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THIS IS HUGE! WATCH OUT AOL
by AOL Busters 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

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DCSB: Chuck Wade; ACH in Internet Payment
by R. A. Hettinga 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [Note that the Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties... --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Chuck Wade, Senior Researcher, Internet Payments and Security, CommerceNet Legacy Electronic Payment Systems meet the Internet: Using ACH for Internet Payments Tuesday, January 2nd, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Electronic payment systems have been around for more than a quarter century, but are characterized by a legacy of private networks and mainframe transaction processing systems. Recently, there have been a variety of new schemes proposed and even implemented to bring legacy epayment systems to the Internet. This is especially true of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system, which is evolving rapidly to support new interfaces with Internet-based payment services. This talk will focus on some of the approaches being used to adapt the legacy ACH system to new Internet payment services, and will explore some of the positive and negative implications of these developments. Chuck Wade is a Senior Researcher for CommerceNet focusing on Internet payments and information security. Prior to joining CommerceNet, he was a Principal Consultant in the Information Security Group of BBN Technologies. At BBN, he led Electronic Commerce initiatives and client engagements, with most of his consulting work within the Financial Industry. As one of the original participants in the FSTC eCheck Project, Chuck has been involved with over-the-Internet electronic payments since the mid 1990's. He also contributed directly to the architecture, design, deployment and testing of various large, mission-critical networks, including the trading floor network for the New York and American Stock Exchanges. In a career spanning a quarter century, Chuck spent all of the '90s with BBN (now a part of Verizon) as a Consultant and Systems Architect. During most of the '80s, he worked at Motorola directing the Advanced Technology Group for the Codex division. He has also worked in the minicomputer industry and university research. He holds both Sc.B. and Sc.M. degrees from Brown University in Electrical Engineering. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2000, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, December 30th, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: February 6 Ted Byfield Decentralized DNS Control March 6 Scott Moskowitz Watermarking and Bluespike As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com>. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQEVAwUBOja+gcUCGwxmWcHhAQECxgf+O7pd13JHzqUaJ8LrsXW62i8WSNsnxYCk qXMX/XXopBJW2gt8RL4nOsAt6A1ssgcLK3+kUOcLom804UryJe1p3DfC/HHJVfJP 1o4vGb31nj16qin4W0aWEolNA3beLGsIKIENeaPeCK2PNTu7htOb94q0GxWSI9Xn 5OSvXe23y0vHsnHWO0Ndwl9D16wk0R3kp1kjIfXwUhFCvo7e12tK/f+BVPJYq/u/ ksTR7Cb63a33WfqDUYE7INbo9PNB9ErnbLrK6w2V2WGLwEsqP2fHpgKwKPyKZQOi wouxQlHXmuyOU4KNdGfU5jsAbzAWE/40+P9phVbK+hMLkJzve5wjCg== =jCmh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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' For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)reservoir.com" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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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DCSB: Chuck Wade; ACH in Internet Payment
by R. A. Hettinga 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [Note that the Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties... --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Chuck Wade, Senior Researcher, Internet Payments and Security, CommerceNet Legacy Electronic Payment Systems meet the Internet: Using ACH for Internet Payments Tuesday, January 2nd, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Electronic payment systems have been around for more than a quarter century, but are characterized by a legacy of private networks and mainframe transaction processing systems. Recently, there have been a variety of new schemes proposed and even implemented to bring legacy epayment systems to the Internet. This is especially true of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system, which is evolving rapidly to support new interfaces with Internet-based payment services. This talk will focus on some of the approaches being used to adapt the legacy ACH system to new Internet payment services, and will explore some of the positive and negative implications of these developments. Chuck Wade is a Senior Researcher for CommerceNet focusing on Internet payments and information security. Prior to joining CommerceNet, he was a Principal Consultant in the Information Security Group of BBN Technologies. At BBN, he led Electronic Commerce initiatives and client engagements, with most of his consulting work within the Financial Industry. As one of the original participants in the FSTC eCheck Project, Chuck has been involved with over-the-Internet electronic payments since the mid 1990's. He also contributed directly to the architecture, design, deployment and testing of various large, mission-critical networks, including the trading floor network for the New York and American Stock Exchanges. In a career spanning a quarter century, Chuck spent all of the '90s with BBN (now a part of Verizon) as a Consultant and Systems Architect. During most of the '80s, he worked at Motorola directing the Advanced Technology Group for the Codex division. He has also worked in the minicomputer industry and university research. He holds both Sc.B. and Sc.M. degrees from Brown University in Electrical Engineering. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2000, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, December 30th, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: February 6 Ted Byfield Decentralized DNS Control March 6 Scott Moskowitz Watermarking and Bluespike As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com>. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQEVAwUBOja+gcUCGwxmWcHhAQECxgf+O7pd13JHzqUaJ8LrsXW62i8WSNsnxYCk qXMX/XXopBJW2gt8RL4nOsAt6A1ssgcLK3+kUOcLom804UryJe1p3DfC/HHJVfJP 1o4vGb31nj16qin4W0aWEolNA3beLGsIKIENeaPeCK2PNTu7htOb94q0GxWSI9Xn 5OSvXe23y0vHsnHWO0Ndwl9D16wk0R3kp1kjIfXwUhFCvo7e12tK/f+BVPJYq/u/ ksTR7Cb63a33WfqDUYE7INbo9PNB9ErnbLrK6w2V2WGLwEsqP2fHpgKwKPyKZQOi wouxQlHXmuyOU4KNdGfU5jsAbzAWE/40+P9phVbK+hMLkJzve5wjCg== =jCmh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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' For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)reservoir.com" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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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This is going to be HUGE!!!
by msbabydoll＠mail.com 12 Dec '00

12 Dec '00

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by selfijfi1＠aol.com 12 Dec '00

12 Dec '00

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This is going to be HUGE!!!
by mbeautylife1＠mail.com 12 Dec '00

12 Dec '00

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Buying Echelon - Echelon and Acension Island .AC domain names available
by Bill Stewart 12 Dec '00

12 Dec '00

Suppose you want to buy up a world-wide spying organization.... There a few Echelon names for sale - echelon.dk is owned, but the web site has a for sale sign echelon.com, org, net, and ca are owned by businesses. echelon.to is taken, but I can't get the web page to respond and email bounces with host unknown echelon.co.uk is taken, but I can't get the web page to respond and email to nonexistent(a)echelon.co.uk gets bouncegrams from postmaster(a)echelon.com, and there's a maze of twisty little MX records hanging around it. echelon.to is "taken" but doesn't have DNS records If Bill Scannell wants an Acension Island domain name to go with his passport stamp, they're available at http://betterwhois.register.com echelon.ac and echelon.sh (St. Helena) are available :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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DCSB: Chuck Wade; ACH in Internet Payment
by R. A. Hettinga 12 Dec '00

12 Dec '00

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Re: leah getting sued (fwd)
by Jim Choate 12 Dec '00

12 Dec '00

Things get serious in alternate-namespace land... ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:24:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Bradley D. Thornton" <tallship(a)tallship.net> Reply-To: orange(a)dns.list To: orange(a)dns.list Cc: orange(a)vrx.net Subject: Re: leah getting sued Sorry Joe, I'm no longer at liberty to discuss this matter. There's a leaker on this "Private" list and I just got contacted by an Australian Barrister with a full copy of my post to this list, and no word as to whom may have forwarded it. To bring a piece of sobering reality to the leakage on a private list just let me point out some earlier jokes from last week where I was the object. "ver didst you put zee microfeesh Vladimer?" Not always as funny as that is it people? So I may start up my own cc list of people on this list of people I "Think" I can trust. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, !dr.baptista wrote: > > good question - bradley?? did the nice begal identify himself? > > regards > joe > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Dan Steinberg wrote: > > > SO? > > My original questions still stand; > > who? > > what? > > where? > > when? > > why? > > > > all you have done is find a venue... > > > > "!dr.baptista" wrote: > > > > > i've changed the subject line - the other subject was geeting confusing. > > > > > > the australian courst are a bit like the canadian courts - one good > > > example is the ontario court general division which in it's wisdom has > > > decided anything to do with the internet that affects a canadian is > > > subject to their jurisdiction. and if for any reason you can't defend > > > yourself - bingo - your guilty. > > > > > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Dan Steinberg wrote: > > > > > > > Yes but all that was about the threat of Leah being sued. not about them > > > > having grounds to sue others. > > > > My point was that someone (cant remember who) figured she was about to be > > > > sued and I was scratching my head wondering (even in the US) how they could > > > > come up with something? > > > > > > > > > > > > "Bradley D. Thornton" wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Dan Steinberg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Dan wrote something in html or something, so it didn't come up in the > > > > > quote, but... > > > > > > > > > > You mentioned irreparable harm. > > > > > > > > > > Isn't Atlantic Root Network Inc., (Leah and Karl) being harmed by the > > > > > publicity of people offering "pre-registrations" for .biz when there > > > > > aren't any, and have never been any "pre-registration" programs for a > > > > > registry that only offers "Live Registrations"? > > > > > > > > > > Isn't that also fraud, since they have never been accredited by the > > > > > Registry that is the only authority that can accept such agreements to > > > > > allow other registrars to accept registrations for .biz? > > > > > > > > > > Aren't they causing harm by stating that it isn't yet available when it > > > > > is? > > > > > > > > > > The PacificRoot is all over the search engines and .BIZ was featured in > > > > > Wired magazine among others. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > ,,, > > > > > (o o) > > > > > |----------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------| > > > > > | Bradley D. Thornton "So foul a sky clears | > > > > > | Mgr NetWork Services not without a storm" | > > > > > | NOMAD Internetwork - Shakespeare - | > > > > > | www.pacificroot.com | > > > > > |----------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > |-----On the Beaches of Super Sunny Southern California----| > > > > > |----------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Dan Steinberg > > > > > > > > SYNTHESIS:Law & Technology > > > > 35, du Ravin phone: (613) 794-5356 > > > > Chelsea, Quebec fax: (819) 827-4398 > > > > J9B 1N1 e-mail:synthesis@vrx.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dan Steinberg > > > > SYNTHESIS:Law & Technology > > 35, du Ravin phone: (613) 794-5356 > > Chelsea, Quebec fax: (819) 827-4398 > > J9B 1N1 e-mail:synthesis@vrx.net > > > > > > > > > > -- ,,, (o o) |----------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------| | Bradley D. Thornton "So foul a sky clears | | Mgr NetWork Services not without a storm" | | NOMAD Internetwork - Shakespeare - | | www.pacificroot.com | |----------------------------------------------------------| |-----On the Beaches of Super Sunny Southern California----| |----------------------------------------------------------|

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Insult Islam online, go to jail
by Declan McCullagh 12 Dec '00

12 Dec '00

Malaysia Takes Action On Anti-Islam Internet Surfers By Steve Gold, Newsbytes KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, 12 Dec 2000, 7:48 AM CST Insulting Islam on the Internet in Malaysia could prove costly from now on, as the government has warned that offenders face fines of up to $1,300 and/or three years in prison. This draconian warning came from Abdul Hamid Othman, a minister in the Malaysian Prime Minister's Department Monday, when he said that any Muslim world Internet surfers who insult the Prophet Mohammed and the Koran, the Muslim equivalent of the bible, on the Internet, face dire consequences. The legal action, he said, will be taken under Syariah criminal law - the Law of Mohammed - which all Muslim states adopt. Othman's comments are likely to attract condemnation from Western Internet users and experts, many of whom, say Islamic proponents, do not understand the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed. ...

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