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Crescendo News - Version 3.0 now available
by LiveUpdate News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You're receiving this email because you downloaded Crescendo in the past, and we want to keep you posted on the latest developments here at LiveUpdate. We hope you are enjoying Crescendo! In case you haven't already heard, Crescendo version 3.0 has been released. This new version includes cool new features like auto-detach, playlist support, encryption, Java and JavaScript programmability and more. Download a copy today from http://www.liveupdate.com/dl.html. As an added bonus at this time of release, and to ensure an enjoyable listening experience, we can now offer you, for a limited time, the Roland Virtual Sound Canvas Music Pack (VSC-550W). This is Roland's software wavetable Sound Canvas and includes a complete set of software tools that will help you create and edit MIDI files for many uses. Included in the VSC-550W Music Pack: * The Roland GS software synthesizer, * Cakewalk Express music sequencing software and * DoReMiX unique music creation software all on one CD-ROM. The Roland Virtual Sound Canvas Music Pack sells regularly for $57. Add Crescendo PLUS for Netscape and Internet Explorer, and the entire package is worth almost $100. By special arrangement with Edirol Corporation (distributors of the Roland Sound Canvas in North America), when you purchase the Crescendo Plus Roland Edition today, you will receive all the above software listed for a special value price of only $65 (including Shipping & Handling!) Note: This offer is only available to addresses in North America. Simply go to http://www.liveupdate.com/soundcanvas.html and we'll send it right out to you! If you wish to be removed from this list, please send a message to newsletter(a)liveupdate.com. Warmest holiday wishes, Your friends at LiveUpdate

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Re: message dependent hashcash => no double
by mark＠unicorn.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve Schear (schear(a)lvdi.net) wrote: >We all know we must affix postage to our snailmail. >Its time to embrace the postal system's paradigm and educate the reminder >of the Net. That's an extremely bad analogy; we're not paying for the Net to carry our mail, because we've already paid our ISP for that. We're paying for remailers to process our mail or for humans to read it. A better analogy would be for snail-junkmail to include a five dollar bill to encourage people to open it rather than junk it unopened. (Of course this really only applies to real digital cash, but that's what hashcash is a substitute for.) Mark

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Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 19:08:31 -0700 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment > This is part of why the First Amendment is being eroded constantly. It is > seen as a _political_ issue. > > Suppose RealBig Corporation fired Umbehr for his views. Would a First > Amendment issue have arisen? But Tim, governmental systems are *not* businesses, and should not simply as a matter of course be operated as such either. There is more involved than a simple bottem line. Perhaps you should talk to Horatio... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Censorware Search Engine update and request for files
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Over at the Netly News Network, we've decided it's time to update our Censorware Search Engine. For those of you who haven't checked it recently, it's a one-of-a-kind web site that lets you see if you've been blocked by filtering software: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/spoofcentral/censored/ We're planning to update this with newer decrypted lists from some of the vendors like SurfWatch, CyberPatrol, and so on. If you have a list and you'd like it to be included, please send it along. -Declan

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17 Dec '03

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Re: NSA Report: Anyone seen this?
by Norman Hardy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just finished reading the report "How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash" by Law, Sabett & Solinas. It can be found at <http://jya.com/nsamint.htm>. It is very well written with only identification of the issues except in the last short paragraph where they clearly lean toward government interests. They identify and distinguish interests of the bank, the consumer's privacy, and the government. Some of the measures that they describe (providing for traceability) might well be done by a bank operating in an anarchy. Imagine that you are running a bank in an anarchy and the son of one of your good customers is kidnapped and held for ransom. Suppose that the kidnapper is a good customer of another bank with whom you have an arm's length relation. The arguments are not simple. Only towards the end does the paper begin to conflate the interests of the government and the bank. Some of the law enforcement purposes that they describe would apply to the anarchy bank, others would not. The paper is the best description I have seen of several advanced money schemes. It has a better description of Chaum's off-line scheme than I had seen before. It describes sever even more advanced schemes, both abstracted form the mathematical details, and then with the details filled in.

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FW: Dr. Vulis is not on cypherpunks any more
by blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Those of you who think that it was wrong, unwarranted censorship for John Gilmore to take Dr. Vulis off the list should note this sentence from John's message: When he posted a message saying that we'd have to use technical means to stop him from flaming the list, I said, "OK". It was Vulis who challenged John to stop him by technical means. It was at John's discretion to do so, and he took the liberty of following up on Vulis' challenge. Vulis did everything to set himself up for what he got, did he not. .. Blanc

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Re: White House admits censoring Chinese dissident
by Jim Ray 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 08:42 AM 12/19/97 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >=========== > > South China Morning Post > > December 19, 1997 > >Storm over block on Wei TV broadcast; White House red-faced after >censorship admission > >By Simon Beck > > > The Clinton administration was in the middle of a firestorm yesterday >after officials admitted blocking a global broadcast of a Wei Jingsheng >interview for fear of annoying China. > > After winning praise for receiving Mr Wei in the White House last week, >President Bill Clinton's officials were embarrassed to have to admit >blocking the broadcast on the state-owned global network Worldnet. > > Officials tried in vain to stop the government radio station, Voice of >America (VOA), from broadcasting the interview, but succeeded in blocking >it from Worldnet. > > Both broadcasting arms are run by the official US Information Agency >(USIA). ...And people still wonder why us "social Darwinists" oppose state ownership of "news" media. <sigh> I wonder if I should say "'your taxes' _or_ 'their contributions' at work." JMR -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh. iQEPAwUBNJqXdTUhsGSn1j2pAQHeEQfQ4oMBYBxh5Ad5X8ICkDXj/llDBDts4ybD yHlO8bMQ2TMOY3qQ6UizQX0dMntVzoHZUGJ92Lo4bfrtcCwrpHsE7wqGozpTziqj 2BZH+N5pBiyMu8mdn2PayOLuYB5xdOPuasENgBGTk07nGrDivClbPE/YQpFBQ4BJ 9GzxzVC8xSzAwnd8rV59iqbaqpLnf5iaYxhEJzAwnI7JbkOwpTTAF4XtKi1SXfm2 otBQJCzwR49vqyFEfrvCPC3STRmqJfCpyiNn/jDrJKY30/yAd0OuiX7/4cBkcPbd N4d+QqjDUJhEHXHICOTkCjjkNDl9zOS9LcvYSu7ySYMQcw== =7hi3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RESPONSE FROM CYBERPROMO
by abusebot＠savetrees.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Version 10-9-96: Cyber Promotions has started to implement stricter Terms of Service policies WITH TEETH. We have just recently terminated several accounts for abuse of our policies. (Updated TOS at end of message). The following email accounts have been *recently TERMINATED... *jrtkjs(a)savetrees.com 10-9-96: Forgery and spamming INTERNET *jrtkjs(a)answerme.com "" "" "" "" "" "" *dollars(a)savetrees.com Non-existant account. The account was forged by the people who opened the accounts above. *info1(a)cyberpromo.com 10-8-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses *changes(a)answerme.com 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses *changes(a)cyberpromo.com 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses *changes(a)savetrees.com 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses *catalog(a)savetrees.com 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses *catalog(a)cyberpromo.com 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses *catalog(a)answerme.com 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses *eleven(a)answerme.com 9-28-96: Forgeries *eleven(a)savetrees.com 9-28-96: Forgeries *eleven(a)answerme.com 9-28-96: Forgeries *tsahk(a)cyberpromo.com 9-27-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses *tsahk(a)answerme.com 9-27-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses *icssender(a)omni.cyberpromo.com 9-19-96: FORGED unsolicited email, making it appear that Cyberpromo's auto-sender was responsible. If you are in receipt of the message, please look through the headers and complain to the appropriate postmasters. networkes(a)answerme.com 9-17-96: Ignored remove requests networkes(a)cyberpromo.com 9-17-96: Ignored remove requests networkes(a)savetrees.com 9-17-96: Ignored remove requests reminders(a)answerme.com 9-17-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses reminders(a)savetrees.com 9-17-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses reminders(a)cyberpromo.com 9-17-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses salespromo(a)answerme.com 9-16-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses salespromo(a)savetrees.com "" "" "" "" salespromo(a)cyberpromo.com "" "" "" "" promo(a)answerme.com "" "" "" "" promo(a)savetrees.com "" "" "" "" promo(a)cyberpromo.com "" "" "" "" info4free(a)answerme.com "" "" "" "" info4free(a)savetrees.com "" "" "" "" info4free(a)cyberpromo.com "" "" "" "" manda(a)cyberpromo.com 8-28: Massive abuse to INTERNET addresses / FORGERY manda(a)answerme.com 8-28: Massive abuse to INTERNET addresses / FORGERY website(a)cyberpromo.com 8-27: excessive abuse to AOL / removals ignored sevenmil(a)cyberpromo.com 8-27: excessive abuse / all removals ignored sevenmil(a)answerme.com 8-27: "" "" "" "" "" "" vera(a)cyberpromo.com vera(a)answerme.com zol(a)answerme.com website(a)answerme.com allied(a)cyberpromo.com allied(a)answerme.com lists(a)cyberpromo.com lists(a)answerme.com If you have a complaint about an account that was not listed above, please forward it to our President's personal account: wallace(a)cyberpromo.com We currently operate the following servers: answerme.com cyberpromo.com omni.cyberpromo.com gamut.cyberpromo.com We DO NOT operate the following servers: uunet interramp athens.servint cais postman.com powernet pwrsite Cyber Promotions is *not* in business to annoy people. We are in the business of sending (and assisting in sending) commercial (and noncommercial) email to people who are *not* offended by the receipt of these messages. Unfortunately, due to many experiences (many of which were out of our control) we have had some problems accomplishing our goals without upsetting some people. We are truly sorry about that fact, and we plan to "clean up the streets" as best as we can. Some people have been under the impression that all email that appears to come from cyberpromo.com, is from Cyber Promotions. That is not true. Most of the complaints that we have recently received have been in reaction to people who have "autoresponders" and "virtual email addresses" on our system. In that case, their mail would have referenced an account on our system, but originated from a different site. Unfortunately, software like Pegasus enables their mail to appear as if it came from us, driectly. But, their true origination is still evident in the headers. You can determine where it originated if you know how to decode headers. But when doing so, remember that Pegasus, for example, actually logs into *our* sendmail. At this time, the only messages that originate from Cyber Promotions, use our proprietary Cyber Sender 2.1+ protocol which will always be indicated in the organization: header. Due to these "look alikes," it could appear that recipients' remove request were being ignored. WE DO NOT IGNORE REMOVE REQUESTS. We now also maintain a "master" remove list of people who have asked to be removed from all commercial mailing lists. If you have received an email from "Cyber Sender 2.1+", our new proprietary transport agent protocol, then the remove features *do* work properly, now that all of the bugs have been fixed (uppercase and lowercase now match, too). No mail is allowed out of our system, if the recipient's address is in our master remove list. We currently have over 1.1 million email addresses in that file. 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This can be attributed to the "alias" that your outgoing mail may contain. If you are having problems, please send an email to manremove(a)cyberpromo.com and type both of your email addresses in the body of the message, each on its own line, without any comments. The subject line is ignored. You probably have one address like xazd35r(a)prodigy.com and another address like sanford(a)prodigy.com. ATTENTION PIPELINE MEMBERS: It has come to Cyber Promotions' attention, that some of you are having a major problem removing yourselves from our lists. This can be attributed to the "alias" that your outgoing mail may contain. If you are having problems, please send an email to manremove(a)cyberpromo.com and type your email addresses in the body of the message, each on its own line, without any comments. The subject line is ignored. You should type your email id followed by the following THREE domains. @usa.pipeline.com, @pipeline.com, @nyc.pipeline.com. 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17 Dec '03

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