

 smoothly, I will then add the capability to retrieve patent titles by

 class/subclass.



 So feel free to start sending in requests to the address listed below:



 search@world.std.com



 wish me luck, and start thinking philanthropic.  By the way, if someone has a

 machine readable version of the WIPO international classification system,

 please send it to me so I can add it to the server.  At some point when I

 have lots of equipment, I will sort US patents by their international

 classification.



 Greg Aharonian

 Internet Patent News Service



                              ====================



                          Internet Patent News Service

                                 September 1994



                           PATENT TITLES EMAIL SERVER

                              search@world.std.com



 The Internet Patent News Service is pleased to announced the availability

 of the Patent Titles email server, where people can retrieve lists of patent

 titles dating back to 1970 for any USPTO class/subclass, and patent numbers

 for additional patents dating back to the 1800's.  The Patent Titles email

 server is the first step in our efforts to make the entire USPTO APS patent

 text database system accessible over the Internet.



 Approximately one gigabyte of data has been prepared and attached to the

 Internet.  As all of the equipment and network access is borrowed, I am

 limiting access to an email server until I get a better feel for demand for

 the data, and until I can raise funding to set up a proper Internet server.



 Unless the bandwidth and processing load overwhelms the equipment I am

 borrowing, the service will be free.



 To use the email server, send requests to the Internet address:



 search@world.std.com



 using any of the following commands sent as text in the body of the email

 message:



 SENDTO  account-name@internet.site.adr



 This command is mandatory of all requests and is where you specify the email

 address you want the information sent to. Occasionally From: lines in email

 addresses do not provide a correct return address (at least in my experience

 doing the Internet Patent News Service).



 SEND INTRO

 SEND HELP



 Either of these commands will return this message.



 SEND UCLASSES



 This command will return an index to the approximately 400 patent classes

 that are currently being used, for example:

 Class: 69     Leather Manufacturers



 SEND UCLASS XXX



 This command will return that section of the USPTO's Manual of Classification

 covering patent class XXX.  For example, the command "SEND CLASS 69" would

 return a list of all of the subclasses in Class 69 by number and title.

 These files range in size from 5K to 120K.  What follows is a section

 of Class 69:



  Subclass  Subclass

  Number    Title

  1       MACHINES

  1.5     .Belt-stretching

  3       .Horse collar shaping

  4       .Horse collar stuffing



 SEND UCLASS COMPUTING



 This command will return those sections of the USPTO's Manual of

 Classification covering patent classes 395 and 364, the two main classes

 dealing with hardware and software.



 SEND IPNSINFO



 This command will return an introductory message to my Internet Patent News

 Service.



 SEND CONSULT



 This command will return an introductory message to my patent searching

 consulting services I offer.



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 This command lets me know your request is actually a comment about the email

 server operation, or any inaccuracies you detect in the patent information

 being sent out.



 As I am parasiting the equipment to run the server (which basically means

 that I operate the server at nite and on weekends), please send your requests

 in at the end of the workday or on weekends.  Within a day or so, you will

 receive back ny email whatever you requested.



 SECURITY

 A very important concern for anyone using this email server is secrecy,

 that what they are searching for is not revealed to others. As a potential

 inventor, I appreciate this as much as anyone else.  While I plan to save the

 email addresses of people who use the server (but not their search request),

 no other information will be retained.  The email address information will be

 saved to study who, and how often, people are using the server.  I would

 appreciate any suggestions on how to ensure security beyond this.



 Please excuse any mishaps that occur as I get this service off the ground.

 This email server is a classic hack that will get better in time as people

 use it.  In turn, the experience gathered in running the server will be

 invaluable in demonstrating the feasibility of making massive amounts of

 patent data available over the Internet.



 Also, get ready for that voluntary registration fee I mention in my intro

 piece to the Internet Patent News Service.  If the Patent Titles email server

 is successful, and you all like it, this fall I plan to coordinate an effort

 to put all of the patent abstract information since 1970 onto the Internet,

 making it available through email servers, Gopher, WAIS and Mosaic. But first

 things first, getting the Patent Titles email server working.



Greg Aharonian

Internet Patent News Service



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            Five "Hackers" Indicted for Credit Card/Computer Fraud



 From CuD Moderators <cudigest@mindvox.phantom.com>

 Computer Underground Digest



 (AP WIRE - Thurs, Sept. 8, 1994)



     NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- "Dr. Demonicus," "Renegade" and four other

hackers used computers to steal credit card numbers and used them to

buy $210,000 in gold coins and high-tech hardware, federal prosecutors

said Wednesday (Sept 8, '94).



The nine-count indictment unsealed Wednesday charged five men from

Louisana and one from New York with conspiracy, computer fraud, access

device fraud and wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Eddie Jordan Jr. said.



Some fo their hacker nicknames were included. They were identified as

Dwayne "Dr. Demonicus" Comeger, 22; Brian Ursin, 21; John Christopher

"Renegade" Montegut, 24; Timothy "Revelation" Thompson, 21; James

McGee, 25; and Raymone "Wiseguy" Savage, 25, of Richmond Hills, N.Y.



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                              CLIPPER T-SHIRTS



 By Norman Harman (normh@crl.com)



 Information and opposition to the Clipper proposal is strong on the

 Internet.  But it is far too unknown to the 'outside' community.  Everyone

 concerned by this issue should inform all the people they know of its

 implications.  One way to increase awareness and show your opinion is to

 wear it:).



 I would like to offer an anti Clipper/Skipjack T-shirt.  They would be white

 with black printing and cost approximately $5.00 plus $2.90 shipping to US

 locations. That is the cost to produce one shirt.  I am trying to spread

 awareness not make money.



 I need to know if people are interested in this idea and what should the

 shirts say?



 Two quick ideas are:

    "Skip Skipjack"

    or

    "Just Say No to Clipper"



 Please send comments, suggestions, and questions to normh@crl.com.  If more

 than a few people are interested I will go ahead and have the shirts made

 and post how to get one.



 A worthy cause is better if it benefits another good cause so the shirts

 will be silk-screened by Zerolith, part of a non-profit organization that

 employs, shelters, and assists homeless youth.  If you would like to talk

 with Zerolith or donate money directly here is how to contact them.



         Zerolith

         3075 21st Street

         San Francisco, CA 94110-2626

         415.641.1014 voice

         415.641.1474 fax



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                            CYBERNEWS DEBUTS



 By Patrick Grote (patrick.grote@supportu.com)



                         *** PRESS RELEASE ***



 CyberNews

 11221 Manchester Rd., Suite 313, St. Louis, MO 63122

 Contact:    Patrick Grote, patrick.grote@supportu.com

 Phone:      (314) 984-9691

 FAX:        (314) 984-9981



 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



       CyberNews, A Monthly Publication,  Debuts With A Stunning

                    Success for Readers/Advertisers



 St. Louis, MO, September 8 _ CyberNews, a new monthly electronic

 publication, debuted today featuring over 25 hard hitting, real world

 software reviews, a tell all interview with shareware king Scott Miller

 of Apogee Software, the people that brought the world Castle Wolfenstein

 and a feature by the leaders in the Work at Home field, Paul and Sarah

 Edwards.



 CyberNews is unique in electronic publications, commonly referred to

 as zines, due to the fact they are advertiser supported and 85% of the

 information is generated from everyday people. "Too many reviews today

 are done to please the advertiser. Heck, most of the traditional press

 basically reprint press releases. People need to know what

 software/hardware works and what problems may crop up. Unbiased reviews

 are what we strive for," detailed Patrick Grote, Publisher, Marketing.



 Available in three formats, CyberNews is readable by anyone. A

 Windows Help file format supports a color graphical excursion that

 anyone with Windows, Windows for Workgroups or WindowsNT can view. "We

 wanted to bring the electronic publication into a new era of color and

 production," notes Roger Klein, Publisher, Production.



 The ASCII version features the ability to be enjoyed by anyone with

 a  PC, dumb terminal or device that has the ability to read standard

 ASCII text. According to Patrick Grote, Publisher, Marketing, "the goal

 was to make CyberNews as Internet friendly as possible. Since we use

 straight ASCII everyone who can access the Internet can read our

 publication."



    The ReadRoom format allows Sysops to add CyberNews to their BBS

 quickly without having to run a conversion program. "Sysops are the

 backbone of the information superhighway. They are engineer, designer,

 construction worker and user wrapped into one. We realized we can't

 ignore their needs," explained Publisher, Marketing, Patrick Grote.



        To grab latest issue of CyberNews, you can check these sources:



 Internet:   wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/zines

             polecat.law.indiana.edu:/pub/Incoming

             ftp.fonorola.net:/in.coming



 CompuServe: Work at Home (GO WORK in GENERAL LIBRARY), IBM APP

   (GO IBMAPP in ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS LIBRARY),

   Novell User (GO NOVUSER in NEW UPLOADS LIBRARY),

   International Trade Forum (GO TRADE in Section 1).



 FidoNet:       You can freq the files 1:100/380:

 CYBER  - All three versions

 CYBERR - The ReadRoom version.

 CYBERA - The ASCII version.

 CYBERW - The Windows version.



 Delphi: PCSIG



 America Online: Computing and Software



 Email: Send requests or questions to subscribe@supportu.com



 PG - Publisher, CyberNews, patrick.grote@supportu.com

 A Publication on the Leading Edge - 09/13/94



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         PC MAGAZINE DECARES THE PIPELINE BEST INTERNET SERVICE



 By James Gleick (gleick@pipeline.com)



 We at the Pipeline are very pleased to announce that the editors of PC

 Magazine, comparing all the major Internet service providers from America

 Online and Delphi down to the Pipeline, have declared that our young

 service is the best choice.



 We have a lot of room for improvement, we know, but coming in our first

 year, this is gratifying.



 "A true beauty queen," Robin Raskin, PC Magazine's editor, writes in the

 October 11 issue. "The Pipeline is an elegantly conceived program; we've

 seldom seen a Version 1.x program that's as well thought out. Watch as the

 Pipeline continues to grow; the Internet will be a better place because of

 this package."



 We hope so. Anyway, we'd like to take the opportunity to offer Internet

 users (or would-be Internet users) a free copy of our software, to try

 out in demo mode. It's available for Windows or Macintosh. Send your

 address to windisk@pipeline.com or macdisk@pipeline.com. For general

 information, you may send email to info@pipeline.com.



 James Gleick

 The Pipeline



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              SCOUT REPORT SUBSCRIPTIONS EXCEED 10,000 MARK



 From InterNIC Info Scout (scout@is.internic.net)



 To all InterNauts:



 Subscriptions for the Scout Report have exceeded 10,000!



 And 10,000 InterNauts can't be wrong!



 To celebrate this milestone, this week's Scout Report will be a double

 issue and include many resources you may have missed during the recent

 end-of-summer weeks.  It's now Fall, so clean out those electronic

 closets and make room for some new 'Net resources ready for exploration!

 The September 16 issue will also include an expanded NetBytes section to

 accommodate a large number of recently released sources of information

 about using the Internet.



 If you haven't yet subscribed or told your friends and colleagues, now is

 the time. Spread the news by word-of-net.  Below are instructions for

 subscribing or receiving a copy of this week's issue by email, gopher, and

 WWW.



 The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by InterNIC Information

 Services to assist InterNauts in their ongoing quest to know what's new

 on and about the Internet. It focuses on those resources thought to be of

 interest to the InterNIC's primary audience, researchers and educators,

 however everyone is welcome to subscribe and there are no associated

 fees.



 The Scout Report is posted on the InterNIC InfoGuide's gopher and

 WorldWideWeb servers where you can easily follow links to the resources

 which interest you. Past issues are stored on the InfoGuide for quick

 reference, and you can search the InfoGuide contents to find the specific

 references you need.  The Scout Report is also distributed in an HTML

 version for use on your own host, providing fast local access for yourself

 and other users at your site.



 Join thousands of your colleagues already using the Scout Report as a

 painless tool for tracking what's new on the 'Net!



 Best regards,

 InterNIC Info Scout



 Scout Report Contents



 Subject-oriented online resources are organized by access method:



 *  WWW

 *  Gopher

 *  Email/FTP



 Resources and announcements related to the network are included in:



 *  National Information Infrastructure

 *  NetBytes



 Recreational resources for perusing after hours (of course) are listed

 here:



 *  Weekend Scouting



 *** New section coming the week of September 23 -- a place for selected

 interesting services on the 'Net which are fee based, provided by

 commercial organizations, or best of all, offer virtual shopping:



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 **  To receive the email version of the Scout Report automatically each

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 *----------------------------------------------------------------

 Copyright 1994 General Atomics.



 The InterNIC provides information about the Internet and the resources on

 the Internet to the US research and education community under the

 National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement No. NCR-9218749. The

 Government has certain rights in this material.



 Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in

 this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily

 reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, General Atomics,

 AT&T, or Network Solutions, Inc.



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          IMPORTANT PROCLAMATION: THE FUTURE OF THE NET IS AT HAND!



 By James "Kibo" Parry (kibo@world.std.com)



 P R O C L A M A T I O N   &   M A N I F E S T O

 ***********************************************



 WHEREAS, the computer network named USENET has insurmountable flaws:



 => It is cluttered with thousands of disorganized groups.

 => It is difficult to use due to the various software interfaces.

 => It is infected with viruses, especially in the .signatures.

 => There is no formal rulebook and no official administration.

 => Bozos abound.

 => Power-crazed maniacs frequently try to manipulate Usenet at their whim.



 These problems are most important.  THEREFORE, in an official and secret

 democratic vote, Kibo has been duly elected LEADER OF THE NET.  To correct

 this heinous situation, LEADER KIBO has decided to take bold measures,

 a brave new initiative, detailed herein.



 WAKE UP, IT'S 1994!  THE FUTURE WILL NOT WAIT FOR A VOTE!



 Here is what Leader Kibo has decided--what MUST be done--what WILL be done:



 PHASE ONE.  GLOBAL RMGROUPS FOR ALL USENET GROUPS WILL BE

             ISSUED ON 4/15/94, 06:00 GMT.



 A Day Without Usenet shall pass, and it will be a time of rest for

 government employees.  Many will discover life, or at least television.

 Desperate soc.singles readers will have nervous breakdowns.  ClariNet

 will go bankrupt.  UUNET's modems will cool off.  The world

 will rotate a full three hundred sixty degrees just the same.



 Every Usenet group, and all its associated problems, will have been

 wiped off the face of the Earth forever by the might of the rmgroup.

 Of course, to prevent any power-crazed maniacs from putting the

 groups back, the newsgroup `control' will be rmgrouped FIRST.  Thus,

 the situation will be permanent.  Nobody will undo the Pax Kibotica!



 PHASE TWO.  NEWGROUPS FOR THE GROUPS IN THE NEW HIERARCHY WILL

             BE ISSUED ON 4/16/43, 06:00 GMT.



 The new network shall be named HAPPYNET, as it will be a Better Place.

 Usenet is dead.  Long live HappyNet!



 ********* HAPPYNET: THE NET THAT'S HAPPIER THAN YOU! *********



 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ALL-WISE LEADER KIBO,

 THE NEW NETWORK SHALL BE ORGANIZED THUSLY:



 Three hierarchies encompassing ALL HUMAN DISCOURSE:



 =>  nonbozo.*



 =>  bozo.*



 =>  megabozo.*



 All topics discussed on Usenet, and even deeper topics which COULD

 be discussed on Usenet but AREN'T, will fit nicely in those three--

 NO EXCEPTIONS.  Extensive time and motion studies have been

 performed in the name of efficiency to maximize your pleasure!

 Existing groups will be moved into the new organization

 scheme, resulting in nonbozo.news.announce.newusers, bozo.rec.pets,

 megabozo.talk.bizarre, nonbozo.comp.virus, bozo.alt.sex,

 megabozo.alt.fan.lemurs, bozo.postmodern, megabozo.org.mensa,

 nonbozo.clari.news.urgent, megabozo.megabozo.megabozo.religion.kibology,

 etc., as determined by scientific measurements of the bozosity of the

 groups, measured by Leader Kibo's Council On Scientific Bozosity and the

 faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY), world leaders in

 bozosity assessment.  These truly scientific procedures were developed

 and pre-tested by Drs. Todd M. McComb and Tim Gallagher and are patented

 to prove that they are good!



 It is estimated that the statistical breakdown of HappyNet will be thus:



  1.0000%  nonbozo.*

 90.0000%  bozo.*

  9.0000%  megabozo.*     (Computations courtesy of Bell Labs)



 Bozo.* will, of course, be subdivided logically:  bozo.nerd.*, bozo.tv.*,

 bozo.inane.*, bozo.boring.*, bozo.sex.*, bozo.argue.*.



 New groups will also be added for MAXIMUM ENJOYMENT.  The network would

 be a very unfair place if only Leader Kibo were allowed to propose new

 groups.  Instead, because Leader Kibo is benevolent and omnisagaciously

 father-like, he will create WHATEVER GROUP YOU WANT (even, say,

 megabozo.kibo.is.a.blenny!) provided that (a) you follow the Official

 Procedure, filing all five copies of your request in triplicate and then

 making seven carbons of each, and (b) you pay Leader Kibo $160 for each

 letter in the new group's name, and $720 for each period.  UNLIKE SOMEARCHAIC SYSTEMS, VOWELS DO NOT COST EXTRA.  PAT SAJAK IS EVIL!



 Of course, thanks to Leader Kibo's awesome foresight, new groups will

 probably not be needed.  A simple computer program will generate all

 groupnames from *.aaaaa.aaaaa.aaaaa.aaaaa to *.zzzzz.zzzzz.zzzzz.zzzzz.

 This will encompass ALL possibilities in a COMPLETELY LOGICAL FASHION,

 maximally efficient yet FUN!  Prudence and foresight by LEADER KIBO!



 There will even be a .d group for every regular group.  In fact,

 the .d groups will even have their own .d.d groups for metadiscussion

 of whether or not the new .d.d.d and .d.d.d.d groups are needed at all!



 The wealth of new groups will also cut down on those annoying egomaniacal

 posters who try to post the same article to EVERY group, because it will

 become physically impossible to post to ALL groups within a MORTAL LIFETIME!



 But wait, there's more--over six billion groups MORE will be added at

 HappyNet's inception--free of charge!



 ********* HAPPYNET: EVERYONE IS EQUALLY EQUAL! *********



 To promote EQUALITY and POLITICAL CORRECTNESS (the good kind), Leader

 Kibo has decided to correct the inequality of the distribution of

 "personal" groups.  Some people, or groups of people, currently are

 popular enough to have groups named in their honor: alt.weemba,

 alt.fan.john-palmer, alt.fan.monty-python, alt.fan.dave-barry,

 alt.fan.mike-jittlov, alt.fan.naked-guy, alt.religion.kibology,

 alt.fan.alok-vijayvargia, alt.fan.harry-mandel.  Because everyone is

 equal before the eyes of wise Leader Kibo, it was decided that EVERYONE

 WILL HAVE THEIR OWN GROUP on HappyNet.  This will celebrate the

 global diversity of our users, demonstrating for once and for all

 that they are all unique, but unique in exactly the same way!



 A scientific questionnaire developed specifically for the purpose will be

 mailed to everyone on the planet.  It will read:



   Dear Citizen Of The New Network,



   You are being given your own HappyNet group.  Its placement

   will depend on your answer to this simple question.



   ARE YOU A BOZO? (CHECK EXACTLY ONE)    [] YES   [] NO



                                  I care,

                                  Leader Kibo



 People who answer "yes" will be given groups in bozo.personal.*, and

 people who answer "no" will be given groups in megabozo.personal.*.

 People who refuse to answer, or show contempt for the process, will be

 taken (by the Network Security Patrol Force) to the Citadel Of Judgment

 to appear before the Council Of Bozosity, who will examine the person and

 assign them either bozo.weenie.* or megabozo.weenie.*.



 Of course, this would be POINTLESS if anyone in the world were DENIED

 ACCESS to HappyNet.



 ********* HAPPYNET: A NET IN EVERY POT! *********



 Net access will be provided to EVERY SINGLE PERSON, LIVING, UNBORN, OR

 DEAD, thanks to the new TELESCREENS which will be installed in every room

 of every building on the planet.  Not only will this encourage higher net

 communications volume, it will also help Leader Kibo be a good leader, as

 it will allow Leader Kibo to instantly broadcast to all his subjects, and

 to see how they are feeling and what they are doing.



 But simple TELESCREENS in LIVING ROOMS, BEDROOMS, and BATHROOMS are

 not enough to ensure FREEDOM and EQUALITY.  Neural transceivers will

 be implanted, FREE, at BIRTH in all newborns, allowing them to "jack in"

 to HappyNet, transmitting articles, sounds, and even GIF files at

 the speed of thought!  They won't even have to worry about spelling--

 they'll just THINK and their EVERY THOUGHT will be broadcast into

 EVERYONE ELSE'S HEADS!



 And because Leader Kibo CARES and values YOUR opinion, this will even

 allow Leader Kibo to know what his subjects are THINKING, thanks to the

 heroic actions of the NETWORK SECURITY PATROL FORCE.



 ********* HAPPYNET: WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING *********



 The Network Security Patrol Force, or NSPF, will be composed of volunteer

 system administrators who wish to enforce the continued accuracy,

 relevance, and acceptability of HappyNet postings.  They will monitor,

 censor, and cancel bad postings, made by EVIL SUBVERSIVES who attempt to

 DEPRIVE you of your HAPPINESS.  These SUPPRESSIVE PERSONS will be

 hunted down and suppressed!



 NSPF officers have really spiffy uniforms, especially the shiny gas masks,

 well-balanced batons, six-inch-thick shoulder pads and twelve-inch cleats.



 And, of course, they will punish evildoers, night or day.  HappyNet

 never sleeps.



 ******* HAPPYNET: SLEEP TIGHT WITH ALL THE SECURITY IN THE WORLD! *********



 But what of those EVIL organizations that simply want to SPY on you?  Well,

 the NSPF won't have to even TRY to prevent that, because the LOGICAL PLAN

 of HAPPYNET will defeat that automatically!  If some three-letter government

 agency wants to SCAN all articles for WORDS LIKE "NUCLEAR BOMB" or

 "WHITEWATER", it will be IMPOSSIBLE because not even the fastest

 computer in the WORLD--the CRAY-9000--could search ALL THOSE GROUPS, EVER!!!



 ********* HAPPYNET: ACCURACY IS EVERYTHING ON HAPPYNET! *********



 Here are examples of infractions against the unwritten rules of HappyNet,

 and the punishments the NSPF will bring against the villains.





 .signature longer than four lines: Forced to read "War And Peace" at 110

 baud.



 .signature has giant ASCII graphic: Forced to read "War And Peace" at 110

 baud on a Braille terminal after having fingers rubbed with sandpaper.



 Posting an article consisting solely of "Me too!": Poster's legal name is

 officially changed to "Me Too".



 Calling a newsgroup a "bboard" or "notesfile": Forced to memorize

 Webster's Ninth.



 Spelling "too" as "to", "it's" as "its", "lose" as "loose", "you're"

 as "your", or any of the following--"wierd", "Anti-Semetic", "senerio",

 or "masterbation": Forced to write out Webster's Ninth ten times.



 Asking what ":-)" means: Drawing, quartering, and turning sideways.



 Using "<g>" instead of ":-)": being sent back to GEnie, AOL, Delphi, etc.



 Sending a newgroup message without permission of Leader Kibo: Poster is

 forced to adopt twelve wacky sitcom children.



 Posting flames outside of a *.flame group: Poster is allowed to read only

 groups about fluffy puppies.



 Posting "Please send e-mail, since I don't read this group": Poster is

 rendered illiterate by a simple trepanation.



 *Plonk*ing outside talk.bizarre: Poster is *plonked*--LITERALLY.



 Asking for people to send cards to Craig Shergold:  Poster must answer

 all of Craig's mail.



 Posting the "Dave Rhodes: MAKE MONEY FAST" scam:  Poster must answer all

 of Craig's and Dave's mail while also memorizing the script to every

 episode of "Knight Rider" and doing voice exercises like saying

 "NANCY, HAND THE MAN THE DANDY CANDY" ten million times and also

 being forced to eat cottage cheese we found piled up on the sidewalk.



 Posting to aus.* from the USA: Poster is deported to Australia after having

 a "Kick Me, Mate" sign glued to their forehead.



 Posting an article with a malformed address so that mail bounces when

 people reply: Poster and/or their admin are sent back to kindergarten.



 .signature huge script letters: Poster is forced to tattoo HappyNet

 slogans on their body in huge script letters.



 Excess CAPITALIZATION & PUNCTUATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Poster is issued a new

 keyboard without capitals or punctuation.  The space bar will be clearly

 labelled.



 *Excess*asterisks*in*.signature*: Poster is hit with one shuriken for

 each asterisk.



 Articles quoted in followup, but no new semantic content appended: Poster

 is forced to watch a "Small Wonder" marathon on cable TV.



 Advertising on the net: Poster is forced to pay Leader Kibo for the

 advertising time.



 Asking help for some program but not saying what sort of computer you're

 using: Poster's computer is reduced to 1K RAM.



 Arguing over whose computer is better: Being introduced to Leader Kibo,

 whose custom Turbissimo MoNDO Zeugma 6866688786/XA/sxe/IV computer is far

 better than theirs and will make them cry in humiliation.



 Giving away the secret of "The Crying Game": No punishment.



 Making fools of people in rec.org.mensa with pranks: No punishment

 necessary for something that simple.  After all, some people could

 even do it by accident.



 Referring to the NSPF as "The Thought Police": Execution.



 Humor impairment: Execution.



 Saying "Imminent death of the net predicted!": Imminent execution of

 poster predicted.



 Mentioning Star Trek outside of the Star Trek groups: "Star Trek:

 Deep Space Nine" is cancelled, and all tapes of the original series are

 burned.  William Shatner will direct all future movies.





 There are other helpful rules and regulations, but they are double secret.



 Of course, various branches of the NSPF will specialize in various

 enforcements: the Spelling Squad, the Grammar Goons, the Definition

 Draconians, the Typo Tyrants, the Capitalization Captains, the Pedantic

 Patriots, the Cross-Post Crushers, the Cascade Commandos, and

 the .signature .specialforce.  There will even be a special detail to

 track down, and burn, copies of the Green Golfball Joke.



 ********* HAPPYNET: MODERATION IN ALL THINGS! *********



 The concept of moderated groups will be retained for a few groups,

 with minor changes.



 Alt.flame (renamed megabozo.alt.flame) will be moderated by Dave Lawrence,

 as his news.announce.newgroups duties have been assumed by Leader Kibo.

 Dick Depew will be assigned the task of making up an imaginative

 Message-ID for every article in the world.  (He will also unleash random

 daemons onto the net to destroy the unpleasant signal to noise ratio

 completely.)



 A program that determines how funny an article is by measuring the

 frequency of the "k" sound (an elementary comedic principle discovered in

 Kukamonga, Arkansas) will replace rec.humor.funny moderator Maddi Hausmann,

 allowing her to devote full time to assisting Brad Templeton's

 nonbozo.clarinet.* duties.



 Serdar Argic will be the official underliner of HappyNet.  Every time

 the word "turkey" is mentioned, he will post a followup underlining and

 circling it.  This will be a tremendous help to people looking for

 low-fat recipes.



 Jay O'Connell has volunteered to personally deliver an envelope labelled

 THESE ARE ALL THE TOPLESS PICTURES OF MARINA SIRTIS THERE ARE to all

 users to prevent them from asking for them over and over.  This should

 reduce the bandwidth by an estimated 90%.



 Iain Sinclair will ensure that the link between Australia and the rest of

 the world is down on a regular schedule, instead of an irregular one.

 He has also been commissioned to design the NSPF uniforms, with the

 blessings of the Florida Citrus Council and the California Leather Council.



 And, of course, a world-class anonymous-posting server will be

 established.  Not only will it remove your name from your postings (so

 that you don't have to worry about defending your opinions) but it will

 also eliminate the opinions themselves.  Thus, don't be surprised to see

 a lot of anonymous postings in bozo.alt.sex.stories saying simply

 "I have no opinion on homosexuality."  HappyNet will help us all to get

 along, even the people with no names.



 But what about those disclaimers that state that your opinion is not

 that of IBM, McDonalds, MIT, Scientology, etc.?



 Disclaimers are NOT required on articles, therefore you MUST include

 the following:



   DISCLAIMER: THIS DISCLAIMER IS NOT REQUIRED BY LEADER KIBO.

   THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF LEADER KIBO.

   THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT NECESSARILY DISAGREE WITH LEADER KIBO EITHER.

   HAVE A NICE DAY!



 Also, for your protection, Leader Kibo has filed a copyright claim on

 HappyNet.  Thus, any postings without a copyright notice become the

 intellectual property of Kibo.  This will keep random people from

 commercially exploiting your ideas, because they won't be

 YOUR ideas any more!  It's THAT SIMPLE.  STREAMLINE EVERYTHING!



 ******** HAPPYNET: A BLAST TO LIGHT OUR GLOWING FUTURE! ********



 HappyNet as currently implemented is just one communications medium.

 But this will blast our way into the foundation of the future:

 Eventually, HappyNet will be expanded to replace the other

 `conventional' media, such as newspapers, television, radio, standup

 comedy, and sex.  .signatures will be sixty-second commercials.  Alt.sex

 (bozo.alt.sex) will be interactive and finally worth reading.



 A PBS series, "Great RFCs, Past and Present" will be filmed to replace

 the boring old text RFCs.  A Fox series, hosted by Dr. Ruth Westheimer,

 will replace "Emily Postnews".



 The Sony Walkman will become obsolete thanks to the Sony rnman.  The

 instructions will be on a separate device, the Sony manman.



 Once everyone in the world is hooked into the giant HappyNet neural

 network and their brains merge into one gigantic community of mind

 (with an IQ well over THREE HUNDRED!), local events will be instantly

 communicated everywhere in the world.  For example, people in Sri Lanka

 will be able to INSTANTLY receive dozens of "Hey, we're having a minor

 earthquake here in San Francisco RIGHT NOW!" postings INSTANTLY, instead

 of having to wait weeks.  Rumors of such important events as DeForest

 Kelley's death will also propagate instantly, but this is not really

 a drawback: it enables the NSPF to detect them and snuff them out faster!



 HappyNet is an important part of this well-balanced future.  In fact,

 it is the ONLY part.  Without HappyNet, there could be no future.

 Usenet paves the road to misery and ruin with its cascades, cross-posts,

 flame wars, forgeries, and .signature viruses.  HappyNet does not pave

 this road--where it's going, we don't NEED roads!  HappyNet bravely

 journeys into an unknown, but not unpleasant future.  Everyone WILL

 be happy, happier than human beings can possibly be.



 Although it will take HappyNet months, maybe years, to improve all

 areas of daily existence in all possible ways, it will be obvious to

 the most casual reader that HappyNet is better than Usenet.

 Those who aren't casual readers--well, they will come to agree.

 In time, they will even love me.  In fact, soon they will beg to

 love me!  But I, Leader Kibo, want only the best for everyone.

 After all, I am one of the readers of Usenet, so I can make the

 readers of Usenet happy by making me happy FIRST.  DEATH TO USENET!

 LONG LIVE HAPPYNET!  TO THE MOON!



 ********* HAPPYNET: YOU CONTROL HOW IT CONTROLS YOU *********



 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



 [Editor's Note: Here is a FAQ from a very cool program. It is like the

  ultimate information database, but has a humorus kick to it. I will

  soon be published in this program. So, here's the FAQ. I highly suggest

  that you ftp the software.]



        ALT.GALACTIC-GUIDE FAQ -- MONTHLY POSTING -- Mk. II Release 1.1



 By Steve Baker (swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu)

 Organization: Project Galactic Guide Mothership



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             Project Galactic Guide Frequently Asked Questions



                FAQ  Mk. II  Release 1.1  18 September 1994





 This is the Mostly All-New FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) information file

 for the Usenet group alt.galactic-guide.  This file is intended to provide

 you with answers to your frequently asked questions and is 97% fat-free with

 no preservatives or artificial flavours.





 Contents

 --------

 1.0  What is this newsgroup?

 2.0  Who's in charge around here?

 2.1  So who do I send articles to?

 3.0  Format of the articles

 3.1  Article content and legal stuff

 3.2  So where can I get article ideas then?

 3.3  The article lifecycle

 4.0  The PGG Mothership

 4.1  Mothership mirror sites

 4.2  Supported computer platforms

 4.3  Other ways to get PGG materials

 5.0  World-Wide Web (WWW) sites

 6.0  Miscellaneous questions





 1.0  What is this newsgroup?

 ----------------------------

 This newsgroup was created for the sole purpose of allowing uninterrupted

 communication between people involved in Project Galactic Guide.  What is

 this project, you ask?



 It all started back in, oh, November of 1991 in the alt.fan.douglas-adams

 newsgroup.  For the uninformed, Douglas Adams is the author of a series

 of humourous s/f books centering on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

 In these books, the characters write for and frequently consult a sort of

 electronic encyclopedia which has an entry on just about everything.



 Paul said, "Hey, why don't we create a REAL guide to the galaxy?" and

 everyone else said, "Sounds good, let's do it!".  So, with great fervor

 we started working on the skeletal structure of Project Galactic Guide,

 although at that time, we often called it "The HitchHiker's Guide the Known

 Galaxy."



 It was originally supposed to be about REAL things (as opposed to made-up

 things), but we eventually broke down and decided to incorporate

 EVERYTHING.  So, now we'll take humorous entries about fictitious things

 (done in the Douglas Adams style, of course), and humorous entries about

 real things (also done in the Douglas Adams style, of course).





 2.0  Who's in charge around here?

 ---------------------------------

 Well, not anyone, really.  Er, actually, I suppose there *are* a couple of

 froods who tend to have a bit more input about things than others, but

 really it's mostly chaotic.  Well, not actually *chaotic* but instead maybe

 something a bit more like a good recess.



 The aforementioned Paul Clegg is one of PGG's Founding Fathers.  He is

 easily identifiable by his "...Paul" signature.  Paul wrote the first PGG

 FAQ, upon which this document is derived.  Today, Paul's an Editor and has

 many Wise Things to say about topics, issues, concerns, thoughts, ideas,

 problems, suggestions, and comments.  His action figure should be available

 for the holiday season (along with the PGG Mothership playset), and he is

 available via email at:  cleggp@rpi.edu



 Steve Baker helped get the project rolling with his "The Guide!" software

 for IBM/MS-DOS machines in the spring of 1992.  Steve usually answers to

 the nom de plume "Stevadelic."  Today, Steve's an Editor, the Librarian,

 Captain of the PGG Mothership, and actively avoids doing required updates

 and bug fixes to the TG! system.  (He claims to be too busy working on

 Klingon language translation software.)  You can send email to Steve at

 the address:  swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu



 Roel van der Meulen joined the project in the fall of 1993, and is an

 active PGG Field Researcher Recruiter (he finds new articles and authors

 for PGG, in addition to his own work).  He also maintains the PGG archives

 contents file and one of the fine WWW sites.  Roel's Internet email address

 is:  vdmeulen@rulrol.leidenuniv.nl



 Jeff Kramer is compiling the "PGG Report," a regular newsletter with lots

 of great information about the Project and its activities.  He also admin's

 one of the PGG WWW sites.  Jeff is available at:  lthumper@bga.com



 Ryan Tucker provides articles, ideas, and crazy text art (like the FAQ

 logo), as well as up-to-date Iowa weather reports (as long as there's a

 tornado).  Ryan's available at:  rtucker@worf.infonet.net



 There's a lot of others out there who have contributed t-shirt designs,

 press card information, articles, ideas, suggestions, comments, et al...

 but to avoid this becoming one of those "Hi folks"-type things, I'll just

 leave it at that.





 2.1  So who do I send articles to?

 ----------------------------------

 Paul is available from September until April or May (during the college

 school year), and Steve is on-line and available year-round.  Both Paul

 and Steve also have America Online accounts, so they're available there

 as well.  Now that I think about it, Steve actually collects email accounts

 (he's now up to six different active, on-line email accounts, which is

 quite a lot of passwords to get straight).



 To answer the question, however, let's just say that you should send

 articles to one of the PGG Editors:



      cleggp@rpi.edu                       -- Paul

      swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu         -- Steve



 We also have a third editor, Michael Bravo, who handles articles written

 in the Russian language.  If you have written an article in Russian, please

 send them to Michael (mbravo@octopus.spb.su).





 3.0  Format of the articles

 ---------------------------

 The articles that are accepted are organized by category and compiled in

 article "archives."  Each archive file contains 25 accepted Guide entries.

 These archives are stored and available for download from the PGG

 Mothership.



 We've decided upon a simple ASCII text format for the article entries.  The

 specs on the format are contained in the "article.new" file.  It's really

 pretty simple, with just a few header token-type things that define useful

 stuff.



 The fine folks at PGG spent about a year discussing, debating, formulating,

 postulating, configuring, finalizing, and neglecting a nifty but complex

 text format.  It was complete with crazy text formatting things and lots of

 other fun and wonderful features, but it never really caught on.  Oh well.



 We're currently investigating the possibilities of porting the article

 archives into HTML (HyperText Markup Language) for use with html and WWW

 viewers.  For now, however, standard ASCII files are just fine!





 3.1  Article content and legal stuff

 ------------------------------------

 You're welcome to write about anything.  Yes, no matter how bizarre or

 crazy, please write about it.  Really.  Anything.



 Er, except, we don't want you to regurgitate Adams' material.  Not only is

 this very unoriginal, it's also known as plagiarism.  (Unless DNA himself

 decides to write it for us!)



 In general, please do NOT copy other people's work or ideas.  We don't want

 the project stopped because we violated some silly copyright law!





 3.2  So where can I get article ideas then?

 -------------------------------------------

 We have a PGG Idea Bank, chock full of great ideas that beg for exploring.

 They're frequently posted to the alt.galactic-guide newsgroup, and all are

 available on-line at the Mothership.



 When posting an idea, be sure to include your name and email address for

 proper credit down the road.  Conversely, when using an idea, just go ahead

 and write your article and credit the idea's originator in the header

 information.





 3.3  The article lifecycle

 --------------------------

 This describes what your Friendly Neighbourhood PGG Editor does and presents

 "a day in the life of an article" so to speak.  Erm, actually, the articles

 themselves don't really speak much; that's just an expression, so let's

 carry on.



 1) A young, up-and-coming comedian/researcher/student/author/human/whatever

    stumbles across, gets hit with, becomes infected by, is arrested in, or

    otherwise has a great idea for an article (or consults the Ideabank,

    which is sometimes less painful).



    She/he/it/they then write an article about the person/place/thing and

    send the article to an editor via email.  (Please see Section 2.1,

    above, for info on who the editors are and where to send stuff.)



 2) The editor send a message back to the author, stating something like:

    "Blah blah, thanks for the article, blah blah blah, I'll edit it for

    format and stuff, blah blah, you'll get it back pretty soon for author

    confirmation, blah blah, give me all your money, etc. etc."



    This message is the author's "receipt" that the editor received the

    article submission.  If you don't get one of these, then the editor

    hasn't received your article yet!



 4) The editor edits the article and performs routine grammar and spell-

    checker things on the article.  Note: if the editor thinks that the

    article (1) violates a copyright law, (2) is a copy of other work, or

    (3) is hopelessly lame, the editor may nix the article for good.



 5) Assuming that everything is fine with the article, the editor then sends

    it back to the author for "author confirmation."  (This is often times

    abbreviated as A/C.  Humm, if the author and the editor had a Direct

    Connection, would this be AC/DC?)



 6) The author reviews the modified article, and then lets the editor know

    that things are alright.  If the author has additional changes with the

    article, they go back to step one and start over.



 7) Once the article is approved, the editor assigns the unique Article ID

    information and sends the article to the PGG Librarian.  The Librarian

    adds the approved article into the article archives and posts the

    article to alt.galactic-guide.





 4.0  The PGG Mothership

 -----------------------

 The Mothership is an Anonymous FTP site where you can download PGG info,

 articles, programs, t-shirt images, reports, and other great stuff.  To

 get to the PGG Mothership, FTP to the following site:



      Lexical:    vela.acs.oakland.edu

      Numeric:    141.210.10.2

      URL:        ftp://vela.acs.oakland.edu/pub/galactic-guide



 When you connect, use the [ anonymous ] user ID and specify your full

 Internet email address as the password.



 The Mothership is [ pub/galactic-guide ], which is actually just a link

 to [ pub/swbaker ].  Thus, if you're using an FTP server which doesn't show

 the logical links, go into the [ swbaker ] directory.



 Anyway, beneath this directory are additional directories for each of

 the particular computer programs and general Hitchhiker's Guide fan stuff.

 There is a separate FAQ file on the PGG Mothership which describes these

 directories and the files they contain in more detail.





 4.1  Mothership mirror sites

 ----------------------------

 If having all of the PGG archives, programs, gif files, and other goodies

 at one centralized location isn't good enough for you, you may be pleased

 to know that it isn't!  That is to say, the stuff is available from more

 than one Anonymous FTP site.



 The PGG Mothership is mirrored at:



      Lexical:     ftp.cs.city.ac.uk

      Numeric:     138.40.91.9

      URL:         ftp://ftp.cs.city.ac.uk/pub/galactic-guide





 4.2  Supported computer platforms

 ---------------------------------

 While having the articles themselves is pretty fun, actually being able to

 do something with them is even better.  The following computer platforms

 are supported with PGG article reader systems:



      o  Acorn Archimedes

         Author contact: Alex McLintock (alexmc@biccdc.co.uk)



      o  Amiga



      o  Atari ST



      o  IBM/MS-DOS (also works within Windows, OS/2, DESQview, etc.)

         Author contact: Steve Baker (swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu)



      o  Macintosh

         Author contact: Rickard Andersson (rickard@softlab.se)



      o  Unix

         Author contact: Dave Gymer (dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk)



      o  X Windows

         Author contact: David Squire (squizz@cs.curtin.edu.au)



 Each of the programs is available in its own subdirectory on the Mothership.

 Questions about a particular program's use or functionality should be

 directed to the program's author or posted to alt.galactic-guide.





 4.3  Other ways to get PGG materials

 ------------------------------------

 There's a lot of BBS systems that carry Project Galactic Guide stuff.

 Honestly -- I'm positive there's a lot of them... although the FAQ file

 doesn't really reflect this.  Yet.  Just give us some time and soon

 this list will have a lot of numbers.  Really.



      Area/Region       BBS Name                          Number

      ---------------   ------------------------------    ----------------

      Mass., USA        Sea of Noise                      +1 203 886 1441





 In addition, you may contact one of the following hoopy froods who have

 volunteered to distribute PGG materials in their local countries:



      Country           Contact

      ---------------   ------------------------------

      Denmark           Christian Moensted

                        Almindingen 66

                        2860 Soeborg

                        (email: moensted@diku.dk)





 5.0  World-Wide Web (WWW) sites

 -------------------------------

 For those who can view html documents (including users of Mosaic, Cello,

 and WinWeb), there are a number of froody WWW sites:



      URL:       http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~vdmeulen/index.html

      Operator:  Roel van der Meulen



      URL:       http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/pgg/guide.html

      Operator:  Nick Williams



      URL:       http://www.realtime.net/~lthumper/

      Operator:  Jeff Kramer



      URL:       http://www.willamette.edu/pgg/

      Operator:  James Tilton



 These all have links to the Article Archives, the PGG Mothership, format

 and article information, and many have on-line archive search and article

 retrieval capabilities.





 6.0  Miscellaneous questions

 ----------------------------

 Q:  What's with 42, who is Douglas Adams, and why should I carry a towel?

 A:  Please see the alt.fan.douglas-adams Usenet group; they'll be happy to

     supply you with amplitudes of answers.



 Q:  How can I get a PGG Press Card?

 A:  As soon as they're finished, you'll be able to get an Official PGG

     Press Card from Jason Kohles (jason.kohles@m.cc.utah.edu).



 Q:  What good are the PGG Press Cards?

 A:  They may actually get you in some places, and besides they look cool.

     There's an article on what to do with your Press Card; check it out!



 Q:  What's up with the PGG t-shirts?

 A:  Among others, Stephane Lussier (stef@phoque.info.uqam.ca) has come

     up with some great graphics and motif ideas for the Official PGG

     t-shirt.  They're available for review on the Mothership.  As soon as

     we decide on how the shirts will look, and as soon as someone makes

     the shirts, then you'll be able to order them!  For more information,

     just follow the t-shirt threads on alt.galactic-guide.



 Q:  Do you need more editors?

 A:  Not really.  How can you become an editor?  Well, lots of money would

     definitely help (just kidding).  Anyway, until the project completely

     consumes both Paul and Steve to the point of exhaustion, we're probably

     all set.



 Q:  Is there a Macintosh Guide Reader?

 A:  YES!  Please see Section 4.2, above.



 Q:  Is there a Microsoft Windows-based Guide Reader?

 A:  Sorta.  It's being developed.  Under construction.  Something like that.



 Q:  Is this the end of the PGG FAQ?

 A:  Yes.



 Q:  Really?

 A:  I mean it this time.



 Q:  Are you sure about that?

 A:  Absolutely.



 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



                      PRE-EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND CHECKS



 From: Phil Agre (pagre@weber.ucsd.edu)

 and Christine Harbs (charbs@teetot.acusd.edu)



 Although the enclosed fact sheet from The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse only

 applies to California, it might provide a model for other jurisdictions

 worldwide.



 The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has a new gopher of useful legal and

 practical stuff about privacy.  Telnet to teetot.acusd.edu

 (or 192.55.87.19) and log in as "privacy".



 You can now reach the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse's useful gopher directly

 at gopher.acusd.edu.  You'll find PRC under menu item 4, USD Campus-Wide

 Information System.





 **************************************

 The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

 The Center for Public Interest Law

 5998 Alcala Park

 San Diego, CA  92110

 (619) 260-4806

 (619) 260-4753 (fax)

 e-mail prc@teetot.acusd.edu

 gopher gopher.acusd.edu

 Hotline: +1 800-773-7748 (Calif. only) +1 619-298-3396

 ***************************************



 Fact sheet No. 16 Copyright 1994, Center for Public Interest Law

 August 1994



        Employment Background Checks: A Jobseeker's Guide



 **Why would an employer want to do a background check?



 Whether you are hired or promoted for a job may depend on the information

 gathered by the employer in a background check.  Employers use them to

 verify the accuracy of information provided by jobseekers. Background

 reports may also uncover information left out of the application or

 interview.



 Today, more employers are being sued for "negligent hiring" for not checking

 carefully enough into the background of a potential employee. If an

 employee's action hurts someone, the employer may be liable. That is one

 reason more background checks are being conducted.



 The "information age" also accounts for the increase in background checks--

 the availability of computer databases containing millions of records of

 personal data. As the cost of searching these sources drops, employers are

 finding it more feasible to conduct background checks.



 **I don't have anything to hide. Why should I worry?



 While some people are not concerned about background investigations, others

 are uncomfortable with the idea of an investigator poking around in their

 personal history. In-depth background checks could unearth information

 that is irrelevant, taken out of context or just plain wrong.



 A further concern is that the report might include information that is

 illegal to use for hiring purposes or which comes from questionable

 sources. Since in most cases employers are not required to tell applicants

 that a background check is being done, jobseekers may not have the

 opportunity to respond to negative or misleading data.



 **What types of information might be included in a background check?



 Background reports can range from a verification of an applicant's Social

 Security number to a detailed account of the potential employee's history

 and acquaintances. Here are some of the pieces of information that might be

 included in a background check:



 - Driving records   - Vehicle registration   - Credit records

 - Criminal records  - Social Security no.    - Education records

 - Court records     - Workers' compensation  - Bankruptcy

 - Character references   - Neighbor interviews    - Medical records

 - Property ownership     - Employment verification

 - Military service records   - State licensing records



 **Which companies conduct background checks?



 There are many companies that specialize in conducting pre-employment

 background checks. They typically use public records databases to compile

 reports. The following is a partial list of companies that perform a

 variety of services for employment background checking: Avert, Interfact,

 Equifax Employment Services, CDB Infotek, Employers Mutual Assoc.,

 Employers Information Service, Trans Union, Information Resource

 Service Co.,  Pinkerton Security & Investigation Services.



 With the information age upon us, it is easier for employers to gather

 background information themselves. Much of it is computerized, allowing

 employers to "log on" to public records and commercial databases directly

 through commercial online services.



 Employers may also create a "clearinghouse" of information about potential

 employees. A group of employers establish a data exchange program to screen

 applicants. The database is comprised of information submitted by the member

 companies about their employees. When a jobseeker submits an application

 to a member company, that employer will check with the clearinghouse for

 information on the applicant.



 **What types of information *can't* the employer consider?



 Federal and state laws limit the types of information employers can use in

 hiring decisions.



 o Arrest information. Although arrest record information is public record,

 in California employers cannot seek out the arrest record of a potential

 employee. However, if the arrest resulted in a conviction, or if the

 applicant is out of jail but pending trial, that information can be used.

 (California Labor Code @ 432.7)



 o Criminal history. In California, criminal histories or "rap sheets"

 compiled by law enforcement agencies are not public record. Only certain

 employers such as public utilities, law enforcement, security guard firms,

 and child care facilities have access to this information. With the advent

 of computerized court records and arrest information, however, there are

 private companies that compile virtual "rap sheets." (California Penal Code

 @@ 11105, 13300)



 o Workers' compensation. When an employee's claim goes through the state

 system or the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, the case becomes public

 record. Only if an injury might interfere with one's ability to perform

 required duties may an employer use this information. Under the federal

 Americans with Disabilities Act, employers cannot use medical information

 or the fact an applicant filed a workers' compensation claim to

 discriminate against applicants. (42 USC @12101)



 o Bankruptcies. Bankruptcies are public record. However, employers cannot

 discriminate against applicants because they have filed for bankruptcy.

 (11 USC @525)



 **Aren't some of my personal records confidential?



 The following types of information may be useful for an employer to make a

 hiring decision. However, the employer is required to get your permission

 before obtaining the records. (For more information, see PRC Fact Sheet

 No. 11, "From Cradle to Grave: Government Records and Your Privacy.")



 o Education records. Under both federal and California law, transcripts,

 recommendations, discipline records and financial information are

 confidential. A school should not release student records without the

 authorization of the student or parent. However, a school may release

 *directory information*, which can include name, address, dates of

 attendance, degrees earned, and activities, unless the student has given

 written notice otherwise. (California Education Code @@ 67100, 76200;

 20 USC @1232g)



 o Military service records. Under the federal Privacy Act, service records

 are confidential and can only be released under limited circumstances.

 Inquiries must be made under the Freedom of Information Act. Even without

 the applicant's consent, the military may release name, rank, salary, duty

 assignments, awards and duty status. (5 USC @@ 552, 552a)



 o Medical records. In California, medical records are confidential.  There

 are only a few instances when a medical record can be released without your

 knowledge or authorization. If employers require physical examinations

 after they make a job offer, they have access to the results. The Americans

 with Disabilities Act allows a potential employer to inquire only about

 your ability to perform specific job functions. (California Civil Code @

 56.10;42 USC @12101)



 There are other types of questions such as age and marital status and

 certain psychological tests that employers cannot use when interviewing.

 These issues are beyond the scope of this fact sheet. If you have further

 questions, look under "For more information" at the end of this fact sheet

 or call the PRC Hotline.



 **What can my former employer say about me?



 Often a potential employer will contact an applicant's past employers. A

 former boss can say anything [truthful] about your performance. However,

 most employers have a policy to only confirm dates of employment, final

 salary, and other limited information. California law prohibits employers

 from intentionally interfering with former employees' attempts to find jobs

 by giving out false or misleading references. (California Labor Code @ 1050)



 Documents in your personnel file are not confidential and can be revealed

 by an employer. Only medical information in a personnel file is

 confidential.  If you are a state or federal employee, however, your

 personnel file is protected under the California Information Practices Act

 or the federal Privacy Act of 1974 and can only be disclosed under limited

 circumstances.  Under California law, employees have a right to review

 their own personnel files, and make copies of documents they have signed.

 (California Civil Code @ 56.20; California Labor Code @@432, 1198.5;

 California Government Code @ 1798; 5 USC @552a)



 **Does the applicant have a right to be told when a background check is

 requested?



 The *only* times an applicant must be told if a background check is

 conducted is if the employer requests an "investigative consumer report"

 or a credit report. The investigative consumer report may contain

 information about your character, general reputation, personal

 characteristics and lifestyle. The information in the report is typically

 compiled from interviews with neighbors, friends, associates and others who

 might have information about you.



 Under both California and federal law, the applicant must be notified if

 an employer requests an investigative consumer report. (California Civil

 Code @ 1786; 12 USC @1681d. Also see Fact Sheet No. 6, "How Private is My

 Credit Report?")



 An employer can also order a copy of your credit report, which is less

 detailed than an investigative report. However, a credit report can still

 tell an employer a lot about you. It may contain public records information

 such as court cases, judgments, bankruptcies and liens; also, outstanding

 credit accounts and loans, and the payment history for each account. Credit

 report entries remain in the report for up to ten years.



 In California, if an employer checks your credit file, you must be notified

 and given an opportunity to see the file. Also, when a report is requested

 for employment purposes, the credit bureau must block all references to age,

 marital status, race, religion and medical information. Although federal

 and state laws allow credit bureaus to include criminal record information,

 it is an industry policy not to do so. (California Civil Code @@ 1785.18,

 1785.20.5)



 **What can the job applicant do to prepare?



 Although you cannot *prevent* an employer from doing a background check,

 you can take steps to be ready for questions the employer might ask once

 the investigation is conducted.



 o Order a copy of your credit report. If there is something you do not

 recognize or that you disagree with, dispute the information with the

 creditor or credit bureau before you have to explain it to the interviewer.

 (See PRC Fact Sheet No. 6, "How Private is My Credit Report?")



 o Check public records files. If you have an arrest record or have been

 involved in court cases, go to the county where this took place and inspect

 the files. Make sure the information is correct and up to date. Request a

 copy of your driving record from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV),

 especially if you are applying for a job that may involve driving.



 o Ask to see a copy of your personnel file from your old job. Even if you

 do not work there anymore, you have a right to see your file until at least

 a year from the last date of employment. You are allowed to make copies of

 documents in your file that have your signature on them. (California Labor

 Code @ 432.) You may also want to ask if your former employer has a policy

 about the release of personnel records. Many companies limit the amount of

 information they disclose.



 o Read the fine print carefully. When you sign a job application, you may

 also be signing a statement that waives your right to a copy of your credit

 report. You might also be authorizing the disclosure of other personal

 data, such as educational records, medical records and financial data.

 Unfortunately, jobseekers are in an awkward position, since refusing to

 authorize a background check may jeopardize the chances of getting the job.



 o Tell neighbors and work colleagues, past and present, that they might

 be asked to provide information about you. This helps avoid suspicion and

 alerts you to possible problems.



 o If you feel comfortable, ask the interviewer about the company's employee

 privacy policies. Find out if the potential employer plans to do a

 background check, and ask to see a copy.



 **For more information



 o Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (see the Government Pages in

 your phone book).



 o California Labor Commission (see the Government Pages in your phone

 book).



 o Pacific Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center for questions

 about the Americans with Disabilities Act, (800) 949-4232.



 o Documented Reference Check, (800) 742-3316 (verifies references of former

 employers; fee charged).



 If you have additional questions about privacy, contact the PRC Hotline

 at (800) 773-7748.



 Copyright  1994 Center for Public Interest Law August 1994

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 The Clearinghouse is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating

 Californians about personal privacy issues. It is funded by a grant from the

 Telecommunications Education Trust and operates under the auspices of the

 University of San Diego School of Law's Center for Public Interest Law.

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 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND MAIL TO YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS ASKING THEM

 IF THEY OFFER THEIR SYSTEM LOGS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES - ESPECIALLY IF

 YOU LIVE IN TEXAS.  ACTIONS SUCH AS THIS MAY BE A VIOLATION OF YOUR

 PRIVACY.  IF YOU DISCOVER THIS TO BE THE CASE, MAIL US!



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