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<font size=3>I've been working on an article about the censoring of
Internet history which I think should be of interest to most readers of
[ih].<br><br>
With apologies for the inconvenience, it can be found at
<a href="http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/firstmap@sbcglobal.net/" eudora="autourl">
http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/firstmap@sbcglobal.net/</a> ,<br>
just sitting there as the file called "ppapp.html". It's
there because I prefer to protect my good old real, but small and pro
bono, ISP from the many hits it might well receive, so I choose to use
the awkward personal web page-imitation furnished by my new
ISP-impersonator for it instead. (The ISP-impersonator came with
the DSL line I finally broke down and sprung for recently, and I figure I
might as well get some use out of it.)<br><br>
[This, by the way, is the "unpoliticized" version of the
article, despite what some readers might think. In fact, out of
perhaps misguided sentiment I'm still trying to hold out against using
the alternative version I did in response to the suggestion that it would
be more publishable if it were refocused toward the broader
"Internet Governance" theme, which I received when I submitted
an earlier version to one of the more-or-less prominent
(non-"nerd") "e-zines" -- even though I do find the
"politicized" version more amusing....]<br>
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BONUS: Take two Good Marks out of Petty Credit if you know enough
pre-Internet technohistory to be able to explain why I'm doing this
today. (Indeed, e-let me know what you came up with and I'll grant
a third Good Mark -- provided you got it right, of course -- the Petty
Credit budget's running a surplus these days/months/years.)<br>
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cheers, map<br>
<a href="http://www.lafn.org/~ba213/mapstuff.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.lafn.org/~ba213/mapstuff.html<br><br>
</a>"One (indeed, perhaps the only) indisputable benefit of the 'Net
is that you don't have to waste any stamps on, nor be complicitous in the
killing of any trees for, letters to editors and/or other invincibly smug
corporate behemoths that aren't going to be responded to because they
show said institutions up, but need to be sent anyway."<br><br>
--first new, official Elements of
Networking Style Slogan in yearsandyears<br>
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