The following files have been added to the Cyber-Rights library: -- The ACLU Alert with the statement on Wiesenthal has been filed as: "Re-Legislation/ACLU-Alert-960113" -- The Privacy International announcement of the Big Brother Paper has been filed as: "Announcements/PI-Announce-Big-Brother-Paper" -- A GovAccess essay on online presidental debates has also been added. It has been filed as: "Essays/GovAccess-Pres-Debates-Online" An extract follows: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ <...> Happy Solstice. It's [almost] 1996 - election year. Let's get to work - on becoming *informed* participants in the process of our own governance. This GovAccess initiates a new GovAccess thread -- "prexy" -- concerned with an effort to initiate and conduct *modern* presidential debates (i.e., on the record, *online*) by those who propose to lead us into the 21st Century. This outlines the proposal. Future GovAccess.2xx.prexy issues will give updates, progress reports and further details -- such as the phone and fax numbers of the major presidential candidates' campaign managers. Pushing together, WE can make this happen. Let's do it! CONTENTS It's Time for Online Debates by Prexy Candidates - YOU Can Help Make It Happen Usenet Newsgroups - The Public's Largest, Nonproprietary, Nonprofit Free Forums [A hyperbrief tutorial for those not already familiar with Usenet] Getting Usenet Newsgroups by Email - for the Net-Impaired For More Details About Usenet [Lest we repeat the past] Legislating Ignorance - Making 'pi' = 3.2, by Law &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& It's Time for Online Debates by Prexy Candidates - YOU Can Help Make It Happen [This is appearing as my January " futures" column in MicroTimes, a computer periodical with ~230,000 monthly circulation. My January "Government Access" column in BoardWatch addresses the same topic, circulation ~100,000. <...> -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The Cyber-Rights Library archives documents and informational postings relevant to our campaign. It is accessible via FTP or WWW at: ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/archive/ http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/archive/ The Cyber-Rights Web page is located at: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -H