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Words from the Web

by Marsha Woodbury

CPSR News Volume 15, Number 4: Fall 1997

We finally have a new web server and will soon be updating our web pages in grand style. As many of you know, I gathered a team of volunteers to handle various parts of our Web site, only to be stymied by a lack of access. For the last two years we have been gnawing at the bit, waiting to realize our plans. Now we are a breath away from having

• Search engines
• Web chat boards
• Secure money transfer
• All of our CPSR newsletters on line in digital, searchable format
• More Web pages on state, local, and international issues
• New design

CPSR tries to focus on "Hot Topics" at the top of our home page, http://www.cpsr.org. Right now the big issues are:

• One Planet, One Net, our Internet governance campaign
• Encryption and key recovery issues/updates from our CyberRights Working Group.
• Our support of the Golden Key Privacy campaign and the Blue Ribbon campaign.
• Star Wars, Down But Not Out.: updates by board member Carl Page on the SDI
• The Millennium Problem -- What will happen to computers when the date changes from 1999 to 2000?

We have FTP and gopher files as well as Web pages. Many times each week we get queries about Chris Hibbert's Social Security Number pages, for example. We need more such resources.

Also, we need more volunteers to put our past newsletters into HTML for the web. Please contact me if you are ready, willing, and able. My apologies to those who stepped forward earlier, as we did not give you the work or access that we promised. Now we have our server, and we should be on our way.

Thanks again for all your support!
Marsha
mwoodbury@cpsr.org
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~woodbury/

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