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RAIN 05/11: "They should just archive their e-mail on the Web"



Alternet.org 5/1/01
The Mystery of the 364th
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10821

by Geoffrey F.X. O'Connell
Were a thousand African-American soldiers gunned down by the Army in a
racially motivated shootout in 1943?
Were members of the controversial 364th (Negro) Infantry Regiment killed at
Mississippi's Camp Van Dorn to silence their relentless -- and sometimes
violent -- demands for equality in a segregated Army?
Were the bodies buried in a mass grave somewhere on the sprawling base or
"stacked like cordwood" and shipped north on boxcars?
That's a story that's been whispered since World War II. A Pentagon
spokesman sums up its 1999 probe of the allegation: "Nothing egregious
happened." But that isn't the end of it.
(see the following sites for previous postings concerning this story)
http://listserv.muohio.edu/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A2=ind9906A&L=archives&P=R8501

http://listserv.muohio.edu/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A2=ind9906B&L=archives&P=R7910


E&P Online 5/8/01
New laws restrict e-records from press
Newspapers battle for open access to records
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/050801n1.htm

by Todd Shields
Last fall, a public schools superintendent in Fishers, Ind., abruptly
resigned after just 11 weeks on the job. It turned out he had used a school
computer to visit sexually explicit sites. Indiana newspapers reported the
transgression.
The Indianapolis Star followed with a February story surveying Internet
usage by school superintendents statewide. It found they used school
computers for such nonscholastic tasks as shopping for cars and seeking
jobs. The Page One piece named names, too.


Daily Yomiuri 5/6/01
Osaka courts open disciplinary records
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010509wo33.htm

In an unprecedented move made at the request of The Yomiuri Shimbun, the
Osaka District and High courts disclosed Tuesday judiciary records of the
seven disciplinary measures meted out to their employees over the past five
years.


Des Moines Register 5/09/01
Doctor at prison ends bid to protect documents
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/14631457.html

by Tony Leys
A state prison doctor has dropped his attempt to keep an inmate from finding
out about his past.


Irish Times 5/9/01
Judge asked to examine documents
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0509/hom14.htm

by Joe Humphreys
Lawyers for the Irish Haemophilia Society have asked Judge Alison Lindsay to
determine if the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) is justified in
claiming privilege over confidential documents in its possession.


Toledo Blade 5/8/01
City records survive Petersburg inferno
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73061427537328&Av
is=TO&Dato=20010508&Kategori=NEWS19&Lopenr=105080021&Ref=AR

by Erica Blake
PETERSBURG - Dressed in a sooty sweatshirt and jeans, city Clerk Patricia
Hurst sifted through the charred remains of her desk and picked up a ceramic
mug caked with filth.


The Telegraph 5/9/01
Scots 'tried to set up Nazi alliance'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001468370263752&rtmo=aC9Tq65J&atmo=777777Ft
&pg=/et/01/5/9/nkew09.html

by Michael Smith
SCOTTISH nationalists attempted to set up a German-Scottish alliance against
England during the Second World War, according to MI6 files released today
to the Public Record Office at Kew.


Dallas Morning News 5/5/01
Van Zandt County restores scholastic records
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/lloydbockstruck/357351_tree_
05liv.ART.html

by Lloyd Bockstruck
When the Genealogical Society of Utah began filming the records in the
courthouses of Texas, they discovered a far greater variety in the types of
records than elsewhere in the South. As the reels of microfilm were
cataloged, family and local historians were thrilled at the rich array of
new materials available for research.


Washington Post 5/9/01
Bogus company targets hackers
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5822-2001May9.html

by Allison Linn
AP Business Writer
SEATTLE -- Invita Security Corp. looked like a typical Internet company: it
had offices, computers, employees, even a secure computer system. The only
thing missing was the customers.
Far from a failed startup, the aptly named Invita turned out to be a bogus
company set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ensnare a pair of
young Russian hackers accused of breaking into U.S. Internet companies'
computers, stealing financial and other sensitive data and demanding
extortion payments.


San Jose Mercury News 5/9/01
Photo exhibit puts a face on Indian tribes' struggle
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/indian09.htm

by Robert Gehrke
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- In the late 1800s, photographers accompanying railroad crews
and government expeditions to the West portrayed a vast landscape soon to be
conquered by settlers -- and the American Indians who stood in the way.


Sacramento Bee 5/9/01
Sudden detour for new licenses:
Drivers get wrong documents  in the mail after DMV goof.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local02_20010509.html

by Matthew Barrows
The California Department of Motor Vehicles sent as many as 3,000 new
driver's licenses and identification cards to the wrong addresses last week,
sparking complaints up and down the state from people who opened their mail
and discovered someone else's documentation.


Fort Worth Star Telegram 5/9/01
Euless may lose rights to Remembrance Park in tax auction
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:NE32/1:NE320508101.html

by Ellena Fortner
EULESS-- Scrambling over boulders, two 11-year-old boys searched through the
names and designs etched into the red rock.
"There's my name," Christopher Hankins said.


Los Angeles Times 5/9/01
The last emperor is raked over the coals again
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010509/t000039039.html

by Henry Chu
BEIJING--Royal-scandal watchers in the U.S. no longer need keep their opera
glasses trained across the Atlantic for juicy tales of sex, lies and palace
intrigue.
Now they can turn their gaze across the Pacific, where a nasty battle is
brewing over a tell-all book about China's last emperor--already
memorialized in an Oscar-winning movie--that was released in Beijing last
week to a breathless public.


Irish Independent 5/10/01
Judge rules out bid to scrutinise blood board documents
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ti=41&ca=9&si=430686&iss
ue_id=4452

by Paul Mellia
CONFIDENTIAL documents held by the Blood Transfusion Service Board will not
be examined by the Lindsay Tribunal following a ruling yesterday.
Tribunal chairperson Judge Alison Lindsay rejected an application from the
Irish Haemophilia Society that the documents which relate to legal advice
sought by the BTSB for the purposes of the tribunal were not sufficiently
described in a sworn affidavit by the deputy medical director, Dr Emer
Lawlor.


ABCNews.co 5/10/01
Private Business: Tech firms see new medical privacy rules as boon
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/medicalimaging010510.html

by Peter Dizikes
You go to a hospital in Los Angeles for a test. Later, your doctor e-mails
an image of your X-ray to a colleague in Boston for a useful second opinion.
Sounds great - but is your privacy assured?


Boston Globe 5/10/01
BRA record-keeping faulted
Review shows poor tracking of key documents
http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/130/metro/BRA_record_keeping_faulted+.shtml

by Stephanie Ebbert and Sarah Schweitzer
For a dozen years, city developers have been obliged to disclose their
investors so that the officials that approve the projects - and the public
at large - can root out any conflicts of interest.


Financial Gazette 5/10/01
Japanese warn Zim to act on theft of tender documents
http://www.fingaz.co.zw/fingaz/2001/May/May10/1620.shtml

TIME is running out for the Zimbabwe government to redeem itself by
identifying exactly what happened to tender documents for digital telephones
that went missing last month, it was learnt this week.


Associated Press 5/10/01
Gagarin's report sold at Christie's
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010510/13/int-russia-space-sale

by Anna Dolgov
MOSCOW (AP) - The mission report by Yuri Gagarin, sold at Christie's auction
house for $171,000, appears to have been stolen from a Russian government
organization, but details on the document's past remain a mystery, the head
of Russia's main archive service said Thursday.


GCN.com 5/08/01
GAO knocks Clinton administration's e-mail recordkeeping
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/4216-1.html

by Dennis Blank
The staffs of former President Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore did
a poor job of saving e-mail records, according to a General Accounting
Office report.


Intranet News 5/10/01
FormScape announces DocsOnline
http://intranetjournal.com/articles/200104/pna_04_18_01d.html

by Jennifer MacAdam
FormScape recently announced the launch of DocsOnline, an Internet-based
document distribution and storage tool for ERP and legacy systems.


Washington Times 5/10/01
IRS surfers hit sites for porn, chat
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010510-79738702.htm

Scripps Howard News Service
A sampling of Internal Revenue Service employees found they used about half
their online time at work to visit sex sites, gamble, trade stocks,
participate in chat rooms and do other non-work-related activity, the
Treasury Department´s inspector general said.


Los Angeles Times 5/10/01
Commentary: Call it the 'Quackenbush Act'
http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20010510/t000039335.html

The state's open records law is something of a farce. If a state department
does not want to give out information sought by the news media or any
citizen, all it has to do is declare that it's not in the public interest to
release it. This is done frequently, and the only recourse is to sue the
state. Such lawsuits are brought with frequency, and the state commonly
loses.


Idea House 5/9/01
Federal agencies regularly exchange personal information about Americans
http://www.ncpa.org/pd/govern/pd050901f.html

More than once every other week, a federal government agency quietly
announces a new plan to exchange and merge databases of personal information
about American citizens. Under the "Computer Matching and Privacy Protection
Act," they do this routinely, systematically -- and legally, according to a
report by a privacy advocacy organization called Privacilla.


Computer User 5/9/01
Cost of privacy legislation in "tens of billions"
http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/05/09/news8.html

by Brian Krebs
Web businesses would be forced to shell out as much as $100,000 apiece in
compliance costs if Congress passes online privacy legislation mandating
consumer access and enforcement provisions, according to a new study.


New York Times 5/10/01
Digital storage: Computer age gets a Valhalla
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/10/technology/10MUSE.html

by Katie Hafner
Moffett Field, Calif -- TWELVE years ago, Keith Uncapher, a computer
scientist at the RAND Corporation, was shocked to discover that the
Johnniac, a behemoth of a computer he had helped develop in the 1950's, had
been left out to rust in a parking lot behind the Museum of Science and
Industry in Los Angeles.


New York Times 5/10/01
Looking back at my first PC
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/10/technology/10BLUE.html

by John Markoff
TWENTY years ago, I bought my first personal computer.
I wasn't the earliest of adopters. There were already dozens of PC makers,
with names like Apple, Atari, Radio Shack and Texas Instruments. Though I
had been thinking about buying a computer for several years, I had never
been able to afford one. But in October 1981, newly employed, I drove to the
Computerland store in Los Altos, Calif., and paid about $3,000 for an I.B.M.
Personal Computer.



New York Times 5/10/01
Online Shopper: In throes of passion, a sniper is born
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/10/technology/10SHOP.html

by Michelle Slatalla
The green clock haunts me still. Night after night I lie awake and replay
the chain of tragic events that led me to love a green Art Deco kitchen
clock - and to lose it - when the clock went on sale on eBay a couple of
weeks ago.


New York Times 5/10/01
Screen grab: on the net, there is nothing like a dam
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/10/technology/10DAMS.html

by Michael Pollak
The  giant Western dams of the 20th century are a civics class and epic
novel in one. They are both public and private, each needing the other -
colossi that made the desert bloom, at a cost measured in sweat and
sometimes lives. A dam is not always concrete, but it is never abstract.


San Jose Mercury News 5/10/01
Searching for the last remaining Net freebies
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/modem10.htm

by David Plotnikoff
The candy store is now closed.
As you've probably noticed, many of the commercial Web ventures that made
their names giving away free content and services have either gone 404 or
are circling the drain. And those with a fighting chance for survival are
feverishly retooling their revenue models and jettisoning the freebies in
the face of unrelenting pressure to show immediate profits.


Seattle Times 5/10/01
Grand jury wants files of Alaska Airlines officials
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?s
lug=alaska10&date=20010510

by Steve Miletich
A federal grand jury investigating the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261
has subpoenaed computer files of 11 current and former Alaska officials.


Dallas Morning News 5/10/01
Resting in peace? Construction revives debate on location of first cemetery
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/362540_bigdig_10met.A.html

by David Flick
The Old Burial Ground, the first cemetery of the fledgling frontier village
of Dallas, lay forgotten for most of a century beneath the city's West End.
Its memory has been recently resurrected, if only among the city's small
circle of historians and preservationists, who are at odds about its exact
location.


Washington Post 5/10/01
Burst pipe inundates NASA photo archives
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6882-2001May9.html

by Kathy Sawyer
Water from a burst pipe has damaged or ruined thousands of historic NASA
images stored at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.


Washington Post 5/10/01
Loudoun unplugs e-mail on rezoning
Board tries to avoid sunshine law issues
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/A6447-2001May9.html

by Michael Laris
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors has sworn off using e-mail to
discuss its plans to slow growth, arguing that it is better to sacrifice the
ease of the Internet than risk accusations that it is skirting
open-government laws.

Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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