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New Column Announcement: "Reality Reset"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum)
Thu Nov 2 03:49:45 2000
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:44:53 -0800 (PST)
From: PRIVACY Forum <privacy@vortex.com>
Message-Id: <200011020744.XAA23075@chrome.vortex.com>
To: PRIVACY-Forum-List@vortex.com
PRIVACY Forum Announcement
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November 1, 2000
Announcing: The "REALITY RESET" Column
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Greetings. I'm sending this message outside of the normal sequence of
PRIVACY Forum Digests, since it is somewhat off-topic, but still relates to
areas that have been under continuing discussion here in the PRIVACY Forum
itself.
As part of the continuing effort to provide materials that can help inform
and educate the broadest possible readership about issues of importance, I'm
pleased to announce the launching of "REALITY RESET" -- a new recurring
column which I hope will be of interest.
These short "Reality Reset" columns probably aren't what you might expect.
They rely on both humor and satire to focus mainly on a broad range of
issues relating to technology and society (many of which relate directly to
PFIR and the PRIVACY Forum), but may sometimes cover other topics as well.
I hope that this approach will serve to be both thought-provoking and
entertaining regarding these important issues, for readers of widely-varied
backgrounds and interests. The columns will never appear more frequently
than once per day, and will be considerably less frequent for now.
The initial column looks at the matter of Internet Control, as seen from the
supermarket checkout line. It's entitled:
"I Think ICANN, I Think ICANN"
This initial "Reality Reset" column can be previewed at the column
home page of:
http://www.vortex.com/reality
You can also subscribe to receive the columns automatically via e-mail by
sending the text:
subscribe
in the BODY of a message to:
reality-request@vortex.com
Naturally, e-mail addresses and names on the mailing list are private,
will only be used to distribute the columns, and won't be used
for any other purposes.
Your comments, questions, and any other feedback are of course invited.
Please feel free to forward or redistribute this message as you
deem appropriate.
Thanks very much. Be seeing you.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@pfir.org or lauren@vortex.com or lauren@privacyforum.org
Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
