More on Neighbor Net for .WINE

On Mon, 18 May 1998, Jim Fleming wrote:

> @Jim is what one science fiction story termed an "agent provocateur" (where,
> @when the world is totally wired and everyone is on email, along comes a
> @person who talks the talk and walks the walk but is a bit demented and only
> @a few people can see thru his techno-mumbo-jumbo as being garbage).  His
> @purpose in life is to drum up controversy and to have people run off in
> @directions that are unproductive.  

It is my studied opinion that Jim Fleming is not demented, that he has a
specific goal in his provocateur activities and that he is likely being
paid to do this by the U.S. telco industry. His goal is to discredit the
Internet governance infrastructure in order to manipulate the U.S. 
government into creating an FCC-like regulatory infrastructure for the
Internet. The U.S. telcos (and indeed national PTTs the world over) like
this sort of structure because they know that, with it they can control
the Internet by the same sorts of political manoeuverings they have
perfected over the past several generations. 

So Hank is basically right that the best response is to take some time to
do more talking to government. However don't be misled by Jim's email spew
into thinking that a few emails to the right places will suffice. It is
far more effective to take the time to write a cogent discussion of the
issues and then snail-mail the document to the government agency. Or to
visit them in person for a face-to-face discussion.

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Michael Dillon                 -               Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Communications Inc.      -               E-mail: michael at memra.com
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