At 03:52 ìì 16/11/1996 -1000, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:

A member of the international press who is traveling with President Clinton during his vacation here asked me earlier today, "How's the Internet doing, got a story for me?" I think I may suggest the issues being discussed here. Perhaps non- governmental-censorship matters have not received enough attention in the mass-media yet.

Quite true, and the same thing I was told by the Chief-Editor of "Info" (the weekly Internet-supplement of a prominent Greek journal -Eleftherotypia). One last comment is important here: ****************************************************************** If the 'neo-liberal' ideology of EVERYTHING becoming 'privatised' succeeds, then non-governmental censorship is MUCH more important the governmental censorship. ****************************************************************** The Internet is a threat to the 'traditional' role of the media, and 'list-owners' try tp behave like patronising conventional newspaper-editors. All the filth that was hidden in the closet of the journalistic profession comes out, as a result, in the Net. These people want to _model_ mailing lists after journals -ironically at a time when many journalists are free to write what they like sometimes against the opinions of the journal-owners. Perhaps our only hope is that... Freedom sells. George