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 Toronto Freenet REPORTER                          1.11.96 

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 TFN Board of Director Nominees ..........................1
 Toronto Freenet: A Moral Crisis .........................2
 Tiered Access? NO WAY! ..................................3
 TFN Mailing List ........................................4

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 TFN Board of Director Nominees ..........................1

 The last day for nomination has passed for the November
 1996 Toronto Freenet Board of Director's elections. Three
 people from the original 15 member Board have remained.
 These are- Marc Bernier, Daniel Albano, and Laine Ruus.

 There have been 19 people nominated for the 12 positions
 open on the TFN Board. Here is a selected list of Nominees:

        Patrick Burton        Dmytri Kleiner
        Alex MacKinnon        Marc Bissonnette
        Colin McGregor        Tom Evans
        David Jones           Gard Abrahamsen 
        Thomas Main           Richard van Abbe.
        Bob Allisat           Eugene Kashpureff

 One excellent candidate, Ms. Marianne Wroe, was forced
 to withdraw from the process by the activities of a sole
 candidate. This is highly regrettable. Apologies to Ms.
 Wroe from all for letting the situation get out of control.

 Should the next Toronto Freenet be marked by divisiveness,
 disharmony and poor judgment then the bankruptcy of this
 organization is impossible to avoid. It all depends upon
 who the members choose for their Board. Vote. Vote wisely.

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 Toronto Freenet: A Moral Crisis .........................2

 The immanent collapse of the Toronto Freenet has been blamed 
 on some mysterious financial crisis resulting from government 
 cut-backs. Well for one the government funding has continued 
 unabated until very recently. And for another everyone knew 
 that the end was coming to unlimited taxpayer money. We had 
 YEARS to prepare for this day. And still the crisis came.

 In my opinion there is no financial crisis in the Toronto 
 Freenet. The Internet business in Metro Toronto is a hundred-
 billion dollar game. The insignificant amount of money and 
 resources the Toronto Freenet requires to function could be
 paid for by five minutes of revenue from the profit making 
 computer sector. There is no financial crisis in the Toronto 
 Freenet.

 The Toronto Freenet is in MORAL crisis. It has no values, 
 no vision, no core truths to fight for or believe in. The 
 past leadership have chosen narrow, mean spirited and really 
 unpleasantly small concepts and feelings to express. There 
 is no way on earth.general any decent or creative people 
 could be attracted to this group of bigoted, stupid looking 
 louts. The Internet community respects INDEPENDENCE, TRUTH, 
 LIBERTY and a SENSE OF HUMOUR above all. And recoils from
 almost everything the Toronto Freenet has come to stand for 
 to this day.

 The Toronto Freenet is in MORAL crisis because the people 
 who have controlled it lack experience and goals sufficiently 
 broad and universal to attract widespread support on the 
 Internet and in this metropolis of Toronto. This is a place 
 of many cultures, preferences and beliefs. Toronto Freenet 
 has been a poor, sad, insupportable ghetto of complete, 
 soulless mediocrity. Who in their right mind would give one 
 penny to such a group? Noooobody.

 The solution to this moral crisis is to imbue the Toronto 
 Freenet with values that challenge and inspire us all. The 
 Toronto Freenet must champion the forefront of human rights, 
 civil liberties, freedom of expression and electronic license. 
 The Toronto Freenet must demand the best technology not the 
 worst leftovers and give our services away freely asking money 
 only from the rich, powerful and affluent who will, in turn 
 generously. The Toronto Freenet must be the leader of 
 the ethical debate, the example to follow, the defender of 
 community, individuality and truth. And then everyone will 
 throw their money, time and hearts into what should be the 
 premier Community Internet Access Provider of this city and 
 the world beyond: Toronto Freenet.                 BA 10/96

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 Tiered Access? NO WAY! ..................................3

 A proposal has been put forward by the past Board of
 Directors that a pay for use system be instituted at the
 Toronto Freenet. This would mean that if you wanted more
 than a minimum of services you would have to pay for it.

 This idea is completely at odds with the concept and
 practice of the Toronto Freenet. TFN has always offered
 free access to all services for all members. And this 
 situation is the one thing that should *NEVER* change.

 Charging fees inevitably means those with the least 
 income will not be able to participate fully. It also
 means a shift in importance and influence of those with
 the money. This stupid tiered access system means the TFN
 will be controlled by the whims of those who can afford to
 be on commercial ISP's. This is not the client base a group
 like TFN must serve.

 Instead of charging for services everything must remain 
 FREE. While limitations may be imposed on system access
 in respect to time on-line per day, etc. there must be no
 charges imposed. We must concentrate on fund raising, on 
 extracting donations from wealthy or employed members and
 on establishing corporate and government sources of funds.

 We must preserve the Toronto Freenet as a place for all
 citizans to come and participate in the knowledge revolution.
 Only by keeping TFN free for all can this goal be achieved.

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 TFN Mailing List ........................................4

 This is an announcement that a nonmoderated Mailing List on
 the subject of the Toronto Freenet past, present and future 
 is now open.   This mailing list will be open to anyone and 
 will be facilitated by Bob Allisat.  The discussion on this
 be be archived in the newsgroup <fcn.tor.tfn> Any questions
 or problems may be addressed to <tor@wtv.net> anytime.

  To subscribe to the TFN Mailing List send a message to:
 <majordom@lglobal.com>  In the body of that message enter:

           subscribe tfn <your E-mail address>

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  a message to <majordomo@lglobal.com>. In the body of that
  message enter "unsubscribe tfn <your E-Mail address>". If
  that doesn't work send a quick message to.. <tor@wtv.net> 

   When you are subscribed send to <tfn@lglbobal.com> to
   share your ideas with the others on the list. Thanks!

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 Toronto Freenet REPORTER                          1.11.96 

       TFN REPORTER is edited by Bob Allisat 1/11/96
           Send all submissions and comments to:
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