On 7/19/07, nznog@neilnz.com <nznog@neilnz.com> wrote:

OK, If that's not actually the foreword to the InternetNZ History, then it
should be.

Cheers - N...

Ps. I sense an "Unauthorised history of the Internet in NZ" coming up :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Lyall [mailto:simon@darkmere.gen.nz]
Sent: Thursday, 19 July 2007 11:01 p.m.
To: nznog
Cc: Keith Newman
Subject: Re: [nznog] History of the Internet in New Zealand

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Susi Fookes wrote:
> InternetNZ has commissioned Keith Newman to write a history of the
> Internet in New Zealand. The book will go to the publishers later this
> year. I have read the first few chapters and it is a fantastic read (I
> look forward to reading it all).

I suspect that libel laws will make the book a less interesting read than it
could be, stuff like:

Blocking rival companies, DOSing rival companies, Stealing bandwidth, In
house media and porn servers, broke companies selling assets to new
companies and reopening overnight, trading while insolvent, hackers posting
customer lists ( at least two incidents) , of course all manner of sexual,
alcohol and drug hi-jinks (some online), nighttime asset grabs, cucumbers,
Girl on IRC -> Customer database -> phone, credit card fraud by companies,
serial spammers, general corporate skulduggery, interesting sources of
finance, interesting routing tricks, spamming rival customers bases,
lawsuits by the dozen ( domainz, planet, Alan Brown *2 , Iconz wellington ),
airmiles, $5,000 bills to home customers, hitman, hacker a in Star Wars tie,
etc.

will probably not be included. But I'm sure other interesting stuff happened
too.

Note: About 3/4s of the above occurred at companies I was not working for at
the time or have never worked for and at least 2 have happened in the last
12 months. My knowledge of most is 3rd hand ( except the "hacker in the Star
Wars tie" ). Some of them have appeared in the press though.

BTW: What exactly is the point of Linkin ?

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