At 1:44 PM 11/13/96 +0000, Adam Back wrote:

A very good idea. There was some discussion of this kind of thing a while back about doing this for Singapore. The suggestion at the time was not to do it perfectly, but rather to arrange something simple to allow people to circumvent the censorship enforced through their compulsory use of a government censored web proxy.

I hope it is ready. To quote from William Safire's 11/14/96 NYT column: "Let's run a test. "Information Technology and Political Control in Singapore" is a paper just issued by Prof. Gary Rodan of Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, distribued by Chalmers Johnson of the Japan Policy Research Institute in Cardiff, Calif. It's on this web site: http://www.nmjc.ord/jpri/. "If Lee blocks access, Singaporeans, try E-mail: cjohnson@ucsd.edu. But be careful, global business executives: the Architect of the New Century [Lee Kuan Yew - wsf] may be monitoring everything you download." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The lottery is a tax on | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | those who can't do math. | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | - Who 1st said this? | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA