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Contents of the most recent issue -- TBTF for 2000-07-20: Many fathers

A perfect privacy storm -- Advertising industry is warned to shore up its house Regulatory foolishness abroad -- France: unintended consequences; Australia: streaming content = broadcasting?; Germany: taxing Internet use at work Spam fighters duke it out -- Reasonable men may disagree MAPS RBL finally gets sued -- Fighting spam and dangling lawyer-bait NSI holding overdue names to ransom -- Is this what ICANN means by "not unreasonably restraining competition?"

Poking at Echelon -- French pot to examine Anglo-American kettle What if smart people wrote computer viruses? -- Now that's a virus Take It Offline evolves into Quick Topic -- Lots more features and still preposterously easy The View from Softpro -- Forget the hype, this is where it's really at The CARROT and the STIC -- When good personalized marketers get desperate Many fathers -- Someone else who invented (part of) the Internet

 

Highlights of previous issues

A perfect privacy storm. Spam fighters duke it out Poking at Echelon. What if smart people wrote computer viruses? Domain naming as speech -- exploiting Elian. Adbots and spyware. That dang paperclip. Amazon.com poisons the well. Cyber Patrol CPhackers get sued and settle on Internet time. Process Tree Network: monetarized distributed computing. Privacy boils over: DoubleClick flip-flops. TBTF book review: Database Nation. Playing keep-away with scrambled files. Snow screeching on water. Did eToys pay in market cap for bullying etoy? Backflip and the limitations of privacy policies. OpenSRS to blow open domain-name competition. The straight dope on the DVD encryption crack. Introducing t byfield's roving_reporter. TBTF book review: High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson. Transmeta aims squarely at Intel. Enhancing online discussion with Take It Offline. Think Open Source guarantees you can know what a program does? Think again. Sorting out the Microsoft NSAkey flap. Careful, the smart dust might be watching. A wake-up call to PR flaks everywhere. How can I crack thee? Let me count the ways. Jargon Scout: blogging a vortal. Aibo rampant on a field azure. DoJ wants more black-bag jobs. Court to AOL: you've got bupkus. Debunking a new urban legend: chemtrails The AOL / Microsoft food fight -- a pox on both their houses. First shot fired in a price war for domain names. Judging now much to worry about near-earth objects.
 

Highlights from H1 1999, H2 1998, H1 1998, 1997, 1996, and 1995

TBTF features

• Siliconia — the essential list of Silicon Whatever appelations around the world. Siliconia was named to The Tech 10 for March 1997 by the Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley.

• Jargon Scout — advance warning of jargon that is just about ready to hatch into the Net's language.

• 1998-09-11 The Congressional Hypocrites page names the names of the 285 most hypocritical US Representatives on the subject of the Internet.     Updated for the 106^th Congress.
   
• 1998-02-02 The TBTF Guide to Non-US Domain Name Registries — some of the first places that allowed anyone to register a second-level domain name, before competition for Network Solutions, Inc. began.

 

FAQ and details

• 1999-01-15 Here are the answers to frequently asked questions about the newsletter, as well as a guide to some of the site's production and policy details.

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