1996-03-24 Craig A. Johnson @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:06:59 -0800 To: •••@••.••• From: •••@••.••• (–Todd Lappin–>) Subject: MEEKS: “The Hyde Factor” Hell hath no fury like Brock Meeks with an email account. In this episode, Brock introduces us to the charming and delightful Rep. Henry Hyde, Republican Congressman from Illinois. The honorable Mr. … Read more…

1996-03-23 The following notes are the rough basis for a potential comment to the FCC on the ACTA Internet Phone Petition. The issue: several companies and free software offerings allow users to talk to each other in real-time over the Internet. This is often called a kind of long-distance telephone. A coalition of long-distance providers … Read more…

1996-03-23 Sender: John Whiting <•••@••.•••> The Internet Liberation Army – what a wonderful vision! I can see already the massive congressional appropriations to fund infiltration, internal dissent, and ultimately the armed destruction of real or imagined headquarter sites. Come back Patti Hearst, we need you. Now, a Virtual Internet Liberation Army, or dozens of them, … Read more…

1996-03-23 Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) Thank you to Bart Preecs and Allen Marshall for escalating our efforts to faxing and mailing. We can do all these if we have enough volunteers and we coordinate ourselves. To start, we need one to three volunteers who will receive, by email, from the rest of us: 1. email … Read more…

1996-03-23 Sender: “David E. Anderson” <•••@••.•••> Discussion of this issue should address the following issues as well as those already raised: – the cost per packet of billing and metering on a packet basis versus the cost of transmitting a packet – how to address the pricing that is implied when you combine the ratio … Read more…

1996-03-23 Sender: •••@••.••• Andy, Thought folks might be interested in this new list. I’ve found the info useful and have even spotted stuff here to send to you. Earlier this week in the fight-censorship mailing list, Jim Warren wrote the following about it: (FWIW) I recommend this relatively new list — informative, provocative, worthwhile. –jim … Read more…

1996-03-22 (Reprinted with author’s permission.–Andy) From: •••@••.••• To: Multiple recipients of list <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: Resale Provisions and PSC/PUC actions X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0b — ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Requests (UNSUBSCRIBE/HELP) to: •••@••.••• (quotes from other members of the list deleted.–Andy) Yes, I have an opinion. I think its just another example of how this year’s … Read more…

1996-03-22 (Note from moderator: now we’re getting closer to the notion of the Internet as a state!–Andy) Sender: Joe Shea <•••@••.•••> I think we need to defend the Net from all the people who want to regulate it by creating the Internet Liberation Army (ILA), made up of a corps of top-flight engineers working together … Read more…

1996-03-22 Sender: Bill W Smith Jr <•••@••.•••> At 06:22 PM 3/21/96 -0800, you wrote: >In their hope to avoid government censorship, companies that depend on >the Internet for business have been crafting a rating system for the >Web. So far, it is not clear how much the system depends on each >site’s willingness to rate … Read more…

1996-03-22 Sender: Chuck Simpson <•••@••.•••> Andy, Given the rate of growth on the Internet it seems inevitable that traffic will outstrip bandwidth at some point. Usage based charges seem like the fairest method of paying for access. Since TCP/IP is used for most data transmission and packets transmitted via virtual circuits are what should be … Read more…