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Good piece, Declan. Is Time getting access to the restricted Congressional Web site which offers the Starr report early for members only drooling? Or are the major mediums getting preferential copies in concert with the deliberately under-provided House/Thomas/GPO rigs? These are the four public access sites given by the NYT today, which notes that no one yet knows the digital format -- text, word processor or PDF images: http://www.house.gov/icreport/ (House Information Resources) http://www.house.gov/judiciary (House Judiciary Committee) http://thomas.loc.gov/icreport/ (Library of Congress) http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/icreport/ (Government Printing Office) If its PDF then the delay is surely deliberately planned to favor those with scratchback access.
Well, let me just say this: We expect to have the document in electronic form as early as possible. Also, while we're not relying on AP, the company is making the file available on a passworded FTP site for its members. And FNS is promising to OCR it if necessary and send it to its subscribers this evening for $85. -Declan On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, John Young wrote:
Good piece, Declan. Is Time getting access to the restricted Congressional Web site which offers the Starr report early for members only drooling? Or are the major mediums getting preferential copies in concert with the deliberately under-provided House/Thomas/GPO rigs?
These are the four public access sites given by the NYT today, which notes that no one yet knows the digital format -- text, word processor or PDF images:
http://www.house.gov/icreport/ (House Information Resources)
http://www.house.gov/judiciary (House Judiciary Committee)
http://thomas.loc.gov/icreport/ (Library of Congress)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/icreport/ (Government Printing Office)
If its PDF then the delay is surely deliberately planned to favor those with scratchback access.
/cat:V/pri:U/sld:A/por:1/for:5/slu:BC-STARRREPORTTEXT Advisory ----- @TEXT <B>BC-Starr Report Text, Advisory,0057<P> <B>MANAGING EDITORS:<P> <B>WIRE EDITORS:<P> We are still awaiting the Starr report. We will advise immediately when the report is available. Until then, please refrain from logging onto the ftp sites. Otherwise, there is a danger of jamming the sites and preventing us from posting the report. <B>The AP<P> APTV-09-11-98 1330EDT
From Jim Burns:
Is there any effort underway to mirror the report to various archives? This is going to kill the DC internet corridor otherwise.
What I heard on the radio this morning was that the house will press CD's that will be distributed to mirror servers (presumably the major Internet news providers.) Now, the real interesting question: will the files be PGP-signed? Martin Minow minow@pobox.com
At 11:42 AM -0700 9/11/98, Jim Burnes wrote:
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Declan McCullagh wrote:
etc delete....
Declan:
Is there any effort underway to mirror the report to various archives? This is going to kill the DC internet corridor otherwise.
Turn on the television. All of the networks and news stations are mirroring it. The ones I've tried, cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc., are also swamped. However, the talking heads--no pun intended--are all reading the sordid details about Clinton's cigar being inserted into Monica's vagina, about how Clinton talked with Congressional leaders while Monica was giving him a blowjob, and how Clinton suborned perjury and tampered with evidence.... "The guy is going down...in more ways than one." BTW, I had heard Matt Drudge on the cigar issue before Declan visited a few weeks ago. I was able to "break" this story to Declan, no mean feat. --Tim May (This space left blank pending determ. of acceptability to the gov't.) ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Declan McCullagh wrote: etc delete.... Declan: Is there any effort underway to mirror the report to various archives? This is going to kill the DC internet corridor otherwise. jim burnes
:: Anon-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, Jim Burnes <jvb@ssds.com>, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> At 12:12 PM 9/11/98 -0700, Tim May wrote:
details about Clinton's cigar being inserted into Monica's vagina, about how Clinton talked with Congressional leaders while Monica was giving him a blowjob, and how Clinton suborned perjury and tampered with evidence....
There's a footnote that mentions oral-anal sex. Perhaps in DC this is a crime?
On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, David Honig wrote:
:: Anon-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, Jim Burnes <jvb@ssds.com>, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
At 12:12 PM 9/11/98 -0700, Tim May wrote:
details about Clinton's cigar being inserted into Monica's vagina, about how Clinton talked with Congressional leaders while Monica was giving him a blowjob, and how Clinton suborned perjury and tampered with evidence....
There's a footnote that mentions oral-anal sex. Perhaps in DC this is a crime?
If kissing an asshole is a crime, they'd have to lock up the whole city. Besides, where else can you get caught on tape smoking crack with a hooker, and still get re-elected mayor?
At 11:55 AM 9/11/98 -0700, Martin Minow wrote:
From Jim Burns: Is there any effort underway to mirror the report to various archives? This is going to kill the DC internet corridor otherwise.
What I heard on the radio this morning was that the house will press CD's that will be distributed to mirror servers (presumably the major Internet news providers.)
Sigh. These folks don't understand the web technology (though I suppose sneakernetting CDs to Washington press corps may actually be the fastest way for some things, but the press corps and the press companies' webmasters aren't the same folks.) It'd be simpler for them to distribute the report, and similar high-popularity information in the future, using electronic distribution to the various press agencies and other high-volume web sites, as long as they coordinate it well. It might also make sense for them to have a "press-only" subnet for insiders and major caching proxy servers to get distributions from.
Now, the real interesting question: will the files be PGP-signed?
What? And make it hard to change them later? :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
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If its PDF then the delay is surely deliberately planned to favor those with scratchback access.
Well, considering that congress is still debating how much of the report (if any) will go public I doubt that there are any great backscratching conspiracies afoot. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: When DOS grows up it wants to be OS/2! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNflLn49Co1n+aLhhAQGZCgQAoObOqtvQhg7nJGz8ZtCtonLOkeI+4r3f HW+x90496EiIvLxJy4ChWZSIuuMrB3tmoOCneJmnReCpU9oN5mjmAA7ORFfjJmTc hbeAqQ/PDJdlz6nTWPoU3cRLAKFAXHdoIz+Lcr46T9ZXo7dcVSQ8q9xv0/VBnV0A visY22/Z6fw= =S9J9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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