December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

More on Postel
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Subject: IP: Remembrance/postel From: Dave Farber [farber(a)cis.upenn.edu] I, and others I fear, have spent a sleepless night after hearing of the death of Jon Postel last night. This morning there was a note in my mail box from Vint Cerf that said many of the things I feel at this time. I asked him for permission to send on which he granted. I also remember Jon. I was his primary thesis advisor along with Jerry Estrin and I remember with fond memories the months spent closely working with Jon while his eager mind developed the ideas in back of what was a pioneering thesis that founded the area of protocol verification. Since I was at UC Irvine and Jon at UCLA we used to meet in the morning prior to my ride to UCI at a Pancake House in Santa Monica for breakfast and the hard work of developing a thesis. I gained a great respect for Jon then and 10 pounds of weight. I will miss him greatly. Jon was my second Ph.D. student. The first, Philip Merlin, also died way before his time. Dave ________________________________________________________________________ October 17, 1998 I REMEMBER IANA Vint Cerf A long time ago, in a network, far far away, a great adventure took place Out of the chaos of new ideas for communication, the experiments, the tentative designs, and crucible of testing, there emerged a cornucopia of networks. Beginning with the ARPANET, an endless stream of networks evolved, and ultimately were interlinked to become the Internet. Someone had to keep track of all the protocols, the identifiers, networks and addresses and ultimately the names of all the things in the networked universe. And someone had to keep track of all the information that erupted with volcanic force from the intensity of the debates and discussions and endless invention that has continued unabated for 30 years. That someone was Jonathan B. Postel, our Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, friend, engineer, confidant, leader, icon, and now, first of the giants to depart from our midst. Jon, our beloved IANA, is gone. Even as I write these words I cannot quite grasp this stark fact. We had almost lost him once before in 1991. Surely we knew he was at risk as are we all. But he had been our rock, the foundation on which our every web search and email was built, always there to mediate the random dispute, to remind us when our documentation did not do justice to its subject, to make difficult decisions with apparent ease, and to consult when careful consideration was needed. We will survive our loss and we will remember. He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts to contemplate. Steadfast service for decades, moving when others seemed paralyzed, always finding the right course in a complex minefield of technical and sometimes political obstacles. Jon and I went to the same high school, Van Nuys High, in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. But we were in different classes and I really didnt know him then. Our real meeting came at UCLA when we became a part of a group of graduate students working for Prof. Leonard Kleinrock on the ARPANET project. Steve Crocker was another of the Van Nuys crowd who was part of the team and led the development of the first host-host protocols for the ARPANET. When Steve invented the idea of the Request for Comments series, Jon became the instant editor. When we needed to keep track of all the hosts and protocol identifiers, Jon volunteered to be the Numbers Czar and later the IANA once the Internet was in place. Jon was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board and served continuously from its founding to the present. He was the FIRST individual member of the Internet Society I know, because he and Steve Wolff raced to see who could fill out the application forms and make payment first and Jon won. He served as a trustee of the Internet Society. He was the custodian of the .US domain, a founder of the Los Nettos Internet service, and, by the way, managed the networking research division of USC Information Sciences Institute. Jon loved the outdoors. I know he used to enjoy backpacking in the high Sierras around Yosemite. Bearded and sandaled, Jon was our resident hippie-patriarch at UCLA. He was a private person but fully capable of engaging photon torpedoes and going to battle stations in a good engineering argument. And he could be stubborn beyond all expectation. He could have outwaited the Sphinx in a staring contest, I think. Jon inspired loyalty and steadfast devotion among his friends and his colleagues. For me, he personified the words selfless service. For nearly 30 years, Jon has served us all, taken little in return, indeed sometimes receiving abuse when he should have received our deepest appreciation. It was particularly gratifying at the last Internet Society meeting in Geneva to see Jon receive the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union. It is an award generally reserved for Heads of State but I can think of no one more deserving of global recognition for his contributions. While it seems almost impossible to avoid feeling an enormous sense of loss, as if a yawning gap in our networked universe had opened up and swallowed our friend, I must tell you that I am comforted as I contemplate what Jon has wrought. He leaves a legacy of edited documents that tell our collective Internet story, including not only the technical but also the poetic and whimsical as well. He completed the incorporation of a successor to his service as IANA and leaves a lasting legacy of service to the community in that role. His memory is rich and vibrant and will not fade from our collective consciousness. What would Jon have done? we will think, as we wrestle in the days ahead with the problems Jon kept so well tamed for so many years. There will almost surely be many memorials to Jons monumental service to the Internet Community. As current chairman of the Internet Society, I pledge to establish an award in Jons name to recognize long-standing service to the community, the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, which is awarded to Jon posthumously as its first recipient. If Jon were here, I am sure he would urge us not to mourn his passing but to celebrate his life and his contributions. He would remind us that there is still much work to be done and that we now have the responsibility and the opportunity to do our part. I doubt that anyone could possibly duplicate his record, but it stands as a measure of one mans astonishing contribution to a community he knew and loved.

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Fwd: AUCRYPTO: for distrib. (fwd)
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >From: Darren Reed <darrenr(a)reed.wattle.id.au> >Message-Id: <199810160852.SAA04406(a)avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> >Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:52:47 +1000 (EST) >Reply-To: aucrypto(a)suburbia.net >To: aucrypto(a)suburbia.net >X-Mailing-List: <aucrypto(a)suburbia.net> >Subject: AUCRYPTO: for distrib. (fwd) I read this today and thought it might be of general interest. Darren > The public key > > The perception of people losing their privacy has hit the mainstream. ABC > News began a series on October 5th entitled Privacy Lost. > > Operation Echelon, if you haven't heard of it yet you will once mainstream > media gets a hold of it. We began reading about this and the more > information we found the more we began to think George Orwell worked for the > NSA [USA National Security Agency ]. When all the details surface we > may find that big brother really does > exist and has for some time. The NSA reportedly worked closely with other > security agencies to build an interception network. This network is so vast > that it can supposedly intercept every electronic communication on the > planet. The ramifications of this network existing we think will be far > reaching and go a long way to forming online privacy policy in the future. > > The NSA was also nice enough to provide us with our next topic as well. It > appears that up until a few years ago the NSA had a clandestine agreement > with a Swiss cryptography company, Crypto AG. Crypto AG also at one time > provided most of the encryption equipment used at the diplomatic level > around the world. What's special about this is, the agreement allowed the > NSA to embed key-recovery devices inside products sold to other countries. > The NSA could read the information transmitted with these products as easily > as reading the newspaper. This was an ongoing process until March 1992, > when Iranian counterintelligence agents arrested a marketing representative > from Crypto AG on suspicion of spying. The battle for privacy continues. ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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Jon Postel
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:32:10 -0400 Reply-To: wb8foz(a)nrk.com Originator: com-priv(a)lists.psi.com Sender: com-priv(a)lists.psi.com Precedence: bulk From: David Lesher <wb8foz(a)nrk.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <com-priv(a)lists.psi.com> Subject: Jon Postel X-Comment: Commercialization and Privatization of the Internet died last night.... You might want to read Vin Cerf's thoughts on David Farber's Interesting people list...... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Jon Postel (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:39:35 -0400 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Jon Postel > You might want to read Vin Cerf's thoughts on David Farber's > Interesting people list...... Pray tell how?... ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Now *this* is funny...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer(a)telepath.com Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:06:07 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Fake Message Sends AOL E-Mail Astray Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/washtech/wtech001.htm Fake Message Sends AOL E-Mail Astray By Leslie Walker Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 16, 1998 A fake e-mail sent to the keeper of the Internet's global address book yesterday erased America Online Inc.'s spot on the global computer network, causing thousands of incoming e-mails to go to the wrong place and preventing many people from visiting AOL's World Wide Web site. AOL officials said all the misdirected e-mail should show up eventually in the correct mailboxes. But the incident highlighted a security issue involving how the central addresses known as domains are administered on the Internet. The incident began before 5 a.m. when someone impersonating an AOL official sent e-mail to InterNIC, the Herndon organization that maintains the domain name registry for the Internet, InterNIC spokesman Christopher Clough said. The message requested the electronic address of AOL's domain be changed. Because AOL had chosen the lowest of three security levels possible for making such a change, it was made automatically, with no review by any person at Network Solutions Inc., the company that runs InterNIC, Clough said. The new address assigned was that of Autonet.net, an Internet service provider. Mail meant for AOL automatically was diverted to Autonet, overwhelming computers at the service. In AOL's network monitoring center in Dulles, people monitoring traffic volumes noticed a drop in the volume of e-mail coming in from the Internet. They began investigating and found the change, AOL spokeswoman Ann Brackbill said. AOL rented a computer to lend to Autonet.net yesterday to reroute the e-mail back to AOL while company officials simultaneously working with InterNIC to correct AOL's address, Brackbill said. AOL's actual Internet domain - AOL.com - was not changed, but the directions the Internet uses in sending Web surfers there were changed because of the fraudulent e-mail, so they couldn't get to the site. Instead, error messages appeared on their screens. "It's like if the phone book published the wrong address for AAA, and you went there to get a map," Brackbill said. "You wouldn't be able to get anything." Clough said the e-mail came as a form message that was accepted automatically because it appeared to come from the correct person and address at AOL.com that was authorized to change AOL's InterNIC records. Computer buffs call an incident of this kind "a spoof" - an impersonation of someone by e-mail. By 4:30 p.m., AOL's address had been corrected in the main Internet address book, but it often takes hours for changes to travel throughout the global network, Clough said. AOL officials estimated that 12 percent to 15 percent of its e-mail was affected Only about half of AOL's e-mail traffic comes from the Internet; the other half is internal. In addition, 10 percent to 20 percent of the people trying to access its Web site received error messages. AOL officials asked InterNIC yesterday to change the security level for its domain name records. The two higher levels available - and apparently used by most commercial Internet operations - involve either a password or encryption in the request for a change to the address. Brackbill couldn't explain why AOL chose the lowest security level, except to note that the record was created "a long time ago." "We've never had a problem before with this and our goal is to make sure we don't have it again," she said. AOL is cooperating with law enforcement officials to identify the culprit. © Copyright The Washington Post Company ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **************************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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2nd Report on Political Control Technologies
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forward: Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:26:38 +0200 To: jya(a)pipeline.com From: Marie-Jose Klaver <klaver(a)nrc.nl> Subject: Second report An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control I'm a Dutch journalist, working for NRC Handelsblad, one of the major newspapers in the Netherlands. I've been reporting about the STOA report An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control since last February. A second report came out last month. I got a copy a few days ago from the Omega Foundation and had an article about it in NRC Handelsblad today. This second report has interesting information about the so called EU-FBI global surveillance plan. According to a secret memorandum the EU countries have agreed with the FBI to intercept all European datacommunication. To do this some EU countries like Holland and Germany changed their laws to make broad wiretapping and interception of Internet and other datacommunication possible. Germany changed its constitution in the beginning of this year and in Holland a law was made and accepted by both chambers of the Parliament that obliges all firms with computer and communication networks (providers, telco's, newspapers etc.) to make their systems tappable. You can read the second report at: http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon/stoa2sept1998.html [104K] Marie-Jose Klaver NRC Handelsblad http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon ---------- There's much new information in the report, especially on the US export of political control technologies which complements Amnesty International's recent critique of US violations of human rights, as well as the US Bureau of Prisons reorganization, all to accommodate the rise in domestic and foreign freedom fighters, oops, terrorists, as global Justice and Defense agencies characterize naysayers to bloated organs of dysfunctional cracies.

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Re: Jon Postel
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hettinga: >> You might want to read Vin[t] Cerf's thoughts on David Farber's >> Interesting people list...... Choate: > Pray tell how?... ----------forwarded from Dave Farber's IP list------------ Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 07:28:40 -0400 From: Dave Farber <farber(a)cis.upenn.edu> Subject: IP: Remembrance/postel I, and others I fear, have spent a sleepless night after hearing of the death of Jon Postel last night. This morning there was a note in my mail box from Vint Cerf that said many of the things I feel at this time. I asked him for permission to send on which he granted. I also remember Jon. I was his primary thesis advisor along with Jerry Estrin and I remember with fond memories the months spent closely working with Jon while his eager mind developed the ideas in back of what was a pioneering thesis that founded the area of protocol verification. Since I was at UC Irvine and Jon at UCLA we used to meet in the morning prior to my ride to UCI at a Pancake House in Santa Monica for breakfast and the hard work of developing a thesis. I gained a great respect for Jon then and 10 pounds of weight. I will miss him greatly. Jon was my second Ph.D. student. The first, Philip Merlin, also died way before his time. Dave ________________________________________________________________________ October 17, 1998 I REMEMBER IANA Vint Cerf A long time ago, in a network, far far away, a great adventure took place? Out of the chaos of new ideas for communication, the experiments, the tentative designs, and crucible of testing, there emerged a cornucopia of networks. Beginning with the ARPANET, an endless stream of networks evolved, and ultimately were interlinked to become the Internet. Someone had to keep track of all the protocols, the identifiers, networks and addresses and ultimately the names of all the things in the networked universe. And someone had to keep track of all the information that erupted with volcanic force from the intensity of the debates and discussions and endless invention that has continued unabated for 30 years. That someone was Jonathan B. Postel, our Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, friend, engineer, confidant, leader, icon, and now, first of the giants to depart from our midst. Jon, our beloved IANA, is gone. Even as I write these words I cannot quite grasp this stark fact. We had almost lost him once before in 1991. Surely we knew he was at risk as are we all. But he had been our rock, the foundation on which our every web search and email was built, always there to mediate the random dispute, to remind us when our documentation did not do justice to its subject, to make difficult decisions with apparent ease, and to consult when careful consideration was needed. We will survive our loss and we will remember. He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts to contemplate. Steadfast service for decades, moving when others seemed paralyzed, always finding the right course in a complex minefield of technical and sometimes political obstacles. Jon and I went to the same high school, Van Nuys High, in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. But we were in different classes and I really didn?t know him then. Our real meeting came at UCLA when we became a part of a group of graduate students working for Prof. Leonard Kleinrock on the ARPANET project. Steve Crocker was another of the Van Nuys crowd who was part of the team and led the development of the first host-host protocols for the ARPANET. When Steve invented the idea of the Request for Comments series, Jon became the instant editor. When we needed to keep track of all the hosts and protocol identifiers, Jon volunteered to be the Numbers Czar and later the IANA once the Internet was in place. Jon was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board and served continuously from its founding to the present. He was the FIRST individual member of the Internet Society I know, because he and Steve Wolff raced to see who could fill out the application forms and make payment first and Jon won. He served as a trustee of the Internet Society. He was the custodian of the .US domain, a founder of the Los Nettos Internet service, and, by the way, managed the networking research division of USC Information Sciences Institute. Jon loved the outdoors. I know he used to enjoy backpacking in the high Sierras around Yosemite. Bearded and sandaled, Jon was our resident hippie-patriarch at UCLA. He was a private person but fully capable of engaging photon torpedoes and going to battle stations in a good engineering argument. And he could be stubborn beyond all expectation. He could have outwaited the Sphinx in a staring contest, I think. Jon inspired loyalty and steadfast devotion among his friends and his colleagues. For me, he personified the words ?selfless service.? For nearly 30 years, Jon has served us all, taken little in return, indeed sometimes receiving abuse when he should have received our deepest appreciation. It was particularly gratifying at the last Internet Society meeting in Geneva to see Jon receive the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union. It is an award generally reserved for Heads of State but I can think of no one more deserving of global recognition for his contributions. While it seems almost impossible to avoid feeling an enormous sense of loss, as if a yawning gap in our networked universe had opened up and swallowed our friend, I must tell you that I am comforted as I contemplate what Jon has wrought. He leaves a legacy of edited documents that tell our collective Internet story, including not only the technical but also the poetic and whimsical as well. He completed the incorporation of a successor to his service as IANA and leaves a lasting legacy of service to the community in that role. His memory is rich and vibrant and will not fade from our collective consciousness. ?What would Jon have done?? we will think, as we wrestle in the days ahead with the problems Jon kept so well tamed for so many years. There will almost surely be many memorials to Jon?s monumental service to the Internet Community. As current chairman of the Internet Society, I pledge to establish an award in Jon?s name to recognize long-standing service to the community, the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, which is awarded to Jon posthumously as its first recipient. If Jon were here, I am sure he would urge us not to mourn his passing but to celebrate his life and his contributions. He would remind us that there is still much work to be done and that we now have the responsibility and the opportunity to do our part. I doubt that anyone could possibly duplicate his record, but it stands as a measure of one man?s astonishing contribution to a community he knew and loved. ----------end of forward from Dave Farber's IP list---------- -- Jim Gillogly Hevensday, 26 Winterfilth S.R. 1998, 22:01 12.19.5.10.19, 10 Cauac 12 Yax, Third Lord of Night

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IP: FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:07:00 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Forwarded: --------------- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 01:37:23 -0500 From: Kepi <kepi(a)netdoor.com> Subject: FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate Source: Yahoo! News Friday October 16 3:00 PM EDT FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate By Aaron Pressman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission next week will propose requiring telephone companies to make a series of changes to give law enforcement agencies additional wiretapping capabilities, people familiar with the plan said. The proposal, which will only be issued for comment and could be changed, seeks to resolve the long-running dispute between the telephone industry, privacy advocates and the FBI over terms of the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. The law was intended to preserve the FBI's ability to conduct wiretaps as telephone carriers introduced new digital technology making traditional alligator clip-and-wire approaches obsolete. But the law also sought to maintain the existing limits on wiretapping authority that protect the privacy of ordinary citizens. Much to the chagrin of privacy groups, the FCC's preliminary proposal would require wireless telephone carriers to turn over to law enforcers the location of a mobile phone user at the beginning and end of a tapped call, people familiar with the plan said. ``From a privacy protection perspective, the tracking question is tremendously important,'' said Jim Dempsey, senior staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit privacy group in Washington. ``Congress never would have passed this legislation if they thought they were turning cell phones into tracking devices,'' added Dempsey, who as a congressional staffer helped draft the law. But, heeding the call of privacy advocates, the FCC proposal will urge further study concerning the way digital calling information is turned over to law enforcers. Under current law, the police must give a judge evidence of probable cause of criminal activity to get permission to tap a call. But to get basic routing information, such as what numbers were called from a particular phone, the police need show only that the information might be relevant to an investigation, a much lower standard. In digital calling networks, however, a call is split up into tiny data packets that contain both the voice transmission and routing and signaling information. An industry proposal last year would have turned over to police entire packets of information, including both the routing data and the actual call itself, when just basic routing information was authorized. The FCC proposal will seek to determine if a more limited method of handing over just routing information would be feasible. The FBI has already rejected as inadequate the industry proposal that included the cell phone location and full packet disclosure provisions. The agency asked the FCC to require carriers to add another nine capabilities, such as the ability to continue listening to a conference call even if the caller being tapped hangs up. The FCC proposal recommends some but not all of the nine items should be added to phone networks, but also asked for further comments on all nine items. The industry fears refitting existing equipment to add those capabilities will cost billions of dollars. Their fears were confirmed in a recent letter from Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh to Congress, dated Oct. 6, and obtained by Reuters, that conceded the costs could reach $2 billion. Industry participants were pleased that the FCC was moving to address the issues, though. ``We have not seen the details yet but we're pleased the FCC is moving forward,'' Jeff Cohen, a spokesman for the Personal Communications Industry Association, said. Copyright © 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19981016/tc/fcc_2. html **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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