"Email -- Should the Sender Pay?": EFF Fundraiser, Debate,Between Esther Dyson and Danny O'Brien

["David Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Esther Dyson <edyson () edventure com>
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> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:24:28 -0400
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> for IP -
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> Come hear at least two sides of the many-sided story.  It's a bit 
> ironic that this event is being held as an EFF fundraiser, but never 
> mind. Those who don't agree with AOL's position can donate their 
> money to their own favorite cause.
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> Esther Dyson
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> > * "Email -- Should the Sender Pay?": EFF Fundraiser, Debate
> > Between Esther Dyson and Danny O'Brien
> >
> > In light of AOL's adopting a "certified" email system, EFF
> > is hosting a debate on the future of email. With
> > distinguished entrepreneur Mitch Kapor moderating, EFF
> > Activist Coordinator Danny O'Brien and renowned tech expert
> > Esther Dyson will discuss the potential consequences if
> > people have to pay to send email. Would the Internet
> > deteriorate as a platform for free speech? Would spam or
> > phishing decline?
> >
> > WHEN:
> > Thursday, April 20th, 2006
> > 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
> >
> > WHAT:
> >
> > "Email - Should the Sender Pay?"
> >
> >  RSVP to events () eff org
> >
> > WHO:
> >
> > Danny O'Brien
> >
> > Danny O'Brien is the Activist Coordinator for the EFF. His
> > job is to help our membership in making their voice heard:
> > in government and regulatory circles, in the marketplace,
> > and with the wider public. Danny has documented and fought
> > for digital rights in the UK for over a decade, where he
> > also assisted in building tools of open democracy like Fax
> > Your MP. He co-edits the award-winning NTK newsletter, has
> > written and presented science and travel shows for the BBC,
> > and has performed a solo show about the Net in the London's
> > West End.
> >
> > Esther Dyson
> >
> > Esther Dyson is editor of  Release 1.0, CNET's quarterly
> > technology-industry newsletter, and host of its PC Forum,
> > the high-tech market's leading annual executive conference.
> > She sold her business, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks
> > in early 2004. Previously, she had co-owned EDventure and
> > written/edited Release 1.0 since 1983.  She was also an
> > early board member of EFF and its chairman from July 1995
> > to January 1998 and was founding chairman of ICANN
> > (1998-2000). The author of the book "Release 2.0: A design
> > for living in the digital age," which suggested a sender-pays
> > model for e-mail in 1997, Dyson also recently wrote a New York
> > Times op-ed called "You've Got Goodmail," supporting a voluntary
> > recipient-charges/sender-pays model for email.
> >
> > Mitch Kapor
> >
> > Mitchell Kapor is the President and Chair of the Open Source
> > Applications Foundation, a non-profit organization he
> > founded in 2001 to promote the development and acceptance of
> > high-quality application software developed and distributed
> > using open source methods and licenses. He is widely known
> > as the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the
> > designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made
> > the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in
> > the 1980's. In 1990, Kapor co-founded EFF.
> >
> > WHERE:
> > Roxie Film Center
> > 3117 16th Street, San Francisco
> > (between Valencia and Guerrero)
> > Tel: (415) 863-1087
> >
> > See the link below for a map:
> > http://www.roxie.com/directions.cfm
> >
> > Local Muni are the 22 and 53 (both at 16th & Valencia), 33
> > (18th & Valencia), 14 (16th & Mission), 49 (16th & Mission).
> > BART stops one block east at 16th & Mission.
> >
> > Public Parking is available on Hoff Street, off of 16th
> > between Valencia and Mission at very reasonable rates.
> >
> > This fundraiser is open to the general public. The suggested
> > donation is $20. Wear you EFF t-shirt and your suggested donation
> > plummets to just $10!
> > No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
> >
> > Please RSVP to events () eff org
> >
> > Adaptive Path is the generous sponsor of this fundraising
> > event. Founded in 2001, Adaptive Path is a leading user
> > experience consulting, research, and training firm that has
> > provided services to a range of clients, including Fortune
> > 100 corporations, pure-Web startups, and established
> > nonprofit organizations. The company is headquartered in San
> > Francisco. To learn more about Adaptive Path, visit the
> > company website at:
> > http://www.adaptivepath.com
> >
> > For more information on this event:
> > www.eff.org/bayff
> >
> > To learn more about the DearAOL campaign against AOL's
> > planned system:
> > http://www.dearaol.com
> >
> > For Esther Dyson's editorial, "You've Got Goodmail":
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/opinion/17dyson.htm
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> Esther Dyson              Always make new mistakes!
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