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To: Alan Gallaspy who wrote (884)	12/20/1997 11:28:00 PM
From: chirodoc	Respond to of 1546

off topic <<<<Here in Nevada, the main gold mining state here in the US, we are starting to see some layoffs at some of the mines working lower quality ore ...when gold is still cheaper and the central banks have stopped selling--tell me when the mine has big time lay-offs. i'll buy into gold along with you--until that happens or we see inflation--it is a scary place to invest.

To: Alan Gallaspy who wrote (884)	12/21/1997 4:22:00 PM
From: chirodoc	Respond to of 1546

TEST YOUR INTERNET SAAVY ......with my score i wonder if i should be investing in the net! Pop Quiz On Top Internet News, Newsmakers Of 1997 By Michelle V. Rafter LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In Internet circles, 1997 will go down as the year WorldCom went after MCI, Janet Reno went after Microsoft, and everybody went after junk e-mail. But how well do you know the Internet companies, events and personalities who made headlines in 1997? Take the following quiz to find out your Internet intelligence quotient. Answers follow. 1. What do these have in common: NetShepherd, SafeSurf, Recreational Software Advisory Council? 2. What does a federal judge's Dec. 11 order temporarily bar Microsoft from doing? 3. Law enforcement authorities support pending legislation to strengthen domestic and export controls of encryption technology, but civil liberties and cyber-rights groups believe such controls are unworkable and unconstitutional. Under current law, unless they have a so-called "key recovery" system in place, U.S. computer companies cannot export encryption products with key lengths of more than: (a) 32 bits (b) 128 bits (c) 56 bits. 4. Eugene Kashpureff made news this fall as: (a) head of a White House task force on Internet domain-name issues, (b) head of InterNIC, the country's major domain-name registry, (c) domain-name system rebel now jailed in Canada awaiting extradition on computer and wire fraud charges. 5. Which of the following are not true: (a) In making its winning play for MCI, WorldCom bested British Telecom, GTE and AT&T (b) When completed, WorldCom's $37 billion acquisition of MCI will be the largest U.S. takeover ever (c) Before he ran the company that became WorldCom, Chief Executive Bernard J. "Bernie" Ebbers was a high school coach. 6. Subscribers booed and state attorney generals sued after America Online dropped its prices to a flat $19.95 a month, causing monumental traffic jams. What had AOL charged previously? 7. Early in the year, Internet service providers and local telephone companies squared off over per-minute access fees phone companies said ISPs should pay for using their voice networks to transport digital data. Ultimately, the Federal Communications Commission decided to (a) impose a 1-cent-a-minute charge on ISPs, (b) temporarily relieve ISPs from paying access fees or (c) require ISPs and phone companies to work out a compromise plan. 8. In September, Progressive Networks, the Seattle-based streaming audio and video company, changed its name to: (a) RealMedia (b) Progressive Media (c) RealNetworks. A bonus point for naming the company's other major announcement that month. 9. Which of the following members of the Clinton administration's Internet policy front guard did not leave their posts this year: (a) Christine Varney, Federal Trade Commissioner and online scam buster, (b) Ira Magaziner, electronic-commerce policy advisor or (c) Reed Hundt, Federal Communications Commissioner. 10. The Internet is revolutionizing investing. One stock-related phenomena that took hold this year was the Web public offering, best described as: (a) a self-directed public stock offering where a company uses its Web site to circulate a prospectus; (b) a special class of stock offering for Internet start-ups or (c) a stock investors can buy and sell on the issuer's Web site. Bonus points for naming the first company to go public via the Internet, and the name of the securities lawyer-turned-entrepreneur who created the concept. 11. SET stands for: (a) Safe Electronic Transfers (b) Secure Electronic Transaction or (c) Secure Encryption Technology. A bonus point for explaining what it is. 12. Of the following, which do e-mail experts advise using to block "spam" or junk e-mail: (a) hitting the "reply" key on your e-mail software and asking the spammer to remove you from their list, (b) sending a copy of the offending message to system administrators at your ISP, (c) setting e-mail software filters to automatically delete messages from addresses that send spam. Bonus points for naming the country's most notorious junk e-mail company and the entrepreneur who runs it. 13. What culture Web-zine followed its 1996 Cool Site of the Year award with a Still Cool Site of the Year honor in 1997? Answers: 1. All are methods of rating Internet content for obscene and other potentially offensive material. 2. Requiring Windows 95 licensees to carry the Internet Explorer Web browser. 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (a) AT&T didn't bid. 6. $19.95 a month for 20 hours or $9.95 a month for five plus $2.95 each for additional hours. 7. (b) 8. (c); the company also announced its intent to go public. 9. (b) Varney left in August to practice Internet law with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, and Hundt left in summer to write a book about his experiences at the agency and spend time with family. 10. (a); Spring Street Brewing Co.; Andrew Klein, now head of Wit Capital Corp. 11. (b); SET describes a series of open industry standards that allow consumers to safely shop online. 12. all; Cyber Promotions; Sanford "Spamford" Wallace. 13. Salon.