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Z SCOUPE: July 15-19, 1996 -- UPDATED EVERY MONDAY

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vol. 1, no. 8


smokin'?

Some UCSF researchers made a big stink by releasing

the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation

pages on the Internet last year. Now they've got

a whole book, with excerpts on the Web.



On July 8th the University of California,

San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge

Management released an electronic version of

The Cigarette Papers published in hardcover

by the University of California Press in April

1996. The book uses documents from the Brown

and Williamson Tobacco Corporation to analyze

general practices of the tobacco industry including

their knowledge of the physiological effects of

smoking and research with nicotine to ensure

a growing market for their product.


The collaborative effort between the Press and the

Library offers readers paper and electronic options.

The online version provides direct links to the

Brown and Williamson documents previously

published by the Library and enables full text

searching on any word in the text.



Find out more through Znews-link to: Cigarette Papers website.

Znews INTERNET TECHNOLOGY FEATURE:

The Great Telephony Debate:

Internet Phone Services Faces Regulatory Threat

By Cynthia Kurkowski

Rallying for unregulated Internet telephony, Netscape Communications, Inc. and its development partners, InSoft Inc. and Voxware Inc., have responded to a petition presented to the FCC by the America's Carriers Telecommunication Association (ACTA) to regulate and tax netphone software providers. The FCC ruling on the matter will have far-reaching effects on worldwide communications via the Internet.

Netscape response claims that ACTA's petition is nothing more than an attempt to squelch new business opportunities. In a formal filing with the FCC, Netscape asks that the FCC (1) Refrain from regulation in order to allow for the growth of new online ventures; (2) Preempt state public service commission regulatory authority over the Internet as Internet communications are interstate and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 discourages such regulation; and (3) Promote a competitive, deregulated, international telecommunications environment.

The core issue of the debate is whether Internet telephony companies can be regulated as telecommunications providers, or whether they fall into the category of "enhanced" information services, which are excluded from FCC regulation under the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

How can you use the Internet as a telephone?

Znews FREE SPEECH FEATURE:

Read what Judges had to say about the CDA:

• Chief Judge Dolores Sloviter
• Judge Ronald Buckwalter
• Judge Stewart Dalzell
  
  
  
  

Znews SERIAL VIGNETTES: By E.S. TALER

These Little Things

Georgia smiles at me. She's got this

round pale moon pie face that beams,

that beams when I call her name and

she turns. Her sister Oona is a dead

ringer at a momentary meeting. But

if you get a chance to sit across from

her face, you begin to notice. These

little things, like the dimples that

punctuate the family's beaming, that

her curls just as white blond as the

day she was born hang slightly longer

changing the cherub face to one of a nymph.



Oona leans into my conversation . . .









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