RE: [DDN] Net Neutrality and AOL ...It Begins

2006-04-20 Thread Charlie Meisch
"The problem is that most people don't know about it and assume Email offers some form of guarantee of delivery. In it's current form, it does not." Interesting notion - snail mail offers the same lack of guarantee. When I check my physical mailbox, I employ my own form of SPAM filtering - m

[DDN] Community Connect Grant Program

2006-04-20 Thread Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 10.863 Program web site http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/E6-3575.htm Sponsor USDA Rural Utilities Service Deadlines May 15, 2006 Purpose The purpose of the Community Connect Grant Program

RE: [DDN] Net Neutrality and AOL ...It Begins

2006-04-20 Thread Ed Ward
> > I administer a mail gateway processing upwards of 7,000 messages per > > day, and unabashedly can confirm we trash more than 4,000 of these > > per day unread and without providing notifications as to why. This > > is common practice throughout Government, corporate's and business, > > the a

[DDN] NCSI NET Meeting

2006-04-20 Thread Ravi Nandhan
Reminder: - Note: All those who are interested to attend the talk are welcome, as there were enquiries if it is meant only for IISc or NCSIians. The next NCSI-NET meeting will be held on Saturday, April 22nd 2006. As usual, the meeting will commence with a talk. You are cordially invited for the

RE: [DDN] The Word that Will Get Your Blog Censored by Texas SchoolsDistricts

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Maranda
Maybe it has to do with the self-description: "waste of bandwidth"? Sorry! I know this is a serious issue. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:50 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion grou

[DDN] QOTD: Who Owns the Internet? Prospects for Curriculum Integration

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Maranda
CTCs and other efforts intended in some way to Bridge the Digital Divide are naturally the first taste of the Internet for many people around the world. We show them how to use tools involving the Internet: WWW. email.. blogging, podcasting, VoIP and more. We may entice them to further and deep

RE: [DDN] Net Neutrality and AOL ...It Begins

2006-04-20 Thread Don Cameron
Norbert writes: > Can anyone suggest a good quotable reference for the fact that > this kind of thing is common practice? Norbert unfortunately information in this area isn't so easily forthcoming because of security and proprietary concerns - Organisations that filter email content tend not to a

Re: [DDN] Creating a samizdat bloggers network using SMS text messaging

2006-04-20 Thread Taran Rampersad
Congratulations, Andy, you recreated something similar to the basic Alert Retrieval Cache with off the shelf tools. Andy Carvin wrote: Hi everyone, Given all the discussions surrounding educational blogs that have been blocked capriciously by Internet filters, I started thinked about what it

[DDN] Creating a samizdat bloggers network using SMS text messaging

2006-04-20 Thread Andy Carvin
Hi everyone, Given all the discussions surrounding educational blogs that have been blocked capriciously by Internet filters, I started thinked about what it would take to create the online equivalent of a "samizdat" network, similar to the system used by Soviet dissidents to disseminate banne