[FYI] RTMmark will VoteAuction durch viele DN-Verweise wieder eröffnen

[Michael Bracker <michael.bracker@fitug.de>]

http://www.rtmark.com/voteauctionpr.html

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November 5, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

VOTEAUCTION SATIRE ILLEGALLY SQUELCHED, WILL RE-OPEN IN HUNDREDS OF
PLACES
RTMark.com reveals its role, offers cash to the first person who can
redirect the
domain of a major candidate's website to 62.116.31.68 
[...]

RTMark and many others believe that if U.S. authorities such as Bill
Jones wish
to purge the election process of corruption, they should start by
preventing
corporations from spending unlimited sums on electing particular
candidates, not
by stopping a satire that highlights the problem. As one commentator
wrote, "few
would disagree that the problem with money in politics today is the
hundreds of
millions of dollars at the top, not a few dollars at the bottom. Which
is why the
short-lived vote sale should be seen less as a serious act of sabotage
and more
as guerrilla theater."
(slate.msn.com/netelection/entries/00-08-23_88646.asp) 

Network Solutions' illegal deletion of the Vote-auction.com domain is
just the
latest blow in a series of actions that have closed the satirical
website three
times since it opened in August.
[...]

In response to Network Solution's attack, the Voteauction team has begun
gathering Vote-auction and Voteauction domains around the world and is
calling on
other domain owners to point their domains or sub-domains to
62.116.31.68, the
Voteauction IP (IP addresses are not dependent on domain name registrars
or on
Internic). If you have a domain or sub-domain that you can point to
62.116.31.68,
please do so and forward the information to pr@[62.116.31.68] to be
added to a
list of supporters
[...]
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siehe auch
http://heise.de/newsticker/data/ame-06.11.00-000/

Servus,
michi
--
Michael Bracker  - if it is to be
Bavaria, Germany - it is up to me

PS: CUT-line (c) by Axel H. Horns ;)