At 12:08 AM 1/29/99 -0500, Jay Fenello wrote:
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>
>Hi Bill,
>
>To clarify, Mikki Barri wrote the piece
>you quoted.
Thanks for noting that. My right hand doesn't work as well as it should,
so I don't always get all the lines out. And I concur with the rest of what
you said as well. :-) And also, apologies to Mikki: Good stuff!
Bill
>
>More comments below . . .
>
>
>At 1/30/99, 11:57 PM, Bill Lovell wrote:
>>At 06:41 PM 1/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>>At 6:43 PM -0500 1/30/99, Bret A. Fausett wrote:
>>>
>>>Not all investments can be measured in money or commercialism. If the non
>>>commercial interests hadn't made the Internet such a desired venue for
>>>communiciation, and if governments, academic institutions, private, and
>>>commercial entities hadn't made committments to the medium, there would BE
>>>no e-commerce. Yet that fact is consistantly left out of proposals for
>>>constituencies. There is no provision for public interest, universal
>>>access interests, schools and universities, freedom of expression, and
>>>several other important constituencies that are left out of every proposal
>>>(although it has been talked about in the DNSO.org draft, although it is
>>>being shot down as "brought up too late" when in fact it has been brought
>>>up time and time again over the years).
>
>
>This really goes to the heart of this
>debate. What is a member, and how do
>they get represented. If there are to
>be constituencies, how will they be
>weighted, and how will they change
>over time.
>
>We still have a lot of work to do.
>
>Jay.
>
>
>>Can't speak to the latter point -- uh, maybe I'm a "clueless newbie!" --
>>but on the rest of it truer words were never spoken. In the several years
>>that I've been on the net, I've seen the amount of scientific research
>>available grow geometrically: I can research a topic in an hour now
>>that used to take me days. There is endless medical information
>>available as well -- diluted with tons of medical garbage such as the
>>latest urban legend that aspartame causes Alzheimer's because it
>>has formaldehyde in it -- but still useful if one looks carefully at the
>>entity that's doing the posting. The net got started for the purpose
>>of exchanging research information, and anything done to it that
>>would harm that fundamental advantage to a free society in any way
>>-- commercial interests be damned -- would represent a distinctly
>>counter-evolutionary trend. We all have a responsibility to protect
>>the true worth of the net -- and if any of our barely postpubescent
>>slam-bammers in this group think I'm being arrogant about that,
>>well, stuff it.
>>
>>Bill Lovell
>>>
>>
>>
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