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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 15:08:35 -0800

From: Phil Agre

Subject: TNO 2(2).

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THE NETWORK OBSERVER

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2

FEBRUARY 1995


I don't know if it was Newt Gingrich's idea originally, but he supports it and it's real -- the Thomas legislative information service on WWW. Check it out. The URL is http://thomas.loc.gov/ Right now it's not all that impressive, but it's a start anyway. Next step -- figure out what features and documents it's missing, make sure everyone on the net knows to want them, and make sure everyone in Washington knows that everyone on the net wants them. By the way, the House gopher is at gopher://gopher.house.gov/

Lindsay Marshall has put the complete Risks Digest on the web. He says that individual issues look like http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/16.01.html where 16.01 is the volume and issue number, and the most recent issue is at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/latest

Ol' Newt is everywhere. Mother Jones printed some of the first useful articles on the guy, and now they've put them on-line on their web server http://www.mojones.com/ The first of these articles, from 1984 -- and that's 1984, not 1994 -- tells us, among many other things, "Gingrich told several intimates in 1974 that his goal was to be Speaker of the House". It can be found at http://www.mojones.com/N84/osborne.html

What? You haven't had enough of Newt yet? The Newt Gingrich WWW Fan Club is at http://www.clark.net/pub/jeffd/mr_newt.html This page includes a pointer to the under-construction Progress and Freedom Foundation home page, whose erstwhile nonexistence I remarked upon in TNO 1(12).

You can even read the Heritage Foundation's theoretical journal, Policy Review, on gopher. This is the best place to find out where the highly organized forces of the conservative movement are headed next. Required reading for all liberals. The URL is gopher://gopher.enews.com:2100/11/magazines/alphabetic/mr/policy


TNO 2(3)

Reply-To: rre-maintainers@weber.ucsd.edu X-URL: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/572 Roger Clarke has just created some web pages on dataveillance and privacy issues. His own home page is http://commerce.anu.edu.au/comm/staff/RogerC/RogersHome and the dataveillance page is http://commerce.anu.edu.au/comm/staff/RogerC/Dataveillance/RogersDV.html

The Clinton administration's controversial Green Paper on the law of copyright in cyberspace is available on the web at URL: http://www.uspto.gov/text/pto/nii/ipwg.html Past postings of Jim Warren's GovAccess mailing list are at ftp.cpsr.org: /cpsr/states/california/govaccess and by WWW at http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/states/california/govaccess To subscribe to the list, send Jim a note at jwarren@well.com

Those wild hackers at the MIT radio station WMBR have assembled an extensive web page of radio stations with web pages. The URL is http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/list.html (WAS: http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/wmbr/otherstations.html)

Also at MIT, Ellen Spertus has a list of non-profit organizations on the web at http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/non.html

And a decent collection of net resources for activists on human rights is at http://www.idt.unit.no/~isfit/human.rights.html

You must check out the web archive of a mailing list about moving assets offshore. It's a whole subculture and quite continuous with the general tone of libertarianism on much of the net and in many manifestos of the hacker movement. The URL for the archive is: http://www.euro.net/innovation/Offshore.html I'm told that the way to subscribe to the mailing list is by sending a message whose body is "sub" to offshore@dnai.com.

I was charmed to discover the web page for the Indonesian menu at Bachri's Indonesian and Middle-Eastern Restaurant in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania. I wonder if they've gotten any business out of it -- http://www.ibp.com/pitt/bachris/indonesian.html


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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:55:49 -0800 From: Phil Agre Message-Id: <199502282155.NAA23794@weber.ucsd.edu> To: rre@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: Arts Adovocates Home Page and Gopher Announced Resent-Message-ID: <"FC6nx3.0.6q5.elvKl"@weber> Resent-From: rre@weber.ucsd.edu Reply-To: rre-maintainers@weber.ucsd.edu X-URL: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/582 X-Loop: rre@weber.ucsd.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu From: Beth Kanter To: "Millennium Communications Group Inc." Cc: roundtable@cni.org Subject: Arts Adovocates Home Page and Gopher Announced Advocacy Homepage announced by American Arts Alliance In response to the imminent threat to the survival of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the American Arts Alliance is pleased to announce the creation of an "advocacy homepage" and gopher site accessible to the millions Internet users. The homepage provides advocacy information and tools for arts supporters to communicate the need for continued federal support of the arts to their senators and representatives. This information, which includes our 900 number, a sample letter, NEA facts and general information, greatly advances the the arts community's continuing efforts to generate support for the NEA through local grassroots contacts with elected officials. In addition to educating the public and expanding the base of potentially interested parties, computer users can easily transform the data into a uniquely personal letter to send to their leaders in Washington. The American Arts Alliance is available on the Arts Wire WWW site. The URL: http://www.tmn.com/0h/Artswire/www/aaa/aaahome.html This information is also available on the Arts Wire gopher: Address: gopher.tmn.com Once there choose Menu Item #5, Artswire. At the next menu, select American Arts Alliance For those gopher developers who want to link, here is pertinent path information: Type=1 Name=American Arts Alliance Path=1/Artswire/www/aaa Host=gopher.tmn.com Port=70 The American Arts Alliance Advocates for the Arts 1319 F Street, NW Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20004 Phone: 202-737-1727 Fax: 202-628-1258 Email: aaa@tmn.com Member organizations: American Symphony Orchestra League, Association of Art Museum Directors, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Dance/USA, Opera America, Theatre Communications Group, representing 2,600 Non-profit Arts Institutions. If you have a link for the arts and cultural advocates page, please contact Beth Kanter, Network Coordinator, Arts Wire at kanter@tmn.com.

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