<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">For those unfamiliar with Rimm’s “research” and Philip Elmer-DeWitt’s story—as was I before falling down this rabbit hole:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><ul><li><a href="https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/pornscare/meeks-point-five.html">Brock Meeks’ POV</a><br></li><li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.internet.media-coverage/J0_uX7siOE0">K.K . Campbell’s summary of Rimm’s role in the CDAct and of his “interesting” past</a><br></li><li><a href="https://fortune.com/2015/07/01/cyberporn-time-marty-rimm/">PE-D’s 2015 <i>mea culpa</i></a></li><li><a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,134361,00.html">PE-D’s original text</a><br></li></ul></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"> <br>// <a href="http://twitter.com/RiCHi" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@RiCHi</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> |</span> <a href="tel:%2B44.7789.200701" value="+447789200701" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">+44.7789.200701</a> | <a href="tel:1.408.256.0084" value="+14082560084" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">1.408.256.0084</a> | <a href="http://richi.uk/" target="_blank">richi.uk</a> <br></font></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"> </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 3:55 AM Stephen Satchell via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 9/30/19 3:43 PM, Mark Brownstein via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
> I hope you're doing well -- it's great to see your name here. (Why the<br>
> hell didn't I join this group in 1996?)<br>
<br>
A little capsule history. A bunch of us (yes, I am a "founding member")<br>
took over a news group, much to the disgust of other readers of the<br>
newsgroup. So SVJN put up the first iteration of the IPG mailing list.<br>
We've been growing ever since.<br>
<br>
What was the trigger event? The "RIMM JOB" that was the cover story for<br>
Time magazine. It was so full of misinformation about the Internet that<br>
it just struck us as so wrong. We also had the fear that newbies on the<br>
Internet beat wouldn't have a trusted touchstone to help them learn<br>
about the place.<br>
<br>
(When you reply to a message, check the To: and Cc: if you want to<br>
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