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Greetings! Welcome to the global Internet PRIVACY Forum.
>>> What is the Internet PRIVACY Forum? <<<
The PRIVACY Forum is a moderated digest for the discussion and analysis of
issues relating to the general topic of privacy (both personal and
collective) in the "information age" of the 1990's and beyond. Topics
include a wide range of telecommunications, information/database collection
and sharing, and related issues, as pertains to the privacy concerns of
individuals, groups, businesses, government, and society at large. The
manners in which both the legitimate and the controversial concerns of
business and government interact with privacy considerations are also topics
for the digest. The PRIVACY Forum digest is supported in part by the ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery) Committee on Computers and Public
Policy.
Except when unusual events warrant exceptions, digest publication is
limited to no more than one or two reasonably-sized digests per week. Given
the size of the Internet, this may often necessitate that only a small
percentage of overall submissions may ultimately be presented in the digest.
Submission volume also makes it impossible for unpublished submissions to be
routinely acknowledged. Other mailing lists, with less stringent submission
policies, may be more appropriate for readers who prefer a higher volume of
messages regarding these issues.
The goal of PRIVACY Forum is to present a high quality electronic
publication which can act as a significant resource to both individuals and
organizations who are interested in these issues. The digest is best viewed
as similar in focus to a journal or other specialized publication. The
moderator will choose submissions for inclusion based on their relevance and
content.
The PRIVACY Forum is moderated by Lauren Weinstein of Vortex Technology
(lauren@vortex.com), in Topanga, California, U.S.A. He has been active
regarding a wide range of issues involving technology and society in the
ARPANET/Internet community since the early 1970's. The Forum also has an
"advisory committee" consisting of three individuals who have offered to act
as a "sounding board" to help with any questions of policy which might arise
in the course of the Forum's operations. These persons are Peter Neumann of
SRI International (the moderator of the excellent and renowned Internet
RISKS Forum digest), Marc Rotenburg of Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility (a most clear and articulate spokesman for sanity in
technology), and Willis Ware of RAND (one of the U.S.A.'s most distinguished
champions of privacy issues).
The names and e-mail addresses of subscribers to the PRIVACY Forum
mailing list are private (naturally).
For information regarding the availability of the PRIVACY Forum
digest via FAX, please send an inquiry to privacy-fax@vortex.com,
call (310) 455-9300, or FAX to (310) 455-2364.
Following is information regarding operational procedures for the
PRIVACY Forum.
How to submit items to the PRIVACY Forum
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Messages being submitted for possible inclusion in the PRIVACY Forum digest
should be mailed to the Internet address:
privacy@vortex.com
All messages sent to privacy@vortex.com which are not obviously only
meant for the moderator or are not marked for non-publication will be
assumed to be submitted for the digest.
How to subscribe/unsubscribe to/from PRIVACY Forum
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Individual subscriptions for the PRIVACY Forum are controlled through an
automated list server ("listserv") system.
To subscribe, send a message to:
privacy-request@vortex.com
or:
listserv@vortex.com
with a line in the BODY of the message of the form:
subscribe privacy <your full name>
where <your full name> is your actual name, not your e-mail address (your
e-mail address is determined automatically by listserv). Also please note
that the subscribe command must be in the BODY of your message, not in the
"Subject:" field; the "Subject:" field of all messages to listserv is
ignored.
Example:
subscribe privacy Dr. Sidney Schaefer
Please note that the "subscribe" command is used to create your own
individual subscription to the PRIVACY Forum mailing list. Site managers
who wish to establish site-wide local redistribution mailing lists for PRIVACY
Forum should contact a human at:
list-maint@vortex.com
and provide the requested local redistribution mailing list address and any
other details. Individuals who wish to subscribe directly to PRIVACY Forum
(not to a local redistribution mailing list) should *not* contact
"list-maint@vortex.com" unless they are having problems with the
automatic listserv "subscribe" command.
To unsubscribe from the PRIVACY Forum mailing list, follow the same
procedure as above for individual subscriptions, but send the command:
unsubscribe privacy
in the BODY of your message instead of the "subscribe" command. Once again,
this only applies to individual subscriptions, other unsubscription requests
(e.g. to remove local redistribution mailing lists from the PRIVACY Forum
master list) should be done by sending the address you want to unsubscribe
to a human at:
list-maint@vortex.com
To remove yourself from a local redistribution mailing list, please
contact your appropriate local mailing list manager.
Access to Archival Materials
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>> FTP <<
The PRIVACY Forum archive, including all issues of the digest and all
related materials, is available via anonymous FTP from site
"ftp.vortex.com", in the "/privacy" directory. Use the FTP login "ftp" or
"anonymous", and enter your e-mail address as the password. The typical
"README" and "INDEX" files are available to guide you through the
files available for FTP access.
>> E-MAIL/LISTSERV <<
All of the PRIVACY Forum materials are also available by e-mail via the
listserv system. To receive an index of available materials, follow the
same command procedure described earlier for listserv requests, but send the
command:
index privacy
in the BODY of your message.
To retrieve a particular item from the archive, send the command:
get privacy <file>
in the BODY of your message, where <file> is replaced by the name
of the particular item of interest.
For example, to retrieve the first PRIVACY Forum digest:
get privacy priv.01.01
Please note that only the first command in any message you send to
the listserv system will be processed. Any subsequent commands
in a single message will be ignored.
For more information regarding the listserv system, follow the same command
procedure described above, but send the command:
help
in the BODY of your message.
>> GOPHER <<
All PRIVACY Forum materials can also be obtained through the Internet Gopher
system via a gopher server on site "gopher.vortex.com".
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Once again, welcome to the PRIVACY Forum!
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