Re: [swinog] Re: CableCom Contact Address
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Martin Blapp wrote: A customer of ours has found his server blacklisted. He tried Thank you very much. I've received a lot of feedback from Cablecom and we found out that our friend Martin F. abused another customer of ours - really nice. If we only could make this guy responsable for the damage ... Well, try to sue him. Even though Switzerland doesn't have a law against spam, I don't think it's legal to abuse other people's systems. Disclaimer: IANAL. - Felix -- Felix Rauch, http://www.nice.ch/~felix/ Member of Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG): http://www.siug.ch/ This article contains my personal view only! Use of my addresses for marketing purposes is hereby strictly prohibited according to swiss privacy laws. ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
[swinog] WIPO Seminar on Copyright and Internet Intermediaries (fwd)
This is not of technical nature, but might be of interest to some participants of this list: On April 18 there is a WIPO seminar in Geneva on "Copyright and Internet Intermediaries" (e.g. ISPs). It's supposed to be with experts and audience participation. - Felix WIPO Seminar on Copyright and Internet Intermediaries, Geneva, April 18, 2005 Register online at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/2005/wipo_iis/en/ The Seminar The management of intellectual property in the online environment poses significant opportunities as well as challenges, and raises high stakes as the value of online transactions, both authorized and unauthorized, increases. Internet intermediaries, as providers of services that enable these transactions to occur, are at the center of global debate involving complex policy, legal and business issues. The WIPO Copyright and Related Rights Sector is organizing a Seminar on Copyright and Internet Intermediaries to help obtain a better understanding of these issues. The Seminar will be held in Geneva on April 18, 2005. The Seminar is designed to provide a forum for discussion among international experts and business leaders, academics, government delegates and policy makers. Key speakers, with audience participation, will address various ways to approach issues relating to copyright liability of those who act as online intermediaries: which may include Internet service providers (ISPs), providers of file-sharing services, auction sites and portals. Venue and date The Seminar will be held at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 34, chemin des Colombettes, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland. It will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 18, 2005. Participants should arrive before 8.30 a.m., in order to complete their registration. Registration The Seminar is open to all interested persons, free of charge, although numbers will be limited by seating capacity. Those wishing to register are requested to return the registration form <http://www.wipo.int/meetings/2005/wipo_iis/en/registration.html>. -- Felix Rauch, http://www.nice.ch/~felix/ Member of Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG): http://www.siug.ch/ This article contains my personal view only! Use of my addresses for marketing purposes is hereby strictly prohibited according to swiss privacy laws. ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
Re: [swinog] Swisscom blocks Skype over UMTS ?
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Folken wrote: [...] > Telcos hate (any form of) VoIP in userland. Telcos come from a place > where they can monitor/bill exact usage. To them it sums up to lost > revenues: [1][2] Well.. they can still bill you for data usage... [...] > Another issue is that Skype causes traffic whilst not in use. Apperantly > to some statistics posted in some forum I cannot remember: up to a > gigabyte a month. So they could argue consumer protection. That's certainly not the general case. I have Skype on my machines at home as well as at the office. For both connections I get traffic reports and my traffic hasn't changed much since I installed Skype. I thought that Skype selects random ports for the service, but in any case you can select the port yourself (which I had to do to make it work behind a NAT box). The sad thing is that Swisscom has a complete &%*ç"&*/@% as speaker, who tells a newspaper that they do not offer UMTS services for voice, but only for data traffic. What does he think voice is?? Maybe the very little Mr. Voicy who carries his voice in a tiny suitcase through the cables. - Felix -- Felix Rauch, http://www.nice.ch/~felix/ Member of Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG): http://www.siug.ch/ This article contains my personal view only! Use of my addresses for marketing purposes is hereby strictly prohibited according to swiss privacy laws.___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
[swinog] Campaign against data retention
(Please forgive the non-technical mail, but mandatory data retention should be a highly relevant issue for most ISPs. While this is not exactly brand new, it hasn't shown up on the list so far:) "European Digital Rights" (EDRI) recently launched a petition against data retention, which you can sign to show your support (so far there are 22'500 signatures from all over europe). SIUG supports the campaign. Campaign website: http://www.dataretentionisnosolution.com/ More details are in this excerpt from the EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 3.15, 27 July 2005: [...] === 2. EDRI launches petition against data retention === European Digital Rights, together with the Dutch ISPs XS4ALL and Bit, launched an international petition today against mandatory data retention. The petition is aimed at the European Commission and the members of the European Parliament. EDRI argues that retention of telecommunication traffic data is an invasive tool that interferes with the private life of all 450 million people in the European Union. Secondly, the petition points out that data retention is illegal under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, because it is disproportionate. Thirdly, the petition explains that security gained from retention may be illusory, as traffic data may easily point to another user and finally, the means through which this policy is being pursued are illegitimate. In the next two months, EDRI hopes to collect an impressive amount of signatures from all over Europe, to convince Commission and Parliament that data retention is no solution against terrorism and crime. Supporters are kindly invited to help distribute information about this petition, by placing the banner on their sites or homepages and spread the news through mailinglists. The petition-initiative will be presented during the opening speech of the open-air hacker event What the Hack, Thursday 28 July. During and after the event, everybody is invited to contribute to the website by adding translations in many other languages and back-ground files. The petition script uses confirmed opt-in to verify every signature. This means everybody has to provide the organisers with a valid e-mail address to receive the confirmation. The e-mail address will not be used for any other purpose. Only the name and country of every signer will be published publicly on the website and presented to Commission and Parliament. The specific privacy policy for this campaign guarantees that personal data will only be used for this specific purpose and all personal data will be destroyed after presentation of the list. EDRI and ISP petition against data retention (available in English and French) http://www.dataretentionisnosolution.com [...] === 11. About === EDRI-gram is a biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. Currently EDRI has 17 members from 11 European countries. European Digital Rights takes an active interest in developments in the EU accession countries and wants to share knowledge and awareness through the EDRI-grams. All contributions, suggestions for content or agenda-tips are most welcome. Except where otherwise noted, this newsletter is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. See the full text at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Newsletter editor: Sjoera Nas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information about EDRI and its members: http://www.edri.org/ -- Felix Rauch, http://www.nice.ch/~felix/ Member of Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG): http://www.siug.ch/ This article contains my personal view only! Use of my addresses for marketing purposes is hereby strictly prohibited according to swiss privacy laws. ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
[swinog] International panel on data retention in Montreux
Sorry for this non-technical mail, but I guess the "damocles sword" of data retention is quite an issue for all ISPs. I would like to draw your attention to a unique international panel on data retention, which takes place before the annual International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Montreux. You can also propose a speaker from your organisation for the panel, which could ensure the ISP's voice is heard too. If you are interested, reply soon to Daniel Boos of SIUG (daniel.boos /at\ siug.ch). The panel on data retention is during the afternoon of 13 September in the Montreux Conference Center and is organised jointly by European Digital Rights (EDRI), Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG), Communica-ch, Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) and others. A few well known international speakers participate at the panel: 1. Data retention (14:30-16:00) Speakers: - Cédric Laurant (Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington D.C.) (confirmed) - Peter Swire (Ohio State University) - Hielke Hijmans (Principal Administrator, Office of the European Data Protection Supervisor) (confirmed) - Karel Neuwirt (former Commissioner, Czech Republic) (invited) Moderator: Ralf Bendrath (EDRI; University of Bremen) (confirmed) An invitation text in german and french has been distributed over the SIUG-Announce mailinglist: https://your.trash.net/pipermail/siug-announce/2005-September/000121.html English information is on the EDRI homepage: http://www.edri.org/panels A second panel on biometrics follows right after the panel on data retention, but is probably of less interest to this list. Cheers, Felix -- Felix Rauch, http://www.nice.ch/~felix/ Member of Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG): http://www.siug.ch/ This article contains my personal view only! Use of my addresses for marketing purposes is hereby strictly prohibited according to swiss privacy laws.___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
RE: [swinog] Autoresponder
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Steven Glogger wrote: > there's a short answer: Short solution: Add all the autoresponding addresses to the "swinog-autorespond" mailinglist and let them have fun there... ;-) - Felix -- Felix Rauch, http://www.nice.ch/~felix/ Member of Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG): http://www.siug.ch/ This article contains my personal view only! Use of my addresses for marketing purposes is hereby strictly prohibited according to swiss privacy laws. ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
