Hot Topics on Link in 1998

This is a summary of the most frequently discussed topics each month on the Link Mailing List for 1998. The summary was complied manually, from the monthly Link archives. Topics with ten or more postings were selected.

The link list was established in 1993 by Eric Wainwright and Tony Barry as a forum to discuss emerging issues related to the development of the internet in Australia. The list is maintained by Tony Barry.

Shown below are: topic (number of postings) originator date.

The originator's name is linked to the first posting and you can follow the thread of conversation from there.

January

Analogue Phones and Brain Tumours (16) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 05 Jan
bugs: who should fix them? (10) Richard Welykochy 23 Jan
Clinton To Release Internet Naming Policy On Web (15) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 28 Jan
CyberSitter over-zealousness (10) Ross Johnson 16 Jan
Internet monitoring and licensing proposal (11) Glen Turner 19 Jan
More on cable TV boxes (11) Jan Whitaker 12 Jan
ninemsn (11) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 01 Jan
OGIT Project Gatekeeper (11) Carl.Makin@aipo.gov.au 28 Jan
Will someone upgrade e-mail applications (12) Stewart Fist 26 Jan
Y2K and embedded system (11) Stewart Fist 06 Jan
Y2K tax deductions (fwd) (10) Rachel Polanskis 7 Jan

February

1GHz CPUs (19) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 05 Feb
Case Adjourned (19) Thomas P. Koltai 5 Feb
Charging authors for E Publishing (14) Tony Barry 17 Feb
Clinton budgets more for high tech (13) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 04 Feb
Deetya (30) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 02 Feb
Deetya and document standards (17) Robert Hart 5 Feb
Electronic voting (18) Bill D'Arcy 6 Feb
RFI: chat room dangers (16) Roger Clarke 20 Jan
Smashing censorware (31) Rick Welykochy 10 Feb
The Ausnet Hack (11) Thomas P. Koltai 4 Feb
your mail (11) Jennifer Cram 2 Feb

March

[Fwd: Stroustrp on C++...] (10) Ramin Marzbani 08 Mar
Australia's Education Industry (16) Stephen 17 Mar
Compression Algorithm (15) Stephen 24 Mar
Digital Television (21) Trevor Jordan 26 Mar
Files on email (13) Peter Cox 11 Mar
Is this the longest domain in the world? (12) Rachel Polanskis 10 Mar
memberlist of link mailinglist (10) Felipe Rodriquez 06 Mar
Yellow Pages Priority Advantage (31) Roger Clarke 23 Mar

April

(fwd) W3C focus on privacy, not security (10) David Chia 16 Apr
Commonwealth Government Entry Point on the Internet (10) Jan Whitaker 31 Mar
Encouraging On-Line Commerce (12) Stephen 18 Apr
Intellectual Property in IT (16) richard@auscoms.com.au 07 Apr
No ISDN!? (16) Ben Elliston 8 Apr
Price of local and international calls (12) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 22 Apr
Vic & NSW govts scramble to attract Intel chip-plant (16) George Michaelson 13 Apr

May

ACS Welcomes Tax Relief for Y2K Work (46) Tom Worthington 13 May
Multi-language web pages - mixed results (10) Tom Worthington 4 May
New Time problem (16) Stewart Fist 21 May
Resellers and Registries EOI. (12) Adam Todd 12 May
Telecommunications Access Issues (19) Shara Evans 19 May 1998
Using telephone wiring for high speed access (10) Karin Geiselhart 07 May
Voice traffic vs Internet (12) Stewart Fist 05 May

June

Confusing .au.com domain (19) Robin Whittle 16 Jun
HTML in email (21) Robin Whittle 6 Jun
INET: Are there no issues any more? (17) Ramin Marzbani 04 Jun
Internet credit card transactions (29) DD - Helen Roberts 3 Jun
Press Releases on fed.gov.au (10) Tony Barry 22 Jun
Quantum crypto program (17) Robin Whittle 11 Jun
Rate of technology change (12) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 22 Jun
The dumb country (17) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 24 Jun
Win98 and TV upgrades (11) Ben Elliston 17 Jun

July

Different definitions - broadcast (11) Jan Whitaker 6 Jul
Is it any wonder? (18) Nicholls, David 16 Jul
New release from Minister's office (17) Jan Whitaker 30 Jun
PC (16) Stewart Fist 10 Jul
Privacy (19) richard@auscoms.com.au Tue, 07 Jul 98 09:17:57 +1000

August

CGT and other whinges (10) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 14 Aug
Content Blocking Report (33) Danny Yee 5 Aug
Getting a KeyPOST Digital Certificate - Part 1 - Applying (18) Tom Worthington 19 Aug

September

Censoring the Internet with PICS (24) Colin Richardson 17 Sep
Depressed Internet Users (10) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 06 Sep
MS Word Format Difficulties (18) Roger Clarke 10 Sep
Personal computers? (20) Ben Elliston 1 Sep
RE: MS Word Format Difficulties (13) Bruce Kay 11 Sep
Telstra threatens removal of PAPL services (20) Rachel Polanskis 21 Sep
the elections and the web (16) Ramin Marzbani 09 Sep

October

AOL Jack Davies National Press Club Address (12) Tom Worthington 08 Oct
Branding, domain names et al. (14) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 17 Oct
Coca-Cola-Amatil and 'branding' of chips (11) George Michaelson 15 Oct
Email line lengths (10) Robin Whittle 7 Oct
Recording of Telephone Calls. (13) Adam Todd 01 Oct
Telstra to offer rural Australia free e-mail (12) Bernard Robertson-Dunn 15 Oct

November

IT skills (17) Matthew Allen 24 Nov
RE: IT skills (The pros of double degrees?) (16) Andrew Roberts 24 Nov
RE: MP3 HITS BACK (15) Rankine, Alastair 3 Nov

December

'Digital jukebox' self-programmed music CD in OZ? (10) George Michaelson 4 Dec
30 MILLION USE HOTMAIL (29) Tony Barry 2 Dec
Blue Mountain and Microsoft (12) Adam Creed 22 Dec
National bandwidth inquiry (15) Tony Barry 10 Dec
National bandwidth inquiry) (12) richard@auscoms.com.au 14 Dec