Computer underground Digest Sun Dec 21, 1997 Volume 9 : Issue 92 ISSN 1004-042X Editor: Jim Thomas (cudigest@sun.soci.niu.edu) News Editor: Gordon Meyer (gmeyer@sun.soci.niu.edu) Archivist: Brendan Kehoe Shadow Master: Stanton McCandlish Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala Ian Dickinson Field Agent Extraordinaire: David Smith Cu Digest Homepage: http://www.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest CONTENTS, #9.92 (Sun, Dec 21, 1997) File 1--UK - Have Your Say to the Government! (fwd) File 2--Urgent Action: WA state HOUSE BILL 2209 File 3--Book Review: "Internet Dreams" by Stefik File 4--No Electronic Theft Act; who's to judge? File 5--Cyber Patrol to Block Hate Speech File 6--SPECIAL REPORT: Censorware in the Stacks File 7--Islands in the Clickstream - December 21, 1997 File 8--The Censorware Project File 9--Cu Digest Header Info (unchanged since 7 May, 1997) CuD ADMINISTRATIVE, EDITORIAL, AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION APPEARS IN THE CONCLUDING FILE AT THE END OF EACH ISSUE. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 11:09:09 -0600 (CST) From: Avi Bass Subject: File 1--UK - Have Your Say to the Government! (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date--Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:52:07 +0000 From--Steven Clift Subject--UK - Have Your Say to the Government! (fwd) Enclosed are two messages about the UK Freedom of Information Consultation that has been set up by UK Citizens Online Democracy with the support of the UK Cabinet Office. To date it represents the best organized interactive online event with an interface into the governmental decision-making process. It is one to follow closely and hopefully apply lessons from in similar online efforts in your own countries and communities. In the future if you are interested in updates about similar efforts from round the world, please sign-up for the monthly Democracy Notes newsletter. Send a message to: listserv@tc.umn.edu In the body of your message, write: subscribe do-notes "Your Name (Place)" Sincerely, Steven Clift Democracies Online - http://www.e-democracy.org/do ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date-- Fri, 12 Dec 1997 11:40:20 +0200 To-- working-group@democracy.org.uk From-- irving@democracy.org.uk (Irving Rappaport) Subject-- Have Your Say to the Government! The government would be grateful if you could distribute this message widely:- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Have Your Say to the Government! See - http://foi.democracy.org.uk/ =============================== UK Citizens' Online Democracy (UKCOD) is delighted to announce that for the first time in Britain the general public can participate in the preparation of a law by interacting directly with a Government Minister via the internet. An independent, non-partisan web site supported by the Cabinet Office has been set up by UK Citizens' Online Democracy (UKCOD) to enable the public to provide the Government with feedback on its proposals for Britain's first Freedom of Information Act and to pose questions directly to Dr David Clark, the Minister responsible for the Freedom of Information proposals. You can have your say to the Government and the Minister NOW at:- http://foi.democracy.org.uk/ Dr Clark said, "Before we produce the draft Freedom of Information Bill, I am keen to hear people's views on our proposals. The UKCOD website will be a quick and convenient route for people to provide this feedback. I look forward to taking part in the online discussion planned for the New Year." So don't be shy, help make history! Have Your Say to the Government at:- http://foi.democracy.org.uk/ And a big thank you to our sponsors - AOL, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Sun Microsystems and GX Networks. Irving Rappaport UK Citizens' Online Democracy Longer Version - (Press Release): ================================ GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS INDEPENDENT "HAVE YOUR SAY" PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON FREEDOM OF INFORMATION WHITE PAPER UK Citizens' Online Democracy launches ground-breaking debates on the Internet Web site available at http://foi.democracy.org.uk/ from 11th December An independent, non-partisan web site supported by the Cabinet Office has been set up by UK Citizens' Online Democracy (UKCOD) to enable the public to provide the Government with feedback on the proposals within the Freedom of Information White Paper, published on 11th December. The consultation period will last until 28 February 1998. The web site, "Have Your Say" is located at http://foi.democracy.org.uk and features background information, interactive discussion, press comment, and the chance to pose questions directly to Dr David Clark, the cabinet Minister for Public Service. The public's comments and submissions will be taken into consideration before the Freedom of Information Bill is drafted next year. This is the first time in this country that the general public will be able to participate in the preparation of a law by interacting directly with the Government Minister via the internet prior to a Bill's passage through Parliament. Dr Clark said, "Before we produce the draft Freedom of Information Bill, I am keen to hear people's views on our proposals. The UKCOD website will be a quick and convenient route for people to provide this feedback. I look forward to taking part in the online discussion planned for the New Year." Dr Stephen Coleman, Chief Political Consultant to UKCOD said, "This is an important test which could set a precedent for the relationship between government and the public. If this consultation is successful and provides greater public access, perhaps similar consultations could be set up in the future as part of the legislative process." Alex Balfour, UKCOD's Content Director said, "The 'Have Your Say' website will be a historic opportunity for the public to play a meaningful part in the framing of new legislation. Much has been said about the potential of electronic democracy, but very little has happened. 'Have Your Say' is electronic democracy in action." The Cabinet Office has agreed to publicise UKCOD's initiative. Dr Clark will join members of the public in a moderated online question and answer session which will take place over a period of two weeks early in the New Year. He will also participate in a live online discussion. Villagers of Trimdon in the Prime Minister's constituency played an important role in the development of the web site, carrying out initial tests. This ground-breaking consultation is part of UKCOD's continuing programme of experiments in interactive democracy. It follows the successful First Time Voters Forum and Politicians Forum earlier this year in which Tony Blair, John Major, Paddy Ashdown and representatives of fourteen national political parties all participated. UK Citizens' Online Democracy (UKCOD) is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes public education and participation in the democratic process and co-ordinates research in the field of 'electronic democracy'. AOL Bertelsmann donated its web-design services to UKCOD in support of the initiative. UKCOD has been funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and its commercial sponsors include AOL, Sun Microsystems, GX Networks, and the Computing Services and Software Assoc. For further information and media comment on UKCOD's online public consultation on the Freedom of Information White Paper, please contact Paul Andrew at HMC on 0410 159375 or Stephen Coleman at UKCOD on 0171 483 4233 or Alex Balfour at UKCOD on 0410 348616. Or email:- alexb@democracy.org.uk ------------------------------------------------------- Steven L. Clift, Director, Democracies Online 3454 Fremont Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408 USA Tel: 612-824-3747 E: clift@freenet.msp.mn.us http://www.e-democracy.org/do/ - Democracies Online http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/clift/ - Home Page ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 21:05:37 -0800 (PST) From: "T.L. Kelly" Subject: File 2--Urgent Action: WA state HOUSE BILL 2209 The WSDMA, a "labor" organization, has quietly asked the Washington Dept. of Labor and Industry to strip computer professionals making over $27.63 an hour of their overtime. Furthermore, the proposed law is written in such a way as to exempt "Any employee who is a computer system analyst, computer programmer, software engineer, software developer or other similarly skilled worker" even from the minimum wage provisions of Washington state law. If approved, the law will be adopted Dec. 31, 1997, and become effective Feb. 1, 1998. The WSDMA's largest member is Microsoft, the largest employer of computer contractors in the region with an estimated 3-5,000 such employees. The company recently lost a labor case brought by a group of contract workers. It is the company's acknowledged policy to employ contract workers to avoid the cost of benefits, vacation, etc. Recent applicants have confirmed to me that Microsoft explicitly *requires* all contract workers to work "a minimum of 50-55 hours a week". The Boeing Company is also a member of the WSDMA. The WSDMA's legal move was kept secret. The "request" was not reported in the local press until the day AFTER the public comment period had ended. The author of that story has acknowledged he learned of the proposal in October, but did not cover it because he "didn't appreciate the significance". One wonders how he manages to cross the street successfully. The "public" hearing was scheduled for the Tuesday before Thanksgiving from 10 am to noon -- in Tumwater, WA, several miles south of Olympia. The vast majority of the state's contract workers live in Seattle and neighboring communities far to the north. The WSDMA's own street-level membership was not informed of the move, let alone invited to comment. It should be noted that computer professionals are already barred from labor organizing by a Cold War-era federal law. It seems the time has come to work to get that law overturned on Constitutional grounds. But first... THE PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE OVERTIME LAW HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL DEC. 19 -- NEXT FRIDAY. Management and owners have had nearly two months to comment, we have less than a week. Please make it count. Comments can be sent to Linda Merz of the Washington State Dept. of Labor and Industry at (360) 902-5403 or merl235@lni.wa.gov Please be clear, relatively brief, and most importantly courteous (even if firm). Comments of up to 10 pages may be faxed to (360) 902-5300 or snail mailed to: Greg Mowat, Program Manager Employment Standards Department of Labor and Industries P.O. Box 4-4510 Olympia, WA 98504-4510 Below is an excerpt from the proposed law, HOUSE BILL 2209. As you can see, it applies to just about anyone working in the computer and web industries. (source: http://www.wa.gov/lni/pa/w128-535.htm ) (1) Any employee who is a computer system analyst, computer programmer, software engineer, software developer or other similarly skilled worker will be considered a "professional employee" and will be exempt from the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Washington Minimum Wage Act if: (i) Applying systems analysis techniques and procedures to determine hardware, software, or system functional specifications for any user of such services; or (ii) Following user or system design specifications to design, develop, document, analyze, create, test or modify any computer system, application or program, including prototypes; or (iii) Designing, documenting, testing, creating or modifying computer systems, applications or programs for machine operation systems; or (iv) Any combination of the above primary duties whose performance requires the same skill level [...] RESOURCES ONLINE News Stories (both of 'em -- literally) Temporary software workers to lose OT http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/browse/html97/temp_120597.html Software temps gain time to fight OT changes http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/browse/html97/temp_121097.html Info from WA State Dept of L&I http://www.wa.gov/lni/pa/over.htm http://www.wa.gov/lni/pa/w128-535.htm HOUSE BILL 2209 as posted on the WA Legislature Site http://leginfo.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/house/2200-2224/2209_022697 WA Legislature Site http://leginfo.leg.wa.gov/ WSDMA http://www.wsdma.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 13:26:06 -0800 From: Rob Slade Subject: File 3--Book Review: "Internet Dreams" by Stefik Source - TELECOM Digest Tue, 9 Dec 97 Volume 17 : Issue 345 ((MODERATORS' NOTE: For those not familiar with Pat Townson's TELECOM DIGEST, it's an exceptional resource. From the header of TcD: "TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and America On Line. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. Subscriptions are available to qualified organizations and individual readers. Write and tell us how you qualify: * ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu * ======" )) ================== BKINTDRM.RVW 971113 "Internet Dreams", Mark Stefik, 1996, 0-262-19373-6, U$30.00 %A Mark Stefik stefik@parc.xerox.com %C 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 %D 1996 %G 0-262-19373-6 %I MIT Press %O U$30.00 800-356-0343 fax: 617-625-6660 curtin@mit.edu %O www-mitpress.mit.edu %P 412 %T "Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors" If you don't know where you're going, that's probably where you'll end up. A great many statements, pronouncements and opinions regarding the current "extended" Internet (or, in Quarterman's term, the Matrix) and any future developments from it are based not on reality, but on unconscious assumptions that the net is a library, TV, playground, workshop, meeting place, alternate world, community, market, or some other metaphor. Stefik has collected and excerpted visions from a variety of sources to try and present a range of options, and to promote discussion of these underlying assumptions: are they valid, are they helpful, and what are they missing? The articles come from classics such as Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" (his "memex" is often cited as the seminal idea behind hypertext and the World Wide Web), through the artistry of Julian Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace" (items as compelling as this are seldom found in technical works), to Scott Cook's bad-tempered "Technological Revolutions and the Gutenberg Myth." Part one looks at the metaphor of the library. Hypertext, the move from books to digital media, intelligent agents, currency in literature, intellectual property values, non-informational aspects, and the preservation of culture are included in the topics raised. For those who have looked at the net as a cultural entity, the library is the symbol most frequently used for comparison. Still, these essays do manage to present the classic ideas without being repetitious. Part three looks at the electronic marketplace and commerce. The business approach to the net tends to be the least examined aspect: those interested in the Internet as a sales tool simply want to get on with it and close the deal. "Business on the net" books tend to be simplistic and seldom have a solid grasp on the reality of either the technology or the culture of the net. While brief, this section covers every pertinent topic that I have seen discussed in almost all books on the digital economy, and makes a reasonable introduction to a generally sloppy field. Parts two and four appear, to me, to be very strongly related. Part two looks at email, and does a decent job. Part four looks at other forms of computer mediated communication, but primarily emphasizes real-time social communication. (The particular example used is the MUD - multiple user domain - but IRC - Internet Relay Chat - would be very similar.) On the one hand, therefore, the two parts are simply alternate technologies with the same objective. In correspondence with Stefik, he has noted that he was trying to bring out the image of the sense of place involved in chat "rooms." In hindsight, his objective is accomplished, although not strongly. I may be the wrong person to note this distinction, since long experience with mailing lists has given me a sense of "place" in regard to them as well. The metaphors that might be called passive entertainment (newsgroup lurking and Web browsing) and work get rather short shrift. It is, of course, not possible to examine all the metaphors for the net and would be very difficult to collect all the common ones. Those presented are a good start, and a prompt for further discussion. (While archetypes and myths do get frequent mention, their use does not contribute greatly to the book in its current form.) Hopefully, this work may promote further explorations of other Matrix metaphors - which, in turn, may lead to an expanded second edition. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997 BKINTDRM.RVW 971113 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 23:54:59 +0000 From: wouter van den berg Subject: File 4--No Electronic Theft Act; who's to judge? Just one of the many scary aspects of the NET-Act, is that whether or not copyright infringment is a criminal offense is dictated by the "retail value". Of course, what this value is, is primarily a result of the pricing-policy of the publisher. The gravity of this new crime is thus a result of considerations made by the publisher of a work, and not of considerations by an independent court. One way to abuse this is to put a pricetag on, for example, your homepage. If it's visited by some-one you dislike, you can then press charges. Also, publishers could start selling software for prices of thousands of dollars, but give away discount-coupons in the stores themselves, reducing the actual money paid to an original, feasable price, but the offense of copying would still be very grave. This effectively undercuts the courts and 'due course of law', and to me, a non-laywer, sounds suspisiously uncontitutional. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:25:23 +0000 From: David Smith Subject: File 5--Cyber Patrol to Block Hate Speech Source - fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu Cyber Patrol to block hate speech http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,17431,00.html?dtn.head Summary -- Cyber Patrol has teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League to offer a "special version" of sites reviewed by the ADL. Here's the weirdest thing about the story --- if you access a site on their "hate list" you don't get a block, but rather you get redirected to the ADL website. Blocking access isn't enough -- you will now be told what to read and what to think about prejudice, bigotry, and race relations. I don't have anything for or against the ADL -- just that history dictates that this power will be used and abused to stifle thought and free expression. I wonder if "special versions" is the future direction that Cyber Patrol will take, and if we will, for example, see the Christian Coalition Cyber Patrol version. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:23:23 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh Subject: File 6--SPECIAL REPORT: Censorware in the Stacks Source - fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com ======= The Netly News (http://netlynews.com/) December 22, 1997 SPECIAL REPORT: Censorware in the Stacks by Declan McCullagh (declan@well.com) Antiporn crusaders and free speech advocates have locked horns for years over whether public libraries may cordon off large portions of the Internet. A lawsuit to be filed today against a Virginia county promises to answer that question and set new guidelines for free speech in the stacks. Mainstream Loudoun, a local group, and 11 other plaintiffs are challenging Loudoun County's decision to adopt one of the country's most iron-handed Internet policies, The Netly News has learned. In October, the library board voted to buy software called X-Stop that forbids both children and adults from visiting many sexually explicit web sites -- and plenty of innocuous ones too, such as Quaker and AIDS resources. The plaintiffs hope to persuade a federal judge that X-Stop's overzealousness violates not just traditions of intellectual freedom in libraries, but the First Amendment as well. The 47-page complaint, which calls the restrictions "a harsh and censorial solution in search of a problem," also challenges a rule encouraging librarians to look over your shoulder and make snap judgments on which web sites should be off limits. [...] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:44:03 From: Richard Thieme Subject: File 7--Islands in the Clickstream - December 21, 1997 Islands in the Clickstream: The Digital Forest When the Viking lander sent the first pictures from the surface of Mars, I watched with my neighbor, a video ham, as the Martian desert painted itself slowly down his monitor in narrow bands. That desert was compelling. I burned to go to Mars, and even imagined that I might. So I was deeply disappointed when space exploration went onto the back burner. Yet, only twenty years later, the exploration of near-earth space by tele-robotic sensory extensions of ourselves is happening at every level of the electromagnetic spectrum. Human beings will certainly follow. The exploration of what Europeans called the "New World" excited plenty of interest too. Then things died down. Europe went about its business as usual, but beneath the surface, the structure of the world had indeed shifted. After a lull, Europeans poured onto the continent. I write this column in Wisconsin. It's only been a few hundred years, but the landscape I see from my window is a design that reflects the rectangles and planes of the male European mind. After any breakthrough, we fall back into our comfort zone. Growth for individuals as for civilizations moves in waves. I remember this as I read an article by Gary Chapman in the Los Angeles Times, "The Internet May Be the Latest Media Darling, but It's No Baywatch." Chapman is disappointed by the gap between the hype about the Internet and the reality. He debunks "myths" about the Internet's impact on society. I don't think he can see the forest for the digital trees. Myth 1: Everyone will be online. Chapman: Use of the Internet is limited. "An astonishing 1.6 billion people, worldwide, tune into Baywatch every week. The entire global Internet-using population is 4% of the Baywatch audience." Bigger picture: (1) The Internet, only a few years old in its current incarnation, is being adopted faster than any previous technology. People weren't watching Baywatch when television was four years old; they weren't watching anything. (2) "Internet" is the current name for the network of networked computers. The realities behind the name are evolving into new forms, many hidden in the infrastructure itself. Just as automobiles are becoming electronic devices riding on mechanical platforms, we live increasingly inside an electronic infrastructure. The Internet is not just email or the World Wide Web. It is the entire matrix of electronic connectivity. Myth 2: There will be a huge increase in the varieties of opinion expressed in society because of the ease of online publishing. Chapman: "There is an almost limitless variety of opinion to be found on the World Wide Web and in online forums," but "the dynamic range of opinion in mainstream America appears to be narrowing, not expanding." Bigger picture: Chapman is still looking to the "space" defined by the mainstream media to see what's "real." Multiple sources of influence ARE evolving on-line but they're butterflies that can't be caught in that net. Their very transitoriness and fluidity makes them difficult to define. Myth 3: There will be lots of cool jobs for creative people who will work in cyberspace. Chapman: The hope that the World Wide Web would foster a renaissance in writing and art appears to have died. Writers who flocked to the "new media" are disillusioned. Chapman again: Nobody makes money from the new media. Most information-rich sites lose money like crazy, or, at best, break even. If you want to get wealthy, he says, write a screenplay, a mystery novel or a computer game. Bigger picture: (1) Every transformation of the technology of the Word -- writing, the printing press, electronic media -- magnifies rather than eliminates the media that came before. There are more books and magazines than ever, but that shouldn't be a surprise. Writing did not eliminate speech; the printing press did not end writing. The inability to quickly predict which creative jobs will be viable in cyberspace does not mean that they aren't emerging. We always try to port forms of the old technologies into the new media. That never works. The new media teach us over time how to use them. The dynamic marketplace incubates the forms that are viable. (2) Some sites are making lots of money, e.g. sex sites. It's no coincidence Chapman cites Baywatch as an example. The cutting- edge work to make streaming video and audio easy and seamless is being done at sex sites because people are willing to pay for it. This was true too of VCRs, first used for x-rated films. Mass markets for Hollywood movies and educational videos followed. (3) The Internet will not REPLACE anything. It redefines the relationship of symbolic content (text, images, sounds) to itself and to the human symbol-user. The Internet, as McLuhan said of the electric light, is pure information, an example of context as content. The Internet is redefining how we use other media. Myth 4: Government will fade in significance, perhaps into irrelevance. Chapman: Government, at all levels, is actually becoming bigger and more powerful. Bigger picture: Shortly before the French Revolution, had you suggested that the monarchy, the aristocracy, the church -- everything -- would come down all at once, you would have been thought crazy. The sudden reorganization of everything at a higher level of complexity is called hierarchical restructuring. Because the changes leading to it are exponential, happening everywhere at once, it is invisible until it happens. The Berlin Wall. The Soviet Union. Governments will evolve into forms appropriate to the economic and social structures generated by the technological transformation of our planet, just as nation states emerged in the past few centuries. Chapman was probably once as excited as he is now disappointed. Gary, just you wait. In the short term, predictions are always exaggerated; in the long term, they're always short-sighted. As Alan Kay said, perspective is worth fifty points of IQ. It IS all happening, but we don't know yet what IT is. Emergent realities must wait for the language with which we can discuss them and the seers and prophets who give them names. ********************************************************************** Islands in the Clickstream is a weekly column written by Richard Thieme exploring social and cultural dimensions of computer technology. Comments are welcome. Feel free to pass along columns for personal use, retaining this signature file. 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Box 17737 Milwaukee WI 53217-0737 414.351.2321 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 16:19:49 -0500 From: Paul Kneisel Subject: File 8--The Censorware Project ((Forwarded from Jamie McCarthy)) December 22, 1997 - The Censorware Project, a newly formed organization founded by net activists and writers, today announced the release of its report, "Blacklisted by Cyber Patrol: From Ada to Yoyo." The report takes a close look at over 100 sites blocked by the highly-regarded web filtering software from MicroSystems (a subsidiary of The Learning Company). Previous reports about the accuracy of Cyber Patrol have brought to light some blocks of sites which can be called inappropriate at best. "From Ada to Yoyo" presents many more bad blocks, but the report also takes an in-depth look at special topics: the blocking of internet service providers; of gay sites, including a neighborhood with over 20,000 users; of newsgroups; and the subject of whether such a product is appropriate to censor what adults may see in public libraries. "I was stunned by some of the sites which were blocked," said Jamie McCarthy, a Michigan-based software developer who is a founder of the Censorware Project and author of the report. "Some of the errors at least made sense: there were pages which could be mistaken for explicit material, even though they were not. "But some were bizarre. The town of Ada, Michigan is just an hour's drive from my house: it has a website about local politics, which is blocked as containing full frontal nudity and sexual acts. It's baffling." "We have only scratched the surface in this report of the problems with CyberPatrol," said James S. Tyre, a free speech attorney in Pasadena, California. "Products as riddled with flaws as CyberPatrol have no business in public libraries, which are arms of the government. Libraries exist to promote knowledge and ideas, but CyberPatrol's bad blocks and reblocks of sites it said would be unblocked demonstrate vividly that its agenda is not to promote the free flow of ideas." The Censorware Project's mission is to call public attention to the flaws of blocking software and its inappropriateness in public institutions such as libraries. For more information, please contact Jamie McCarthy at jamie@mccarthy.org. 22 December 1997 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1997 22:51:01 CST From: CuD Moderators Subject: File 9--Cu Digest Header Info (unchanged since 7 May, 1997) Cu-Digest is a weekly electronic journal/newsletter. Subscriptions are available at no cost electronically. 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