Quoth Sneal, verily I say unto thee: -=>lift. However, while we're on the subject, I'm wondering if any -=>arrangements have been made to distribute anti-Clipper material at [ONE BBSCON] -=>I'd be happy to distribute flyers or what-have-you, but -=>they'd have to reach the show by other means; I'm not willing to -=>carry such seditious material across the US/Canada border. Well, quick someone draft something that will fit onto one page. I'll be happy to xerox several hundred of them. -=> I hope that EFF will have a presence at the show* They will. One of the strongest presences at the whole show. Reminds me, I think we (meaning libertarianistically minded sysops and users) should organize another con, to compete with ONE BBSCON. ONE BBSCON (Online Networking Exposition & BBS Convention) will apparently be held in the same place every year, costs $325 just to get in the door, and it 100% controlled by the corporate interests that are screwing up the BBS scene. We need a new con that is run by, and caters to, the hobbyist and shareware BBS scene. Still lots of room for vendors, but for the non- and semi-commercial software authors, who are left behind by ONE BBSCON's outrageous prices for display booth space. [back to EFF] -=>as they did last -=>year, and can sow some further seeds of discontent among the -=>non-Internet online world, many parts of which don't seem aware of -=>the Clipper debacle. Any comments from the EFF folks hereabouts? I certainly don't speak for them, but from what I've seen of the list of conferences and seminars, they will be covering a very wide variety of material. -=>* I had a great time arguing with Shari Steele and accusing her of -=>"dancing with the Devil" w/ reference to backing then-Senator Gore's -=>Data Superhighway proposal. Very libertarially-incorrect position to -=>take, Shari. :-) Back then it sounded cool. I was all for it too, until he got to be VP and then the view darkened considerably. Hell, I never should've trusted the husband of the Wicked Witch that came up with the PMRC! Seriously, as originally announced, it didn't sound all that bad, and I think many of us figured we could activize enough to get it to be what we wanted. This did not happen however. -- Stanton McCandlish * Space Migration * Networking * ChaOrder * NO GOV'T. * anton@hydra.unm.edu * Intelligence Increase * Nano * Crypto * NO RELIGION * FidoNet: 1:301/2 * Life Extension * Ethics * VR * Now! * NO MORE LIES! * Noise in the Void BBS * +1-505-246-8515 (24hr, 1200-14400, v32bis, N-8-1) *