OT: World Crisis
I have reposted here and on RB several emails on the crisis. They were all from contributors to the IP newsgroup, created and moderated by Dave Farber, a very distinguished, sixty-something, computer science professor from Penn who returned recently from a leave of absence while he served as the Chief Technologist for the FCC.
For the most part, the members of the group are academics, scientists, engineers, executives, government officials, and journalists from computing and communications. Many are household names, at least among technology groupies. The IP postings usually deal with technology. However, since 911, Farber has posted many opinions on the WTC crisis.
I have been getting the IP posts for about four years. I start work daily before 5:30 nearly every day, and world-traveller and seemingly indefatigable Farber often releases the first posts to the group before 7 AM, including Saturday and Sunday. (These are posts that have first been read by Farber and then passed on to the group.) One is very careful when posting to the group, since poor composition and poorly formed opinions do not make it through the moderator's review.
Although the IP group membership is controlled and limited by Dave Farber, the archives of the group are freely available at interesting-people.org. Please note that, when clicking on articles from recent months, a bug in the software (done pro bono by a young woman from Singapore) shows the dates of the messages as 1970 instead of 2001. I am particularly recommending the postings starting 9/11.
Bt the way, Pakistan had more than one million Afghan refugees before the current crisis. A good number of these were from the fighting between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. |
