1996-03-29 Sender: Martin Janzen <•••@••.•••> I wrote: >You most certainly do NOT have consensus, Marilyn. > >At least one list member thoroughly disapproves of Richard’s socialistic >visions, and does not want to be associated with any kind of public >statement supporting anything that even remotely smacks of limiting the >freedom of adult human beings to … Read more…
1996-03-29 (Moderator’s note: I had trouble accessing the URLs listed below, but http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~martinas/Survey/exper.html worked for me.–Andy) Please help distribute this message as much as possible…. and please fill out the survey yourself! Thank you SECURITY, PRIVACY, COSTS AND MARKETING ON THE INTERNET: DO WE NEED REGULATION AND PROTECTION? Once again, the Centre for Technology Studies … Read more…
1996-03-28 Craig A. Johnson @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ On 27 Mar 96 at 17:56, Marilyn Davis wrote: > Andy wrote: > > > We have been indulging in some highly idealistic discussions of > > Internet sovereignty and democratic pricing schemes on this list, but > > I’d like to put out a request that we all spend … Read more…
1996-03-28 Richard Moore 3/28/96, Andy wrote: >we have a ground-breaking purpose: to find a consensus statement. >Does something like the following draft work better for Martin and >Glen and perhaps still carry Richard and others? ________________________________________________________________ We, the 500 members of the cyber-rights email list, agree by consensus that: 1. Email is the communication/cooperation superhighway, … Read more…
1996-03-28 Richard Moore Someone asked: >Circuits? Could someone please enlighten me on this? Each Internet message (packet?), if I understand it right, is independently routed through the network. The advantage is that network management is trivial, a node can go down, and traffic automatically routes around it immediately, without any central authority notifying everyone to … Read more…
1996-03-28 CDT announces that a new bill was introduced into U.S. Congress to repeal the old defense-related restrictions on encryption exports. I’ll forward the newsletter to anyone who’s interested. I was sent the final schedule for the Infowar conference, which takes place in Brussels on May 23-24, 1996 and concentrates on: Personal Privacy Industrial and … Read more…
1996-03-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Jerome Thorel) netizen’s –> Lambda Bulletin 2.05 <– contents + Belgium discovers strong encryption rules; France will adopt electronic locksmiths + France experiences its first online censorship trail + French Minitel (foolish) war on the Internet * * * * * ==+== Belgium discovers strong encryption rules; France will adopt electronic locksmiths … Read more…
1996-03-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) Craig A. Johnson <•••@••.•••> wrote: > To repeat, the co-leadership of Cyber Rights has made no decision to > undertake this “project.” It seems to me it is useful to get I’m surprised to hear you claim this list has some official “leadership”. I was only aware of a generous … Read more…
1996-03-27 From: Brennon Martin <•••@••.•••> On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Cyber Rights wrote: > This will be held on June 16-19, 1996 in Washington, DC (I think–the > announcement is not clear). It covers a wide range of topics on the > effects of networks on the economy, democracy, publishing, and so on. > Email … Read more…
1996-03-27 Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) Andy, Craig and Steve’s excellent paper cleared up my thinking a lot. I have a few comments and questions, mostly just so that we can understand each other better. > Attempts to single it out and regulate it could prove harmful to > technological progress in digital networking. It would … Read more…