At 09:04 PM 7/25/97 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 9:18 AM -0700 7/25/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
RSAC-PS raises the same troubling questions as RSACnews: what is a "public service" group? Who decides?
This question is easy to answer. By being publicly available, they are ALL offering public services. Therefore they are all free from mandatory/voluntary ratings.
Bridges are at a bargain this week... Of course my dear friend Bill knows better than to believe what he wrote. :-) The large media conglomerates (really an extension of the government) will decide under the "voluntary" rating system who is a "reliable" news source worthy of a RSACi carte blanc. Hmm, sounds just like the "persons of undoubted reliability" authorized to acquire firearms in Europe a while back. [Reichsgesetzblatt, year 1928, number 18, part 1, paragraph 16.1] After all, we wouldn't want people of questionable reputation, such as John Young, publish news anybody can read. It might disturb some children. Not to mention their parents. Sounds to me like the established media is supporting a system designed to hamper their competion. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/