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``` [I disagree with Declan about an awful lot, but fight-censorship was a major resource, so I assume that his new list will be valuable as well.]
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:14:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Declan McCullagh
It's official: fight-censorship-announce has retired for good.
Taking its place is "politech," a moderated mailing list devoted to the politics of technology and the Internet. What is the role of Washington, DC and other governments in a digital age?
The scope may be broader, but the types of messages you'll see here will be mostly the same. Excerpts from Netly News stories, speeches, wire reports, policy papers, and posts from other mailing lists.
Likely topics will include all sorts of regulation: privacy, censorship, copyright, domain names, encryption, anonymity, antitrust, and Internet governance. What the White House, Congress, and other governments are doing. And, of course, more on Microsoft and its legal battles.
It was time to retire the old list, which has been around in one form or another since 1994. The announce list originally focused exclusively on free speech, first on college campuses and then on the Communications Decency Act. But as the Internet exploded, so did government interest in regulating more than just online "indecency."
Please send me any news or announcements you think might be of interest to other politech readers. After all, the success of this list is largely due to the contributions of subscribers.
TECHNICAL NOTE: To file politech messages into a folder with Eudora or procmail, you should filter on the Sender: header. My filter matches all messages with "Sender: owner-politech@vorlon.mit.edu" in the headers.
HEADERS: I'll keep the old "FC:" header for a little while longer.
SUBSCRIPTIONS: As before, anyone can subscribe to this list. There is no charge. To join, email majordomo@vorlon.mit.edu with "subscribe politech" in the body of the message.
WEB SITE: Is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/
Best,
Declan
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