[Ipg-smz] [Ipg-l] Roll out the red carpet for... Mark Brownstein

[Richi Jennings]

For those unfamiliar with Rimm’s “research” and Philip
Elmer-DeWitt’s story—as was I before falling down this rabbit hole:

   - Brock Meeks’ POV
   <https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/pornscare/meeks-point-five.html>
   - K.K . Campbell’s summary of Rimm’s role in the CDAct and of
   his “interesting” past
   <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.internet.media-coverage/J0_uX7siOE0>
   - PE-D’s 2015 *mea culpa*
   <https://fortune.com/2015/07/01/cyberporn-time-marty-rimm/>
   - PE-D’s original text
   <http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,134361,00.html>


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On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 3:55 AM Stephen Satchell via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> On 9/30/19 3:43 PM, Mark Brownstein via Ipg-smz wrote:
> > I hope you're doing well -- it's great to see  your name here. (Why the
> > hell didn't I join this group in 1996?)
>
> A little capsule history.  A bunch of us (yes, I am a "founding member")
> took over a news group, much to the disgust of other readers of the
> newsgroup.  So SVJN put up the first iteration of the IPG mailing list.
>  We've been growing ever since.
>
> What was the trigger event?  The "RIMM JOB" that was the cover story for
> Time magazine.  It was so full of misinformation about the Internet that
> it just struck us as so wrong.  We also had the fear that newbies on the
> Internet beat wouldn't have a trusted touchstone to help them learn
> about the place.
>
> (When you reply to a message, check the To: and Cc: if you want to
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