Newsgroups: alt.wired Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!spcuna!ritz!rcmaric From: rcmaric@ritz.mordor.com (R+C Mariconda) Subject: Alt.Wired FAQ Organization: Mordor International BBS Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 02:21:30 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: Lines: 863 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | ********************************* A L T.******************************* | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | WWWWWWWWWWWWWWW RRRRRRRRRRRRRR DDDDDDDDDDDDDD | | W WW WW W IIII RR RRR EEEEEEEE DD DDD | | WW WWW WWW WW IIII RRR RRRR RRR EE DDD DDDDD DD | | WWW W W WWW IIII RRR RRRRR EEEEEEE DDD DDDDD DD | | WWWW WWWW IIII RRR RRR RRRR EE DDD DDDDD DD | | WWWWW W WWWWW IIII RR RRR RRR EEEEEEEE DD DDD | | WWWWWWWWWWWWWWW RRRRRRRRRRRRRR DDDDDDDDDDDDDD | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | ********************************* F A Q ******************************* | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* *------------------- Last Modification ===> Oct. 1, 1994 -----------------* *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | | | Instructions to Randomly Access a Topic : | | *-------------------------------------* | | 1. 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Remember to include the brackets, | | or the search won't work properly. | | | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | TOPIC INDEX ********************************************************* | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* *-- BASICS ---------------------------* | [1] What is alt.wired? | | [2] What is WIRED magazine? | | [3] How do I subscribe to WIRED? | | [4] How do I get WIRED online? | | [5] How do I reach WIRED? | *-------------------------------------* *-- WORLD WIDE WEB ---------------------------------------* | [6] What is World Wide Web (WWW)? | | [7] Do I have to be directly on the net to use WWW? | | [8] Does WIRED maintain a Web site? | *---------------------------------------------------------* *-- TIRED THREADS |-O ZZZzzzzzz -----* | [9] Typography | *-------------------------------------* *-- MISCELLANEOUS ----------------------------------------* | [10] What is Clipper and why should I care about it? | | [11] What happened between WIRED and Women's Wire? | | [12] Why is my subscription delivery taking so long? | | [13] What is HotWIRED? | | [14] How do I contribute to the FAQ? | | [15] How do I get the most current FAQ version? | | [16] Monthly alt.wired FAQ Selected Tired/WiReD | | [17] Monthly alt.wired FAQ Selected Jargon Watch | *---------------------------------------------------------* *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | TOPICS ************************************************************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [1] What is alt.wired? ********************************************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* Alt.wired is a newsgroup for discussion about, and inspired by, WIRED Magazine. Appropriate topics include WIRED itself, articles/authors that appear in WIRED, and anything else you as a WIRED reader might want to talk about. Alt.wired was NOT created by WIRED magazine, and is NOT officially sponsored by WIRED magazine. *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [2] What is WIRED magazine? ***************************************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* Let the magazine speak for itself. From the premier issue (March 1993) : "The medium, or process, of our time--electric technology--is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. "Everything is changing..... you, your family, your neighborhood, your education, your job, your government, your relation to 'the others.' And they're changing dramatically." Marshall McLuhan, Patron Saint of Wired _The Medium is the Message_ 1967 Why Wired? Because the Digital Revolution is whipping through our lives like a Bengali typhoon--while the mainstream media is still groping for the snooze button. And because the computer "press" is too busy churning out the latest PCInfoComputingCorporateWorld iteration of its ad sales formula cum parts catalog to discuss the meaning or context of social changes so profound their only parallel is probably the discovery of fire. There are a lot of magazines about technology. _Wired_ is not one of them. Wired is about the most powerful people on the planet today-- the Digital Generation. These are the people who not only foresaw how the merger of computers, telecommunications and the media is trans- forming life at the cusp of the new millenium, they are making it happen. Our first instruction to our writers: Amaze us. Our second: We know a lot about digital technology, and we are bored with it. Tell us something we've never heard before, in a way we've never seen before. If it challenges our assumptions, so much the better. So why now? Why Wired? Because in the age of information over- load, the ultimate luxury is meaning and context. Or put another way, if you're looking for the soul of our new society in wild metamorphosis, our advice is simple. Get Wired. Louis Rossetto, Editor/Publisher of Wired *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [3] How do I subscribe to WIRED? ************************************ | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* E-Mail : subscriptions@wired.com Phone : (800) SO WIRED +1 (415) 904 0660 outside the US @-Mail : Mail check to : *--------------------------------* | WIRED | | PO Box 191826 | | San Francisco, CA 94119-9866 | *--------------------------------* Foreign subscriptions payable by credit card, postal money order in US$, or check drawn on a US bank. Individuals : $39.95 (12 issues), $71 (24 issues) Can/Mex US$64 (12 issues), $119 (24 issues) (GST incl) Foreign US$79 (12 issues), $149 (24 issues) Institutions : (libraries, companies larger than 20 employees, etc.) US$80 (12 issues), $143 (24 issues) Can/Mex US$103 (12 issues), $191 (24 issues) (GST incl) Foreign US$110 (12 issues), $210 (24 issues) *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [4] How do I get WIRED online? ************************************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* E-Mail: WIRED Info-rama (mail server) : send e-mail to info-rama@wired.com (automatic) include the following words in the message : get help get master.index (Note : "info-rama@wired.com" is NOT THE SAME AS "info@wired.com" (human) Info-rama Questions : infobeing@wired.com WIRED Online Department : online@wired.com Hotflash Mailing List : send e-mail to info-rama@wired.com include words "subscribe hotflash" in the message HotWIRED : HotWIRED Team : hotwired-info.@hotwired.com Internet Tools : Gopher : wired.com FTP : No ftp access (for security reasons) WWW : http://www.wired.com Home Page Online Service Providers : AOL: News and Finance, Internet Center areas keyword: WIRED OneNet : vendor forums select the "Wired Magazine icon" MindVox : CyberSpace Area, Wired Forum dial +1 (212) 989 4141 or telnet phantom.com type "read" in the Main Menu; then type "go wired" the WELL : Wired conference dial +1 (415) 332 6106 or telnet well.sf.ca.us type "g wired" *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [5] How do I reach WIRED? ******************************************* | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* E-mail : Subscription information : subscriptions@wired.com Rants & Raves : rants@wired.com Editorial guidelines : guidelines@wired.com Editorial correspondence : editor@wired.com Net Surf contributions : surf@wired.com Wired Ware (T-shirts, etc.) : ware@wired.com Advertising sales : advertising@wired.com General Questions : info@wired.com E-mail server : infodroid@wired.com Article submissions : submissions@wired.com Resumes/Intern applications : jobs@wired.com @-Mail : *--------------------------------* | WIRED | | 544 Second St. | | San Francisco, CA 94107-1427 | *--------------------------------* Other : +1 (415) 904 0660, FAX +1 (415) 904 0669 WIRED also maintains a presence in several online services such as AOL and the WELL. For more info see [4] *------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [6] What is World Wide Web (WWW)? ********************************** | *------------------------------------------------------------------------* >From WIRED 1.3: CERN, a European center for particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland, has developed an intriguing new tool for managing the cornucopia of information linked to the Internet. The World-Wide Web (W3), a global hypertext system, provides links between a phrase in one document and related information elsewhere. Unlike some hypertext, however, the links in W3 connect across the Net. Click on a phrase highlighted in a document called up from, say, a W3 server in Cambridge, Massachusetts and - zzzip - you get related information from another document in Tokyo. W3 evolved from tools created to help CERN physicists track the huge quantities of data generated by their experiments. By putting a link into a report on an experiment, a researcher could give his colleagues a quick and easy way of peeking at the underlying data, should they wish to do so. A link can also query an online database to generate a completely new document, containing the latest information. Today, W3 provides an eclectic collection of information, including a database of poetry, documents from Project Gutenberg (which is making classics of literature available in electronic form), computer algorithms from MIT, weather information, library catalogs, and a biochemical database. Usage has grown tenfold in the past year, and Tim Berners-Lee, who has been responsible for developing the system, expects that the pace of growth will accelerate as more and better software for accessing W3 becomes available. - John Browning (browning@well.sf.ca.us) (c) 1993 Wired magazine *------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [7] Do I have to be directly on the net to use WWW? **************** | *------------------------------------------------------------------------* Following is thanks to bbehlen@soda.berkeley.edu (Brian Behlendorf): OKay, here's the deal. To use NCSA Mosaic, you need to: 1) Be on a machine running X Windows, and if it's not a machine that NCSA has a bunch of precompiled binaries for (most major ones - DEC, AIX, Sun 4.1.3, Solaris, SGI, etc), you need the Motif libraries to compile it. OR 2) You need a Mac with MacTCP, which means either a Mac already on "the net", or you need to get a SLIP account from Netcom or elsewhere and install that on your Mac OR 3) Windows, with winsock.dll installed (Netware LAN's, for example. I think you can use this with a SLIP account too.) If you don't have access to the above, you can use Lynx, which is a curses-based client you can run on just about anything, with all the hypertext features like following hyperlinks and such, but no nice formatting or images available. If it's not on your system (netcom users try the command "www") gopher may work to some of the same sites (such as wired.com) but it won't have the hypertext capabilities (although that should be in a forthcoming version of gopher). *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [8] Does WIRED maintain a Web site? ********************************* | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* Yes, it is now open. *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [9] Tired Thread: Typography **************************************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* This one has been hashed out several times since alt.wired's conception. Here is the argument in a nutshell: xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxxxx.xxx (xxxxx x xxxxxx) writes: I have this sneaking suspicion that Wired is designed specifically for those who have LOST the ability to read normally formatted text, due to attention span erosion from excessive remote-zapping and window- changing, and require something to jump down, turn around, change colors and juggle knives for them to be able to stick with it long enough to benefit from the experience. Perhaps the world will not be divided into information haves and have-nots but into those who are capable of reading the New York Times and those who are capable of reading Wired (two mutually exclusive segments of the population). To which xxxx@xx.xxxxxxxx.xxx (xxx xxxxxxxxxxx) replies: I read Wired, I read lots of Usenet articles, I read plain old novels, and I read newspapers. I occasionally watch television and I sit through longwinded time consuming movies. Wired isn't even close to being radical in the design space of information delivery. I clearly have no problem (and I believe most other people as well) dealing with all of these forms. The world will probably be divided between those people who incorporate new forms of delivery into their daily use and those who constantly grouse about, "Kids these days!" and how wonderful the New York Times is. Also putting the whole thing rather eloquently is xxxxx@xxx.xxxx (xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) who writes: Can we make the whole typesetting discussion a FAWOMFT (Frequently Argued Waste Of My Time) and not have it take up so much bandwidth? Geez. Either you like Wired's typesetting and think it's cool or it hurts your eyes. In the first case, that's nice, now shut up. In the second case, waaaaa, now shut up. Next thread, please? ;-P PLEASE DO NOT SIMPLY REHASH THE OBVIOUS ON THE NET. If you have something new to say, go ahead and post. If you merely want to add your voice in support or dissent, you are better off writing directly to WIRED. Send something to rants@wired.com. There are WIRED people on alt.wired, but they don't have time to read everything, and you can guess that they skip right over this thread by now. *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [10] What is Clipper and why should I care about it? **************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* First, here is information on the official WIRED magazine Clipper Archive (supplied by Julie Petersen at WIRED): The WIRED Online Clipper Archive features crucial essays written for WIRED by John Perry Barlow and Brock N. Meeks. If you do nothing else, read these stories. You can have them sent to you immediately by electronic mail by copying the following three lines into the body of an electronic mail message addressed to infodroid@wired.com : send clipper/privacy.meeks send clipper/privacy.barlow end The WIRED Online Clipper Archive also includes re-posted comments from Jerry Berman (of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)) and Dorothy Denning (encryption expert and Clipper proponent), a copy of the EFF's _EFFector Online_ newsletter documenting the Clipper controversy, and an electronic anti-Clipper petition circulated by the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). We have also set up links to other valuable sources of information on Clipper, including those maintained by the EFF and CPSR. You can access our archive via the following WIRED Online services: o WIRED Info-rama E-mail to info-rama@wired.com, containing the words "send clipper/index" on a single line inside the message body o WIRED Gopher gopher to gopher.wired.com select "Clipper Archive" o WIRED on World Wide Web http://www.wired.com select "Clipper Archive" o WIRED on America Online keyword: WIRED o WIRED on the WELL type "go wired" from any "OK" prompt type "clipper" to access the menu Second, here is a Clipper-FAQ put together by David Chaos specifically for the alt.wired FAQ. It does a good job of anticipating and answering most questions you might have. David's point of view is decidedly anti-Clipper. If you read this and disagree, I am perfectly willing to include a pro-Clipper point of view in the next edition of the FAQ. DAVID CHAOS' CLIPPER-FAQ : *----------------------* 1) What is the Clipper chip? Clipper is an intergrated circuit (a "chip") which can be placed in telephones, cellular phones and other telecommunication devices. It was "designed" by NSA (National Security Agency) to provide "secure encryption for business and the public-at-large. Its stated purpose is to prevent eavesdropping by foreign interests which may reveal "industrial" secrets. 2) Why is the "Clipper" chip controversial? The Clipper chip contains several "features" which are controversial. The NSA designed the chip with two (known) so-called "backdoors". The first is a scheme whereby NSA can access *any* communications encoded by Clipper. They have the "keys" which allow them to intercept and decode, at will, any Clipper encoded messages. There is no known provision to prevent this access. The second scheme is a thing called "key-escrow". Key-escrow is designed to provide access by law enforcement agencies to Clipper encrypted data. Both of these schemes are strongly objected to by many civil-liberties, computer, corporate and private groups. 3) Why is direct NSA access to Clipper encrypted data objected to? The NSA is not bound, legally or otherwise, to obtain permission (warrants etc.) for access to Clipper encoded communications. Their charter allows them to eavesdrop on any "International" communications without fear of legal reprisal. The "Internet", Long-distance phone providers, the "NII" etc. all have "International" links. Therefore, any data traveling over these systems is subject to interception, without any sort of oversight. The NSA's budget is "secret" and no one on the outside of that agency truly knows its economic resources. However, it is presumed by many educated and government "experienced" folks that the NSA likely has one of the largest computer/data processing systems in the world. It would be a logistically reasonable presumption that they could easily monitor the "NII" datastream and extract Clipper encrypted character sequences. For example their machines may be asked to record all instances of the words "government" and "Clipper" and "disagree" to track suspected instances where citizens may disagree with Clipper. They then could verify an electronic "address" and intercept all communications to and from that source. 4) Why is "Key-escrow" objected to, it is only for "legally ordered" police intercepts? Key-escrow, while being presented as requiring a legal wiretap order before the keys are released, has several "loopholes" and vague statements as to how this is to be enforced. Additionally, it appears from the current language on the key-escrow policy, that "illegal interception" of encrypted data *does not* prevent its admission into evidence, therefore relieving law enforcement of the obligation to present only lawfully obtained evidence. This is counter to every legal precedent of court admissable evidence since the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine was accepted generally (further legal description and interpretation of this, I refer to the lawyers). Simply stated, the police have no reason not to gather evidence illegally under the proposed policy. 5) Is Clipper the only proposed "key-escrow" scheme? No. Several more devices and algorithms have been described. Names such as Tessera, Skipjack, Capstone all are related to this "key-escrow" concept. Some are the algorithms and/or procedures others are actual devices (Tessera). When people speak of the "Clipper controversy" they often include all of the above as being part of the whole "key-escrow" proposal. No matter what name is given "key-escrowed" encryption, they all appear to contain the elements which are strongly objected to. 6) Are those objecting to "key-escrowed" encryption just a small "lunatic fringe" or is there "regular" people objecting to it? It seems that opposition to "key-escrow" encryption crosses political and organizational lines. Following "anti-Clipper" threads in usenet, one finds liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and "regular" folks, all voicing objections to "Clipper" and "key-escrow". 7) What organizations actively support the "anti-Clipper" people? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and numerous others such as SEA, ACLU etc. are engaged in various aspects of the "anti-Clipper" campaign. Most of these organizations maintain extensive databases on on key-escrow/Clipper issues. Most welcome access to these files by anyone interested (see end of this FAQ for some addresses). 8) Does the Clinton administration support "Clipper" and "Key-escrow"? Yes. While they likely did not originate the concept, they actively and loudly support its implementation. 9) Since I don't engage in criminal or terrorist acts, why should I care if the government spies on these people, I have nothing to hide? Because one does not have to be a criminal or a terrorist to send messages which are intended to be private. Do you want your medical records, your buying habits, your foreign "penpals", your credit history, your "sexual" practices, your bank accounts etc., all accessible to the government without a warrant? One does not have to be a criminal to want ones "private" email private. Once the "Clipper" system is in place, George Orwell's vision of 1984 becomes a reality, even if he got the date wrong. 10) I was told that the government does not "intend" to outlaw private use of commercial encryption, can't I use this to avoid Clipper? Can't the criminals and terrorists use it also? The government said that it does not have any intention, at this time, to outlaw private non-Clipper encryption. Of course, in order for the Clipper et al scheme to work, it must not be defeated by private encryption. Terrorists and criminals will not likely use a system they know is easily monitored. Then who is this "key-escrow" capability for? Simply, they have one of two choices, either they make non-Clipper encryption illegal or they eliminate all viable non-Clipper encryption by other means. Such means might enclude a prohibition on use of non-Clipper encryption on "federal networks" (the NII) or they can suppress all commercial encryption products by making them unprofitable and "non-standard". See the EFF archives on the details of how the government admits to trying to supress non-Clipper encryption. Clipper is being put forth as a "voluntary" standard. However, there are several mechanisms in place to make its use required. Such things as requiring it in all government contractors communications and prohibitions on export of non-Clipper encryption software/hardware. Again see the EFF archives for more on this (under ITAR) 11) If Clipper and its siblings are defeated, won't "National Security" suffer? No. There are numerous other methods for collecting data on foreign spies, terrorists and criminals. These require "specific targets" and not the "shotgun" approach available via Clipper. Such things as building bugging, laser voice receivers (bounced of off glass windows), informants and traffic monitoring are all effective means. There are many other non-Clipper techniques which allow for "black bag" operations without the need to intercept citizens. Clipper et al, are simply a means to accomplish massive and cheap monitoring without the hinderance of legal "oversight". Clipper threatens "national security" by allowing the development of a "Big Brother" government, unanswerable to the people it supposedly represents. 12) What possible reasons for support are given by the "Pro-Clipper" forces? Generally, they present the position that the government *can* be trusted not to misuse Clipper et al, not to outlaw non-Clipper encryption and to always have the "peoples" best interests at heart. Soome maintain that "Clipper" is an NSA "quality" encryption capability given to protect ordinary citizens and business in their "private" communications. Most of their postions are based on a great deal of "good faith" by the government. This is the same government who brought us Vietnam, Radioactive "vitamins" secretly given to pregnant women, Oliver North, Watergate, "WhiteWatergate", the "middle-class tax-cut", Waco, Texas etc.. These are the same people who guarantee us that Clipper will not be used improperly. -Dr. David Chaos (DCHAOS@delphi.com) New developments on the Hill : In Vice President Gore's July 20, 1994 letter to Rep. Maria Cantwell, he basically states that Clipper will be limited to standard telephone voice communications. There will be some studies done to reassess existing export controls. But Gore also mentions the future development -- by government, industry representatives, and privacy advocates -- of a key escrow encryption system that will "provide strong encryption, be acceptable to computer users worldwide, and address our national needs as well." Wired 2.09 has a small article that cites Matt Blaze, a young AT&T Bell Labs research worker, who found a design flaw in Clipper that was a minor factor in decisions leading to the administration's adjustment of policy. Here are some contrasting reactions : "We are working with industry to develop the same capability for data networks that Clipper provides for voice networks. I would hardly call that backing away." o Attorney General Janet Reno at July 22, 1994 press conference "The letter makes clear to me that the Administration continues to embrace key escrow encryption technology, and stands behind Clipper Chip as a federal standard for telephone communications. The official standard makes clear that this standard applies to any communications over telephone lines. Those communications include not ony voice, but also low-speed computer data and facsimile messages." o Senator Patrick Leahy at July 21, 1994 press conference "I think it would be a good idea to wait a few weeks or a month until we see what the *actual* government position really is, and not EFF's opinion of it. I have seen waffling and flip-flops from this administration and would rather not respond to them until we have a more definitive position." o Dr. David Choas (DCHAOS@delphi.com), who will give us his authoritative position here, when the dust settles. *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [11] What happened between WIRED and Women's Wire? ****************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* This controversy has come up a couple of times, usually resulting from someone getting SOME of the facts and jumping to conclusions. One key to this whole thing is that United States trademark law *requires* a company to defend its trademark. If a company neglects to defend its trademark it is forfeited. With that in mind, here is the joint statement issued by WIRED and Woman's Wire when the whole thing went down: 5 January 1994 On October 5, 1993, WIRED, a startup magazine and electronic publishing company, notified WIRE, a startup service which offers an easy-to-use online product especially (but not exclusively) for and about women, that they felt that the use of the name WIRE was confusing and infringed on WIRED's trademark. After a series of negotiations, part of which dealt with the issue of whether WIRED's trademark covered Internet domain names (such as wire.net), the management of WIRE has decided to rename their company, service and net site. As of January 6, 1994, this service will be called Women's Wire, and located on the net at wwire.net. WIRED has agreed to help defray some of the printing costs of changing Women's Wire's name on their stationary, manuals, brochures, etc. This dispute has been disruptive and personally taxing on both parties, and both are relieved to have this settled. We wish to put this energy- and resource-draining episode behind us. At the same time we acknowledge that the contentious issue of trademarks in net domain names will not be left behind. We support further public discussion of this and related intellectual property issues on the electronic frontier. WIRED Women's Wire *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [12] Why is my subscription delivery taking so long? **************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* There have been a number of complaints on alt.wired about subscriptions taking too long to be delivered. Some people have seen the new issue out on the newstands before their subscription arrives, and have not hesitated to complain. In response to these complaints, Brian Behlendorf from WIRED posted this: From: Brian Behlendorf Subject: Subscription Problems - explained Date: 23 Feb 1994 11:07:41 GMT I know there have been many complaints about WIRED's distribution. I've talked with a couple of people inside the subscriptions department, and here is some information. 1) There are different classes of US Mail distribution - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class, among others. 2nd class mail is what most magazines and print use - this dates back to laws on the books supposedly to support freedom of press. However, to be able to send 2nd class mail a magazine or publication must be approved by the Postal Office as a legitimite 2nd Class publication, and WIRED is in the middle of that approval process now. What this means is that currently, WIRED magazine is sent out as third class mail when shipped in bulk, which can take weeks to get to their final destination. One thing that the Postal Office requires in order to qualify a magazine as needing 2nd Class registration are letters from irate customers complaining about how long it takes for issues to arrive. I am not kidding. If it is arriving late for you, send mail to subscriptions@wired.com and complain! You could be helping us! 2) Our distributors know the marketability of WIRED is very high, and thus many put it out for sale before the street date, sometimes weeks in advance. We are trying to track down places that do this, and I'd ask for help but I'm sure no one wants to bust a place that gets them their WIRED early :) So anyways, this should explain some of the various inconsistancies you see in delivery. When we get 2nd Class certification expect a drastic improvement in delivery time. I know this doesn't explain everything, but I hope some of you find this information useful. *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [13] What is HotWIRED? ********************************************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* From HotFlash 1.23 : ************* What is HotWired? If you read WIRED and saw our advertisements, you know that HotWired is "New Thinking for a New Medium." HotWired is a cyberstation, a unique, original location on the Internet reachable through the World Wide Web. HotWired will extend and expand the ongoing editorial mission of our sister publication, WIRED. HotWired is live and twitching, the real-time nervous system of the planet. It will focus on the Digital Revolution and the Second Renaissance, and it will integrate its content with a community space where users can interact with our staff, our contributors, and each other. HotWired is not WIRED magazine content with another name (WIRED works perfectly well in print, thank you). It's not a so-called online magazine (print content reduced to ASCII and shoveled into another medium, narrowband interactive). It's not video-on-demand (a pie-in-the-sky marketing concept created by out-of-touch old-media executives to justify their headlong rush into broadband interactive, a new medium they don't understand). It's not an online service like Prodigy or AOL (now rendered obsolete by the explosion of interest in the Internet and the development of the Web and graphical browsers). Like WIRED before it, HotWired is not a cold, marketing concept, but a heartfelt expression of the passion of its creators and its community -- this community. (c)Copyright 1994, Wired Ventures Ltd. *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [14] How do I contribute to the FAQ? ******************************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* 1. If there is something that needs to be corrected, please let me know! 2. If you think something should be added or changed, please let me know! 3. If you would like to contribute anything to the FAQ file, please [etc.] Just send mail to me at either of my addresses specified in my .sig : CURRENT alt.wired FAQ Keeper/Maintainer : ^^^^^^^ *-- C. Mariconda ----------------------------* | rcmaric@ritz.mordor.com | | greenej@WELL.sf.ca.us "WELLWiReD" | | "It's The End Of The World As We Know It | | And I Feel Fine" --> R.E.M. | *--------------------------------------------* FYI, the FORMER alt.wired FAQ Keeper/Maintainer (until mid-July 1994) was : ================================================================= Jim Petersen/LANlord jimp@wired.com Wired Magazine chinacat@netcom.com ================================================================= *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [15] How do I get the most current FAQ version? | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* If you need the current FAQ because you missed its posting, send a request to either of my email address mentioned in [14]. Soon I will give information on how to FTP for it. *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [16] Monthly alt.wired FAQ Selected Tired/WiReD ********************* | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* *----- T I R E D -----* *----- W i R e D -----* *--------- Author --------* Per Minute/Hour usage No usage rates Erick Bergquist rates (haha) bergquis@cs.uwp.edu Of people talking JUST DO IT Erick Bergquist about something... bergquis@cs.uwp.edu yet never do it. War World Peace Dave A. Lartigue lartigue@prairienet.org Hell Ice Water Dave A. Lartigue lartigue@prairienet.org Doom d.i.y. petrol air bombs Dean Perry deanp@zikzak.apana.org.au 500 channels 1 customizable channel WaltR Waltr@deathstar.cris.com 1 customizable channel Multiple on-screen Joel Nye Realities with dynamic ae781@yfn.ysu.edu conference-links In/Out binarification Heterogeneity Felix Salmon 100344.3141@CompuServe.COM Paperless office Origami Matthew Lynch@ f113.n2613.z1.fidonet.org MAKE.MONEY.FAST Entrepeneurs Matthew Lynch@ f113.n2613.z1.fidonet.org Paperless office Toilet Paper Mike Silverman msilver@nyx10.cs.du.edu Political Technological Jason Varmazis Correctness Correctness jjv@bnr.ca Television for Television *by* Sheppard the masses the mass sheppard@cat.ustanne.ns.ca Dinosaurs Comets Charles Barilleaux cbarilleaux@delphi.com Upgrading OVERCLOCKING as much Albert Yale as you possibly can! :) matrix@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca Netsurfing Being an infotective... 7 Seas Software 7seas@olympus.net "A net-junkies evolution :" Tom Dolan Tom@tomd.demon.co.uk 1. Home Cooking Take-away Fast Food 2. Fast Food Pizza Delivery 3. Pizza Delivery The chocolate machine outside the terminal room 4. The chocolate More Coke machine outside the terminal room 5. More Coke More Coke, after just one more newsgroup 6. More Coke, after "What do you mean I haven't just one more eaten for three days?" newgroup Artificial Intelligence Artificial Life James McParlane james@sysx.apana.org.au Artificial Natural Albert Yale matrix@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca e-mail live phone call Harris B. Taback homefrie@well.sf.ca.us *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* | [17] Monthly alt.wired FAQ Selected Jargon Watch ******************** | *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* *------------------- Jargon ------------------* *-------- Author ---------* com - (verb) an all encompassing Chick Daniel R form of communication 3drc3@qlink including personal interaction, phone, fax, email, on-line chat. "Com to ya later..." Render Wander - Wandering around the building Kevin Marks chatting to people while the Kevin@mmc1.demon.co.uk progress bar of AfterEffects/ Premiere/Infini-D etc. makes its ponderous journey across the screen. Rip Trip - Wandering around chatting to Chris Mcdonough people while your waiting for mcdonoug@elvis.rowan.edu the RIP to get finished.