10-17-96. WaPo: "U.S. Considers Slugging It Out With International Terrorism" Officials contend that the main threat now comes from a murky network of home-grown, privately financed and largely independent groups forming a kind of international "terrorists' Internet." That network is proving extremely difficult for U.S. intelligence agencies to locate and penetrate. "Today's terrorists don't have to depend that much any more on states for access to financing or the technological means." "Postal Service Plans to Leave Its Mark on Electronic Mail" Cylink is developing a system for electronically postmarking and encrypting computer messages and Sun and Enterprise Productivity are developing software that will allow bulk mailers to calculate the price of mail shipments on the Internet. The Postal Service predicted that the new system ultimately will account for $5 billion in postage a year, about 9 percent of all postage. ----- http://jya.com/euphem.txt (18 kb for 2) ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/euphem.txt EUP_hem