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: 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 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: 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: 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 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 Craig A. Johnson @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ****Netscape To Build Telephony Into Navigator Source: Newsbytes COOLUM, AUSTRALIA, 1996 MAR 13 (NB) via Individual Inc. — Netscape Communications within six months will build voice software for making low-cost long distance calls via the Internet into its Navigator program, the company’s co-founder and vice president of technology, Marc Andreesen, … Read more…

1996-03-16 Sender: “David Heck” <David.Heck> I agree! Organize and get involved. I just signed up with the NFIB and they seem to be aware of the problems posed by this legislation, and will be sending out surveys to members, and forwarding our concerns as small business owners to the appropriate congress critters (VON, CDA, Telco … Read more…

1996-03-16 Sender: John Whiting <•••@••.•••> I suspect that Michael Strangelove is confusing virtual with corporeal reality, as if in an effort to give a spurious formal structure to John Howard Barlow’s powerful but rhetorical metaphor. One can speak meaningfully of a conflict of interest or of jurisdiction between nation-states and multinational corporations because both are … 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…