[CWN-Summit] FYI re reaction to Powell's resignation - we're saying unlicensed his only positive legacy

Fri Jan 21 11:11:53 CST 2005

Statement concerning the resignation of FCC Chairman Michael Powell --

Michael Calabrese, Vice President and director of Spectrum Policy at the
New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC, made
the following statement this morning:

"We have a decidedly mixed, but mostly negative view of Powell's tenure.

"Powell left only one significant positive legacy, which was to
encourage experimentation with the sort of unlicensed wireless broadband
technologies that have generated the WiFi productivity boom. 

"More than most others at the FCC, he understands that open access to
the public airwaves for community broadband will extend high-speed
Internet access to rural and low-income communities far faster than
burying fiber wires.

"On most other issues, however, Powell's tenure has radically changed
the nation's media and telecom policy direction in ways that damage both
our economy and our democracy.

"Powell has championed the view that media conglomeration and less
competition is good for the economy, forgetting that its larger impact
is to weaken our democracy. 

"Powell has advocated continued free use of the public airwaves for
broadcasters, but has refused to enforce or update station's public
interest obligations, except possibly with respect to his pandering
about "indecency." 

"And he has time and again sought to privatize the public airwaves -
conferring windfalls worth billions of dollars at taxpayer expense - as
part of an ideologically-driven industrial policy that Congress has
consistently rejected. 

"He has pushed hard to end the open, free flow of content and
applications over the Internet, claiming falsely that this is the
incentive cable and telephone companies need to invest in broadband
deployment.

"Although it would be hard to do worse than Michael Powell, we can only
hope that his successor is someone who can persuade the White House that
the U.S. is rapidly falling behind the rest of the world in affordable
broadband deployment."

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Today's Topics:

   1. chambana.net status update (Zachary C. Miller)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:33:26 -0600 (CST)
From: "Zachary C. Miller" <zach at chambana.net>
Subject: [CWN-Summit] chambana.net status update
To: cwn-summit at cuwireless.net
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If you are receiving this message it is because you are subscribed to
one of the many email lists on lists.chambana.net. I am sending this to
everyone because it is a very important update. I will not send any more
updates like this. If you wish to receive future updates about the
server's status please subscribe to the imsahp-users email list:

   http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/imsahp-users

I will also be posting server status updates to: 

   http://www.livejournal.com/~chambananet/

If you want an RSS feed of these updates you can go here:

   http://www.livejournal.com/~chambananet/data/rss

Now that I finally have a chance to breath I wanted to make sure that
everyone using my server knows what has been up with the server over the
past month.

The chambana.net server also hosts ucimc.org, weftfm.org,
prairiegreens.org, Office of Volunteer Programs email lists, and many
other organizations email lists and websites. In late December, our
former-ISP Sol Tec discontinued DSL service and the chambana.net server
went offline. Notification of the timing of this disconnection was not
given and we were unable to plan for it but luckily OJC Technologies
jumped in to save the day and provided one month of free emergency
colocation and bandwidth for the server.

  Interim network connectivity is provided by OJC Technologies,
  www.ojctech.com.  OJC invites community organizations to "Your
  Website. Create it! Launch it!".  This is a 4-day course held at
  Parkland in collaboration with WebEasel, WebEasel.net.  Call 351-2235
  for more info.

There was only 24 hours of downtime and many users didn't even notice
the outage. Those of you who tried to send email to with
@lists.cu.groogroo.com may have had ongoing trouble. That trouble has
also been resolved recently. If you are still using
lists.cu.groogroo.com as the domain name for emails to lists, please
switch to lists.chambana.net which is now the prefered name. 

There has also been a huge increase in the amount of spam getting
through to some of the lists. I have updated the spam filtering software
to use "greylisting" which should decrease the amount of spam
tremendously. Under the greylisting system, some email messages may take
up to 2 hours to be received but this will become more rare after the
first few days that the system is in place. 

Soon the server will be back at chambana.net headquarters with a much
faster and more reliable network connection than we've ever had. There
will be no more than 2 hours of downtime when the server is moved back.

That's all for now. Keep an eye on
http://www.livejournal.com/~chambananet
for ongoing updates. 

-- 
Zachary C. Miller
Chambana.net Volunteer System Administrator

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