1996-03-17 Arun Mehta > Netscape > Communications within six months will build voice software for > making low-cost long distance calls via the Internet into its > Navigator program Good news! Our telecom monopoly, which offers the only full Internet connection available to the general public, specifically prohibits its use for telephony, thus trying to … Read more…
1996-03-17 Sender: Greg Hardison <•••@••.•••> FYI —– FIRING LINE SPECIAL DEBATE Friday, March 22, 1996 (9-11:00 pm ET) “Resolved: Cyberspace Doesn’t Need Special Protection From Smut” (w.t.) –This program, hosted by William F. Buckley Jr. and moderated by Michael Kinsley, plunges into the divisive issues of the telecommunications bill currently before Congress — a bill … Read more…
1996-03-17 Sender: Ed Frankenberry <•••@••.•••> Arun asks: > Does anyone know whether there is/would be a possibility > of using Internet telephony without the ISP at this end finding out that > this is what users are doing via their Internet connections? There is no practical way for the telecom monopoly to prevent use of … Read more…
1996-03-17 Sender: David Cloutman <•••@••.•••> On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Cyber Rights wrote: > From: jim bell <•••@••.•••> > > In case any of you people still think that Leahy bill ostensibly freeing up > encryption is “progress,” the following scenario is provided for your > consideration: > > “Bob” runs an encrypted remailer. His … Read more…
1996-03-17 Sender: John Whiting <•••@••.•••> My rhetorical lament on the passing of the Internet seems to have sparked off a serious discussion of alternatives. All of them rely on a dedicated corps of technicians with a common ethical/ philosophical orientation. (In today’s terminology, such a paradigm is unequivocally “elitist”, a useless and even harmful neologism.) … Read more…
1996-03-17 A number of interesting announcements were forwarded to me, but the length of today’s postings were getting so long that I decided not to post them. Let me know if you want to see any of the following. * A call for papers for the fifth Infowar conference in Washington, D.C. on September 5-6. … Read more…
1996-03-17 Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) > Sender: John Whiting <•••@••.•••> > Cyberspace, however, is only a means of communication through which > such forces can operate. In itself, it has no direct power for good > or evil, unless one is convinced that, like Scientology, it exerts > some sort of hypnotic influence. It cannot … Read more…
1996-03-16 Richard Moore Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 From: •••@••.••• (Susan Klopfer) To: Multiple recipients of list <•••@••.•••> Subject: Life on the Internet (PBS) Subject: “Life on the Internet” 13 part PBS series coming next month See http://www.pbs.org/april96/internetaprilpr.html for details. Susan Klopfer **** VANATECH PRESS ****= You’re invited to take a peek at SUSAN’S LITTLE … Read more…
1996-03-16 Sender: tony <•••@••.•••> Why should there be a difference between the rights a person has as a US resident and the rights one has as a member of cyberspace? We are limited in how explicit we can be outside of the internet; why should it be different inside? I think people are getting censorship … Read more…
1996-03-16 Sender: “David Heck” <David.Heck> I agree with your assesment….but after reading Vernor Vinge’s _A Fire Upon The Deep_, establishing an orbital, independent colony with networking/satellite capabilities, that could function similarly to the scenario described in Vinge’s fictoin has been a favorite reverie of late…escapist perhaps, but also passive-agressive. If a coalition of ‘independent’ individuals … Read more…