[This is the conference Tim was criticizing yesterday. --Declan] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:49:01 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: FC: More on Association for Interactive Media conference Netly articles on AIM: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,1155,00.html http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,1464,00.html -Declan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 10:24:20 -0800 From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> To: declan@well.com, gnu@toad.com Subject: Re: FC: Association for Interactive Media conference (DC, 2/98) [for forwarding if you like] Note that AIM, the sponsors of the "WashingtonWeb" conference, are the folks who appear to be paid stooges for Network Solutions in trying to keep their ten million dollar per month monopoly on domain names. AIM's coverage of that issue has been completely false and completely biased ("The Internet is likely to break apart on October 15, 1997"; "you may lose all rights to use your trademark in your Internet address forever". See www.interactivehq.org/oic/). They've been deliberately making false statements to stir up sentiment against the evolution of domain names away from the Network Solutions monopoly. I wouldn't promote or attend their conference. There's something going on there that I don't understand -- but I do recognize slime when I see it. John Gilmore -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo@vorlon.mit.edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------