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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Ronda Hauben <ronda@UMCC.UMCC.UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: history of acceptable use policies
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>This is somewhat anachronistic; but I recall a serious flap circa 1967, about students using the ARPANET to circulate anti-(VN)war propaganda. DARPA had to send out a notice that the whole system was put in jeopardy by such uses; we all understood how unenforceable that was.
This is strange since the mailing list which I think was called arms-d was about the horrors of nuclear war and the debate over what the various folks on the list thought would be a way to solve the problem.
I write about this in one of the draft papers I did about ARPANET mailing lists and early Usenet newsgroups. The paper is in the usenet.hist directory at
http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~ronda/usenet.hist/public_sphere_use.txt
Ronda
ronda@umcc.umich.edu
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Netizens: On the History and Impact
of Usenet and the Internet
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/
and in print edition ISBN 0-8186-7706-6
see especially chapter 10 "On the Early Days of Usenet"
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Ronda Hauben <ronda@UMCC.UMCC.UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: history of acceptable use policies
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>This is somewhat anachronistic; but I recall a serious flap circa 1967, about students using the ARPANET to circulate anti-(VN)war propaganda. DARPA had to send out a notice that the whole system was put in jeopardy by such uses; we all understood how unenforceable that was.
This is strange since the mailing list which I think was called arms-d was about the horrors of nuclear war and the debate over what the various folks on the list thought would be a way to solve the problem.
I write about this in one of the draft papers I did about ARPANET mailing lists and early Usenet newsgroups. The paper is in the usenet.hist directory at
http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~ronda/usenet.hist/public_sphere_use.txt
Ronda
ronda@umcc.umich.edu
----------
Netizens: On the History and Impact
of Usenet and the Internet
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/
and in print edition ISBN 0-8186-7706-6
see especially chapter 10 "On the Early Days of Usenet"
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