[LUNI] Fwd: SPECIAL UPDATE: ISOC-Chicago June 2003 Meeting Announcement - for June 26, 2003Arun Khan knura at yahoo.comWed Jun 25 13:28:04 CDT 2003
The topic presented at the ISOC Chicago Chapter meeting is timely. Bill Slater has been leading the ISOC Chicago chapter and championing issues related to the Internet. Please join the meeting and participate in the ISOC Chicago Chapter. Thanks. -- Best wishes and regards, Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: SPECIAL UPDATE: ISOC-Chicago June 2003 Meeting Announcement - for June 26, 2003 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:48:03 -0500 From: "William F. Slater, III" <slater at billslater.com> To: "Slater at Slatertech.Com" <slater at slatertech.com> [This is a Public Service Announcement of the Chicago Chapter of the Internet Society. If you wish to be removed from this e-mail distribution list, please send e-mail to our chapter secretary, Joanna Roguska, at jroguska at speedsite.com.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Dear Fellow Internauts: We have a special update about our meeting on Thursday night: After this previous e-mail went was sent about the meeting on Thursday night, I was contacted by the President of Chicago-based UNSPAM.com. That would be Mr. Matthew Prince. He will be addressing us for the first ever ISOC-Chicago presentation on the SPAM Situation plaguing the Internet. I am grateful for the opportunity to join forces with UNSPAM.com to fight this horrible problem that consumes so much of your time and energy every day. There are some amazing things you will learn about the best methods, including good laws and bad laws to fight SPAM. Bring your notepad and take notes, because by the end of this presentation you will know what to do and who to contact at various levels of government in order to join in and help fight SPAM on multiple fronts. Information on Mr. Prince and UPSPAM.COM is shown below: About Matthew Prince: MATTHEW PRINCE CEO and co-founder Matthew is an expert on innovative techniques in fighting spam. Matthew pioneered unspam's patent-pending RedListing(tm) technology that allows the establishment of a do-not-email registry that: maintains the security and secrecy of the registrants email addresses; allows marketers to protect their proprietary lists; and provides an effective and legally enforceable means of opting out of unwanted messages. Beyond developing the technology, Matthew has consulted with governments on the state and federal level, including delivering testimony to the Michigan legislature in support of establishing a registry there. Prior to founding unspam, Matthew worked as an executive for Groupworks, Inc., an online insurance brokerage startup. Matthew has a J.D. from the University of Chicago and is a member of the Illinois Bar. Matthew also received a B.A. in English, with a minor in Computer Programming from Trinity College. About UNSPAM.com Building The First Real Solution To Unsolicited Email Around the world anti-spam laws have landed with a thunk. They have been, almost resoundingly, a universal failure. And yet, legislature after legislature simply continues to try the same thing which has already proven itself ineffective. The primary problem is that email addresses are relatively anonymous. In order for a law to work there has to be a jurisdictional nexus between the state and the individual being protected by the law. An email address provides no such nexus and thus spammers can continually claim they are not on notice of whose laws apply. If there is going to be a legislative solution, the first step has to be to tie an email address to a particular jurisdiction. After that, the owner of the email address can effectively assert that marketers are on notice of what laws govern the individual's inbox. But lawmakers shouldn't just stop there. Individuals should be allowed to precommit to not wanting certain kinds of messages, and put the world on notice to that effect. For example, while it's any Internet users right to receive adult material, it should be every users right to block that material if they don't want it. That would be an effective anti-spam law, the next generation of statute, and it's the promise of a do-not-email registry. How To Pass An Effective Anti-Spam Law Do you remember the last time you really looked forward to the chime of your email program? Today, if you're like most active Internet users, your inbox is full of get rich quick schemes, ads for dubious products, offers for pornography, and other messages you never wanted to receive. Spam has gone from an annoyance to a literal plague and it is quickly suffocating to death the usefulness of the Internet's best feature: email. While different tools and techniques exist to help solve the problem, none has yet proven itself completely effective. Some block too much, eliminating messages you want to receive. Others don't block enough, letting through messages that are clearly unwanted. Some are inflexible to use or hard to administer. Others aren't available to individuals or don't work on your choice of platform. To solve the problem someone needed to take the most effective classic tools and techniques, throw in some cutting-edge technology, and create a service that is easy to use on the platform of your choice. That's an ambitious goal, but it's just what we're doing at unspam. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- The June 2003 Announcement is repeated with meeting time, location and other information below: Our Next meeting, Thursday Evening, June 26, 2003, will feature presentations on two very important topics: The SPAM Situation Plaguing the Internet, and our ISOC-Chicago Mentoring Program. I hope you will join us. We will meet at 7:00pm on Thursday, June 26, 2003, at the Northwestern University Library in the New Resource Classroom in Evanston. When you get to the library ask for directions or better yet, follow the pointer signs that should be posted to guide you to the meeting room. The location information is shown below. Meeting Location: Our next meeting will be this coming Wednesday night, June 26, 2003, 7:00pm - 9:00pm at Northwestern University. The meeting will be held in the New Reference Classroom, University Library, 2nd floor. Parking is FREE after 6:00pm. The directions page is at the link shown below: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/directions/index.html Two additional things I wanted to address in this notice: 1) If you are an ISOC member and on this list, we want you to affiliate with ISOC-Chicago. When you get a chance, go to www.isoc.org and indicate that you are affiliating with the Chicago Chapter of the Internet Society. This administrative step is necessary so that our numbers won't fall off, endangering our chapter charter status. If you are not an ISOC Member, go to www.isoc.org, sign up as a new member and indicate that you are affiliating with the Chicago Chapter of the Internet Society. 2) We are having elections again and will be accepting nominations for the following officer positions, to create our voting ballot: President Vice President VP of Technology Secretary Treasurer a.. You can nominate yourself, or a colleague. b.. You must be an ISOC and ISOC-Chicago member to participate, in running and in voting c.. To be nominated for a position on the ballot, you need to send a bio on yourself (no more than one page), stating your qualifications, interests, background, education, etc. to our Webmaster / Director of Elections, Ms. Terry Felke at tfelke at hotmail.com, no later than July 1, 2003. The voting will occur two weeks later, with the results being announced at our July 2003 ISOC-Chicago Chapter meeting. A word of advice on each of these positions: We expect your participation at the 12 monthly ISOC-Chicago meetings, and some light administrative work during the month. What we have here is a volunteer, professional organization that is trying to add value to the community and its members. Please do not run for one of our officer positions unless you are really serious about participation. This is about service, growth, perseverance, dependability, teamwork and leadership. If that's what you are about, then please do consider running, Finally, we are always looking for ideas and speakers, so if you want to participate and contribute, I am as close as your keyboard. Let me hear from you. Sincerely, Bill P.S. In October 2003, ISOC-Chicago will be five years old! We are planning a special event for this. Again, if you have ideas and want to participate, let us hear from you. ----------------------------------------------------------------- William F. Slater, III President, Chicago Chapter of the Internet Society http://ISOC-Chicago.org slater at billslater.com http://billslater.com/signature 1409 N. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL 60622 United States of America Home: 773-235-3080 Cellular 312-758-0307 -------------------------------------------------------
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