[Fwd: Announcement: Feburary Meeting]

[Kurt Starsinic <kstar@isinet.com>]

FYI,

    This looks like a fun lecture.  Anybody interested in caravanning
to Manhattan in February?

    Peace,
* Kurt Starsinic (kstar@isinet.com) ------------------ Technical Specialist *
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President@isoc-ny.org wrote:
> Date:  Feburary 8th
> Location: NYU
> 
>              Lessons from the Early MsgGroup Mailing List
>              as Principles for Future Internet Governance
> 
>                           Ronda Hauben
> 
>               co-author "Netizens: On the History and
>                 Impact of Usenet and the Internet"
>                 IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997
> 
>   This talk will look at one of the earliest mailing lists, MsgGroup,
> and describe the evolution of this mailing list. The talk will then
> discuss how a similar development is needed today to provide for
> the open discussion and debate of the problems of Internet growth
> and development. This is a crucial component of what is needed for
> an internationally shared means of Internet governance. When trying
> to understand how to scale the Internet, it is important that the
> history and evolution of the Internet be studied so that future
> developments will build on the lessons of the past.
> 
> Wayne Spivak
> President
> Internet Society Chapter of the Greater New York Metropolitan Area, Inc.
> (ISOC-NY)
> Contributing Editor - On The Internet
> Tel: 516-221-3306  Fax: 516-221-7129
> http://www.isoc-ny.org
> mailto:President@isoc-ny.org
> http://guide.sbanetweb.com/library.html --  Published Articles
> 
> For meeting info: mailto:meeting@isoc-ny.org

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