From: Declan McCullagh <declan@vorlon.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 03:14:49 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: More on Association for Interactive Media conference
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[This is the conference Tim was criticizing yesterday. --Declan]

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:49:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: FC: More on Association for Interactive Media conference

Netly articles on AIM:
  http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,1155,00.html
  http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,1464,00.html

-Declan

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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 10:24:20 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
To: declan@well.com, gnu@toad.com
Subject: Re: FC: Association for Interactive Media conference (DC, 2/98) 

[for forwarding if you like]

Note that AIM, the sponsors of the "WashingtonWeb" conference, are the
folks who appear to be paid stooges for Network Solutions in trying to
keep their ten million dollar per month monopoly on domain names.
AIM's coverage of that issue has been completely false and completely
biased ("The Internet is likely to break apart on October 15, 1997";
"you may lose all rights to use your trademark in your Internet
address forever".  See www.interactivehq.org/oic/).

They've been deliberately making false statements to stir up sentiment
against the evolution of domain names away from the Network Solutions
monopoly.

I wouldn't promote or attend their conference.  There's something going
on there that I don't understand -- but I do recognize slime when I see it.

	John Gilmore



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