1994 Digital Telephony Bill campaign
Shabbir J. Safdar
shabbir at panix.com
Wed Aug 24 20:06:35 PDT 1994
The Voters Telecomm Watch has officially taken a position against
the 1994 Digital Telephony Bill. It's not that we're slow, but it's
taken time to reach a consensus (and even reach the board members), to
compose all our materials, and gear up for the fight.
In opposing this bill, I hope to exceed our efforts of "watching"
with the Cantwell bill. If you followed that bill, you'll remember that
we attemtped to notify the Net community before every vote with
accurate information including sample letters, phone numbers,
bill histories, and legislator positions.
We had a few problems (legislators with changing addresses and
phone numbers, voice votes that leave no record that we could tie
to the legislator) but we also had many successes.
We'll be doing the same thing (even better, I hope) this time with
the Digital Telephony bill. We're going to try something new though.
This message will be sent to all the mailing lists we usually use
on our announce list. If you have access to news, check the following
newsgroups:
alt.activism
alt.conspiracy
alt.mag2600
alt.politics.datahighway
alt.politics.libertarian
alt.privacy.clipper
alt.wired
comp.org.cpsr.talk
comp.org.eff.talk
comp.risks
comp.society.cu-digest
comp.society.privacy
misc.activism.progressive
talk.politics.crypto
(Crossposting will be done carefully, so people with decent newsreaders
only see these alerts once)
I'll be forwarding this to the following mailing lists, who will be removed
from the vtw-announce at vtw.org mailing list:
cypherpunks at toad.com
eff-activists at eff.org
eff-crypto at eff.org
thesegroups at tic.com
nii_agenda at civicnet.org
com-priv at psi.com
risks at csl.sri.com
rre-maintainers at weber.ucsd.edu
cpsr-berkeley at cpsr.org
Please do not forward this announcement to the above lists, they have
already seen it. A number of people complained that the political
announcements we were sending were off topic for the lists during the
Cantwell campaign, so I hope this is a reasonable compromise.
If you do not have access to Usenet news, please feel free to subscribe
to the announce or the working lists at vtw-list-request at vtw.org.
-Shabbir
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