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

[Ken Hess]

I don't think we have any red carpet left. There's an entryway-size swatch
of lime green shag leftover from the 70s that will have to do. But, hey,
welcome anyway, Mark.

Thanks,

Ken

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On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 8:35 AM Richi Jennings via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> 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>
>
>
> // @RiCHi <http://twitter.com/RiCHi> | +44.7789.200701 | 1.408.256.0084 |
> richi.uk
>
>
>
> 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
>> narrow the scope of your missive.  The default is to reply to the list.)
>>
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